Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cowen & Co was the lead underwriter . |
| 2 | It is immaterial for how much the car was being hired or bought , or how much credit was involved , and equally it is immaterial whether the hirer or buyer was a body corporate . |
| 3 | In a post-war climate where nationalisation was the key component in the economic sphere , and reorganisation and rationalisation of what already existed the most characteristic feature of social policy , ‘ planning ’ failed to dislodge the established administrative systems or to overcome the temptation to make do with ad hoc measures . |
| 4 | Cathy Wallis , a computer programmer , believes the policy has improved the quality of her working life and would definitely think twice about accepting a job where smoking was the norm . |
| 5 | At the same time we argued that private morality or immorality was a private affair and therefore that ‘ there must remain a realm of private morality or immorality which is … not the law 's business ’ . |
| 6 | Stretched out on it , feet on the handlebars and head on the pillion seat or carrier was a young man , fast asleep , with his hands under his head . |
| 7 | On 4th June 1832 after much agitation , debate and difficulty the Reform Bill became law ; that this happened EXPLICIT peacefully without revolution or dictatorship was a major achievement . |
| 8 | For Leese , the Nordic or Aryan was the sole creator of culture and civilization . |
| 9 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 10 | Its call to Israel to facilitate repatriation or compensation was an affirmation of the human rights of the situation , but did not reflect the pragmatic expectation . |
| 11 | In the eleventh and twelfth centuries to build in stone , granite or marble was a prodigious undertaking , particularly if the area concerned did not possess the materials close to hand . |
| 12 | Some kind of graduated assessment or testing was a feature of 14 of the schemes . |
| 13 | These findings agree with a previous study of diabetic neuropathy where constipation was the most common gastrointestinal symptom . |
| 14 | In Harvey ( 1981 ) 72 Cr App R 139 , the Court of Appeal held that whether a threat to kill , rape or maim was a proper means of reinforcing the demand was a question for the jury , as was the question whether the accused believed that he had reasonable grounds . |
| 15 | The rebel or traitor was a destabilising influence , whose bad example might tempt others to emulate him . |
| 16 | In the end , success or failure was a matter not of sex , but of personality and political intelligence . |
| 17 | The incentive to develop the mechanical clock may well have been fostered by the need for it in medieval monasteries , where punctuality was a virtue that was rigorously insisted on and late arrival at divine service or meals was punished . |
| 18 | However , the Leeds system has been criticised on various grounds , the major complaint being that repeated adjournment of individual cases , and randomised outcomes to test whether adjournment or supervision was the more effective , was illegal . |
| 19 | The purpose of these questions was to try to get some sense of the spaces occupied by each discipline , how well that space was defined , and to what extent disciplinary identity or integrity was a matter of epistemological structure ( unifying theories , concepts , methods , etc. ) or a more elusive matter of disciplinary ‘ culture ’ , involving academic norms , ethos or styles . |
| 20 | After dark , reading or writing was a difficult operation . |
| 21 | The state or polis was a whole , of which individuals were parts , dependent upon it and not self-sufficient , as the individual is often conceived to be in modern liberal thought . |
| 22 | Books about sex , illustrated guides to love-making , are also popular and are still considered as novelties in a society where such books have rarely been seen before and where sex was a taboo subject . |
| 23 | The arrival of a letter from a son or daughter was an event in which tears of relief were mixed with tears of sorrow , and the news was shared with the whole community . |
| 24 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 25 | As its critics feared , the legislation quickly established an area of production where cheapness was the only important criterion , with film being treated as so many yards of celluloid filled with moving figures . |
| 26 | Under previous legislation , it was a defence for the publisher to show that his intention was to publish only to members of a private association or group of which the publisher or distributor was a member . |
| 27 | For the Evangelicals , the prospect of heaven or hell was a major source of motivation in their attempts to ‘ form the minds ’ of their children . |
| 28 | What might be called ‘ external ’ interpretation or construction was the subject of Section 2 : jurists resort to construction , when there is evidently an intention on the part of a testator to achieve some object by means of some legal institution , in order to embody that intention in a legal framework . |
| 29 | A gamble or a bet or wager was a way of life to the men of the village , and often a wager would be made at work or whilst drinking in the local . |
| 30 | These bounds often show that a particular parish , township , or tithing was the same in the tenth century as in the nineteenth , and we become aware of the remarkable persistence of boundaries . |