Example sentences of "was [art] [noun] itself " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he writes , ‘ it was the revolution itself … that first exempted the individual from moral responsibility . ’ |
| 2 | The only defender of Islam in Tunisia was the state itself , he added . |
| 3 | It was the school itself , and the hope of seeing again that handful of teachers who make a difference in anybody 's life . |
| 4 | Winner number two was the branch itself — for the competition produced 17 warm leads in just one week . |
| 5 | In power , it never occurred to him , just as it did not occur to Mr Gorbachev until it was too late , that it was the system itself that was rotten through and through . |
| 6 | Worse still , the epicentre of labour militancy was the capital itself . |
| 7 | By the time it reached London , what seemed to be missing most of all was the play itself . |
| 8 | The distant border of the enclosure was the river itself , sweeping in serpentine curves round the perimeter . |
| 9 | In the end , all I had to go on was the gallery itself . |
| 10 | Not only was the libretto itself being written in Salzburg , but a translation into German was also undertaken there . |
| 11 | Now how how was the army itself organized , did you was it in the in the normal normal sense of the army |
| 12 | She accepted the offer gratefully , feeling the train slow down even more as it cruised into the vast amphitheatre of concrete and glass that was the terminus itself . |
| 13 | It was the flood itself which often ensured the rich grazing . |
| 14 | At first he had thought that he could write a plain , exact verse with no figurative language , in which a yellow chair was the thing itself , a yellow chair , as a round gold apple was an apple or a sunflower a sunflower . |
| 15 | The only protection they had was the car itself . |
| 16 | It was the war itself which convinced him that economic planning by the State was necessary to prevent a return to mass unemployment . |
| 17 | And was the area itself er with the adults concerned , were the police often involved with them ? |
| 18 | … She asked why Blanche did not like my book and I kindly suggested that perhaps it was the woman being scarred from a motor accident which she did n't like ( it was the book itself ) . |
| 19 | Those who prefer the second view are , however , in this difficulty : that it was the Movement itself that took the decision to reduce its ambitions to the more narrowly ameliorative and unobjectionable . |
| 20 | What was n't in doubt , however , was the process itself , and even for the 1961–71 period , Champion ( 1976 ) was able to conclude that a marked acceleration had taken place in the rate of outward movement , from the conurbations and large towns , to surrounding areas , and that remote rural areas like the southwest and Wales had either reversed a century-long decline in population , or had reduced it significantly . |
| 21 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 22 | It was the show itself that was garbage . |
| 23 | However , it was the agreement itself — evidence of the objective intentions of the parties — which the Court of Appeal viewed as the most important . |
| 24 | The first of these was the Secession itself . |
| 25 | In his famous pamphlet of 1789 , What is the Third Estate ? , the Abbe Sieyes proclaimed that the third estate , the commons , was not one order alongside the two others , the nobility and clergy , but was the nation itself . |
| 26 | We know then that the legend is false and that it became attached to a much older custom , but what was the Horngarth itself and for what purpose was it erected ? |
| 27 | The only thing he got wrong — admittedly quite a big thing ! — was the explanation itself . |
| 28 | Far ahead of Sharpe was the crossroads itself where the dark mass of fugitives was milling in confusion , while to the right , and acting somewhat as another bastion , was a smaller wood and a handful of cottages . |
| 29 | However , the court agreed with the views expressed obiter by another division of the court in the case of Emerson ( 1990 ) 92 Cr.App.R. 284 ; where a transcript was provided it was merely a means of presenting the exhibit , which was the tape itself , to the court : if the jury wished to hear the tape rather than rely on the written transcript , there was no proper reason why they should not be allowed to do so . |
| 30 | It was held that they could , as it was the tape itself which was the evidence at the trial ( rather than . |