Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response was a forgery purporting to be a letter from Gregori Zinoviev , president of the Third International in Moscow , to the British Communist Party , urging it to promote revolution and to foment mutiny in the armed forces . |
| 2 | The response was a tightening up of Poor Law policy from 1871 . |
| 3 | She stroked behind a velvet ear ; the response was a loud purring . |
| 4 | Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s . |
| 5 | er , if you just to avoid doubt , it looks as though , as we presume we go back to one , three , four that 's less than the income was the revenue from things like the guest room and er the lounge and so on , you see ? |
| 6 | Condensation : the first time I used the tent was a still moonlit evening . |
| 7 | The sticking-point was the continuing legacy of the Contagious Diseases Acts , and the wider fear that the profession was still sunk in ‘ blind materialism ’ . |
| 8 | In fact , the only bird of prey I ever saw hovering over the park was a kestrel . |
| 9 | The Park was a small thing below , and the Zoo an even smaller part of it . |
| 10 | And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world . |
| 11 | At yesterday 's hearing Mr Robert McCartney , QC , who is representing the objectors , pointed out that the park was a unique combination of shoreline walks , a beach and wooded areas widely used by local people . |
| 12 | The fountain in the park was an enchantment , with the orchestra at the beginning iridescent , all seen in reflection from afar . |
| 13 | Besides being the only decent covered area at ‘ The Tip ’ , the stand was a local landmark , and although not in the same class perhaps as the Eiffel Tower , it was held in great affection by nearby residents . |
| 14 | The only new product on the stand was the RA2000 Escort , which now wo n't be in the UK until November after what Ford described as an ‘ unfinished development programme ’ slowed things down . |
| 15 | Making its debut and dominating the stand was the brand new First 53f5 , born of a collaboration between naval architect Bruce Farr , and stylist Pininfarina , with Bénéteau themselves contributing a considerable amount of production engineering technology . |
| 16 | The Sanhedrin was the highest court of Jewish law . |
| 17 | The origin of the Sanhedrin was the seventy men Moses appointed to assist him in judging the people of Israel . |
| 18 | The Sanhedrin was the official court of Jewish justice ( see chapter 1 ) . |
| 19 | The conscious articulation of the ideology was a product both of political crisis — the fear of social disintegration for which the breakdown of familial and sexual order became a striking metaphor — and of the self-development of an increasingly dominant class . |
| 20 | He declared that the boiler was a straightforward Stephenson saturated design which could n't really be improved . |
| 21 | The remainder was the yield on various customs and excise duties levied primarily on beer , spirits , wines , tobacco , cocoa and other ‘ luxury ’ items which varied a little from budget to budget . |
| 22 | ‘ I messed around with it and got into this thing of splitting up the amps because I always thought that the guitar was a bit flat in mono . |
| 23 | When I was 15 , my handicap was 1 , so in my teenage years sport was my main thing and the guitar was a hobby . |
| 24 | Because it solved a business problem , the reduction was a step forward . |
| 25 | The beard was a kind of super beard , a beard to end all beards , a great reprise on some of the world 's finest and most significant beards . |
| 26 | The link was a woman : she lived with the allies , raised their children , arranged further marriages between them and her brothers ' children . |
| 27 | Although the arrival of Harry was a break in the gloom , the Prince was a prickly man to live with . |
| 28 | The events at Stony Stratford clearly took the political community by surprise , and their reaction makes it likely that the seizure of the prince was a pre-emptive strike by Gloucester rather than ( as Mancini 's scenario would suggest ) a retaliation for his exclusion from power . |
| 29 | The very brief account she gave now was selective — it referred to Anna but not to Anna 's story ; Rome was a place of origin ; there was no mention of a Mena or a Mr James ( Simon she could not entirely subdue ) , the prince was a bare name . |
| 30 | He knew the Prince was a connoisseur of luxury , deeply influenced by the new designs from the prosperous Italian states . |