Example sentences of "of a [adj] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bringing of a criminal accusation was an open act , and its results were much more clear-cut because the punishment , if any , was publicly proclaimed . |
| 2 | The dock of a criminal court was a long way from the line ups Guppy is used to . |
| 3 | We must build and restore and this is possible even now , if only it were understood that the former dependence of museums on the resources of a criminal state was an abomination which there would be no shame in abandoning . |
| 4 | Conduct of a criminal investigation was the responsibility of a prosecuting lawyer , not of the police . |
| 5 | On the branch of a tall pine was a colourful small bird . |
| 6 | Staring at me through the branches of a twisted thorn was a tawny owl perched on a rock ledge . |
| 7 | One fact that was used to support the idea of a recent origin was the recognition that the human race is obviously evolving in culture and technology . |
| 8 | He ended by saying that the prospect of a Labour government was a beacon of hope for millions of striving and oppressed people throughout the world . |
| 9 | At the time of my infarct I was three stone overweight , smoked 60 cigarettes a day , hated health food ; my idea of a perfect dinner was a plateful of greasy cholesterol . |
| 10 | This reminder of a living bedroom was the shaft of an arrow cleaving an accurate way through time . |
| 11 | Mme Catherine Lalumière , secretary general of the Council of Europe , explains : ‘ Adoption of the Council as the framework for the Pharmacopoeia rather than the creation of a European pharmacopoeia was a quite deliberate choice . |
| 12 | Opposition members in parliament said the proposal of a temporary name was a diplomatic failure and demanded the resignation of Mr Gligorov and the foreign minister , Denko Maleski . |
| 13 | It shows that for those people without work and looking for a job , the ending of a temporary job was the second most important reason for having left their last employment . |
| 14 | Amongst those men who had had a job immediately before registration , the coming to an end of a temporary job was the most important reason for their becoming unemployed . |
| 15 | Does he accept that one of the reasons for the United Kingdom 's continued possession of a strategic deterrent was the fact that it would provide another centre of power , and thus create disequilibrium in the mind of a potential foe ? |
| 16 | Probably his supposed intention was a pure fiction of the monks ' imagination , but the remembrance of a lost opportunity was a heavy burden for them as they watched their rights being pared away under successive kings and archbishops . |
| 17 | The one major restriction upon the usefulness of Indian patronage to the manager of a political interest was the fact that it was restricted to the young . |
| 18 | The building of a new city was the middle-aged Emperor 's bid for immortality . |
| 19 | The Commission took the view that the responsibility of a legal service was the provision of legal advice and assistance to individuals , that community action tends to involve only one section of the community , and that the independence of a centre is compromised if it becomes a base for campaigns . |
| 20 | The pressure of a long queue was the most frequent cause for stress mentioned in the West Midlands survey of volunteers . |
| 21 | If the cost of a practical system was the abandonment of the guiding principle of the law of trusts , so be it . |
| 22 | Two months later , the designation of a single leader was a means to that end , not an end in itself . |
| 23 | The overthrow of a Foreign Secretary was a considerable achievement for a popular agitation , but this was to be the limit of the peace Ballot 's success . |
| 24 | But in addition , as the case of Exeter illustrated , the difficulty of containing the soaring running costs of a declining institution was an obvious concern . |
| 25 | The favourite illustration of a public good was the lighthouse : the conditions of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption were both met , and it was obvious that if governments did not provide lighthouses nobody would . |
| 26 | An important addition to the concept of a linear scale was the ‘ law of parallelism ’ advocated by J. F. Meckel ( 1781–1833 ) and Etienne Serres ( 1786–1868 ) . |
| 27 | The creation of a powerful State thus preceded the creation of a popular nationalism for these countries ( in contrast to most later cases ) , and , indeed , one could say that the manufacture of a popular patriotism was an instrument for the consolidation of State power here . |
| 28 | Shaking off the very idea of a German father was a wriggle of the shoulders , the thin cotton sleeves pushed down . |
| 29 | Of a different nature was a proposal from Enfield College of Technology , the first such to be considered , for a part-time BA in Social Science for qualified teachers . |