Example sentences of "of [art] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her .
2 In the greatest matters , the universal testimony of the Church was the guarantee of truth .
3 Most prejudicial to the reputation of the Church was the sin of simony , the buying of something of spiritual value for money , such as ecclesiastical office or advancement , or charging for ordaining a clerk or for the performance of any other spiritual service .
4 Accompanying these changes in the policy and organisation of the church was the growth of new developments in theology , which have come to be known as the Theology of Liberation .
5 The home of the Ba was the body in the tomb , but it was able to go out freely and bring back life to the body and thus preserve the deceased 's identity on earth .
6 But it very The belt was there , now in the classroom the master had a desk and at the side of the desk was the belt .
7 Lo Cascio was said to have established links with Colombian and Venzuelan drug cartels , while the financial side of the operation was the work of Ulrich Bahl , a German businessman who for some months had been imprisoned in the USA on charges of passing forged banknotes .
8 The problem experienced when using actual income to measure expected income would disappear under this two-stage procedure , since the source of the problem was the correlation between v t and the measure used for .
9 The year of the council was the year of an eclipse ( HE 11 , 27 ) , which took place on 1 May 664 , and an outbreak of plague ( HE 111 , 27 ) .
10 More important was Pope John 's statement that the purpose of the Council was the aggiornamento of the Catholic Church .
11 At yesterday 's opening of the first multi-party parliament in 26 years , the president said that the management of the country was the responsibility of Kenyans and no-one else , and promised that his government would present its own economic strategy .
12 A notable casualty of the reshuffle was the Minister for Institutional Relations , Antoine Ntashamaje , who was dismissed apparently because his son had been linked to the rebel activity .
13 The keynote of the reshuffle was the dilution of the Falangist predominance visible until then .
14 The Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 24 stated that the main feature of the reshuffle was the replacement of three graduates of Chulachomklao Military Academy 's Class 5 , the powerful graduating group of 1958 led by Suchinda and former army commander Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi .
15 The centre of the revolt was the village of Donja Stubica , some 24 km ( 15 miles ) north of Zagreb .
16 The major development of the session was the introduction of Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) .
17 The distant border of the enclosure was the river itself , sweeping in serpentine curves round the perimeter .
18 Up two steps on the right of the lobby was the lounge , with its ancient piano .
19 For offences against the moral code , the Church in the person of the parson was the confessor and imposed the penalty , though if the behaviour was particularly offensive ( e.g. adultery ) or pernicious ( e.g. heresy , witchcraft ) , then it would be brought before the archdeacon or the bishop to hear in his court .
20 At the far end of the Corniche was the boat-yard where felucca ferries came and went delivering people and goods from outlying villages .
21 One of the lighter aspects of the tour was the plight of the hamburger salesmen ; lighter moment providing you are n't a hamburger salesman , that is .
22 A notable feature of the temple was the unobtrusiveness of its entrances .
23 I would say the highlight of the retreat was the night walk .
24 And during his dark night of the soul while he was at Cuddesdon , part of the darkness was the behaviour of the House of Commons .
25 The most impressive interior space of the mill was the engine room , from which power was transmitted to each floor by means of a rope-race that used cotton ropes of local manufacture .
26 Towards the centre of the chamber was the reality in the midst of illusion — real pillowy furniture , a real fountain and pool in rainbow colours , real near-naked nymphs playing in the water …
27 The most obvious direct result of the treaty was the repossession by the Habsburgs of Hungary , Transylvania and the Turkish occupied areas of Slavonia and Croatia .
28 The signing of the treaty was the highlight of a two-day visit by Kohl to Prague and Bratislava .
29 The chairman of the Supreme Soviet , Anatoly Lukyanov , said that the approval of the Treaty was the prerogative of the republics .
30 Of particular concern to most of the members of the FFA was the effect of the drift-netters on the albacore tuna resource , which plays a major role in many Pacific economies .
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