Example sentences of "'s [adj] [noun sg] was [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Dr Ali 's right hand was a book entitled Basic Mathematics for Schools . |
| 2 | She looked up to the skyline , where Scathach 's tall form was a silhouette . |
| 3 | Wastell 's greatest work was the completion of King 's College chapel in Cambridge , begun early in 1508 for Henry VII and completed in 1515 . |
| 4 | Nowak 's attempted assassin was a woman . |
| 5 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 6 | Hess 's outstanding contribution was the suggestion that new oceanic crust is actually generated at a mid-ocean ridge , and spreads out laterally away from it . |
| 7 | Geoff 's continual nosiness was an irritation . |
| 8 | Roth 's crowning achievement was the editorship of the Encyclopaedia Judaica , which he held from 1965 . |
| 9 | Glenn Hoddle 's free kick was the start of the next goal . |
| 10 | Rosa 's old place was a couple of hundred metres away . |
| 11 | In every respect Britain 's foreign policy was a failure : it failed to do anything which would strengthen the declining influence of the League of Nations ; it failed to prevent the alliance of Italy and Germany : it failed to stop German expansion , and in the last resort , it failed to prevent the agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union which neutralized the Eastern Front for nearly two years . |
| 12 | It meant also that the consideration which more and more came to dominate the Dual Monarchy 's foreign policy was the need to check Russian influence over the Slavs of the Balkans . |
| 13 | For over three years the Labour Party 's foreign policy was an attempt , only partially successful , to accommodate this view with the Party 's traditional pacifism and distrust of Conservative governments . |
| 14 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 15 | Imagining his Sara ‘ all oppressed with gloom ’ , Coleridge 's spontaneous reply was a poem set in the descriptive frame of an evening visit to Shurton Bars , the coastal area lying beyond a rich tract of open fields to the north of Shurton Court . |
| 16 | If , however , her main dislike of Ken 's sexual behaviour was the way it coloured his career , then she has perhaps cause for concern . |
| 17 | However , Victoria 's weekly bath was a ritual , a ceremonial , absorbing all Aunt Margaret 's attention and taking up a great deal of time , and Melanie was by herself in the kitchen , which was warm and smug and complacent since its work was finished for the day . |
| 18 | Macari 's public image was a satirist 's gift . |
| 19 | The Union 's guiding principle was the need for the local community itself to take charge of the process whereby health priorities were set and met . |
| 20 | In Michoacán , a poor agricultural state with a radical tradition , the PRI 's principal opponent was the Party of the Democratic Revolution ( PRD ) led by Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano . |
| 21 | Suragai 's second wife was a N'pani , tiny , beautiful , regal , whom men called the Golden Lotus . |
| 22 | The civil court appearance was Finnegan 's second brush was the law in ten days . |
| 23 | The new right 's second front was the construction of a modern image for the movement . |
| 24 | Macmillan 's second report was a letter dated 18 May " to Sir James Grigg , Secretary of State for War , also found at Birch Grove [ KP 178 ] . |
| 25 | Mosanat 's ethnic base was the Hadjerai from mountainous central Chad . |
| 26 | The nation 's real shield was the navy . |
| 27 | The book says that Eliot 's truest poetry was a form of plagiarism , in the benign sense that ‘ it was only in response to other poetry that Eliot could express his own deepest feelings ’ . |
| 28 | McAllister 's 1st goal was a penalty , and his 2nd goal which was the equalizer was from a very tight angle . |
| 29 | Wigg 's resentment against Profumo related to some answer that Profumo had given in 1962 to a question about British troops overseas , which to Wigg 's unbendable mind was an untruth . |
| 30 | The AOC 's personal assistant was an airman like myself and he warned me not to stand on the mat in front of his desk . |