Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that burglary was the clincher . |
| 2 | This trend was partially reversed in the years after 1885 because many officials felt that the prison regime was too lenient and that flogging was the only effective deterrent to crime . |
| 3 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 4 | Certainly it was popular in Hellenistic and Roman times , and as a free-standing statue was no doubt a late idea ; but the idea could very well have been suggested by such fifth-century pediment-statues as these . |
| 5 | Another Israeli concession was the presence at the negotiating table of Feisal Husseini , the unofficial lieutenant of the PLO leader , Yasser Arafat , in the occupied territories and a resident of Jerusalem . |
| 6 | I mean that kitchen was a major job |
| 7 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 8 | Despite being the aim of many state pension schemes , the breaking of the link between old age and low income was a real possibility with SERPS . |
| 9 | To ensure that this progressive building was a success , it was essential –hat a supply of completely manufactured parts was on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 10 | In this era , it is widely accepted that collectivism was an ideal cultural trait which could be harnessed to the growth of aggressive nationalism . |
| 11 | The historic award was the first fatal accident claim to be started after the MoD lost its immunity from law suits in 1987 . |
| 12 | The most striking change was the presence of a manual which describes policies and practices of the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress , offers advice on classing difficult areas and explains how to choose between related numbers . |
| 13 | Coming now from , down to more specific ways of winning new work , due diligence was an initiative which we wanted to er tackle but not only in this office across the country and across the northern region . |
| 14 | The bull was a manifestation of Poteidan , and dancing with the most powerful god in the Minoan pantheon was no light matter . |
| 15 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 16 | At first that fight was an uphill struggle . |
| 17 | As we have seen , he had declined commissions to write further historical or religious dramas on the lines of Murder in the Cathedral : as far as he was concerned , that play was a " dead end " . " |
| 18 | Mixed-ability teaching was a principle fairly widely accepted , at least for children in their first year at secondary school , but in some schools for far longer . |
| 19 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 20 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 21 | The fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage . |
| 22 | That lane was a delight . |
| 23 | That Forster and the local Nazis knew as much is evidenced by the fact that the 1935 election was the dirtiest and most dubious of the Danzig NSDAP 's victories . |
| 24 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 25 | Now furthermore , if we look at what was happening to the population itself , remember that under the economic basis of looking at determinants of demand , we saw that income was a crucial factor . |
| 26 | One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned . |
| 27 | The score for each trial was the number of correct letters of the trigram given in the right position . |
| 28 | In neither case was a child resistant lid contraindicated . |
| 29 | In neither case was the customer owner of the goods at the time he disposed of them . |
| 30 | Only two patients with low grade or mixed grade disease died , but in neither case was the cause related to lymphoma . |