Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 2 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 3 | Held , granting the applications and remitting the case to the magistrates , the essence of the defence case was an allegation that the prosecutor had dishonestly contrived to manipulate the prosecution process so as to avoid the consequences of the legislation which brought the applicants within the custody time limit regulations . |
| 4 | The budget deficit was a moderate 4.3 per cent , helping to make Belarus 's economic performance one of the best in the former Soviet Union . |
| 5 | One paradoxical consequence of central government limits to rate support grant was a real-money leap in business rates in some areas , and a sizeable increase in the proportion of local budgets paid through rates by the business community . |
| 6 | But the NETRHA story was a different one entirely . |
| 7 | The cost of the rail link was a paltry £12million and all but three million pounds had been found elsewhere . |
| 8 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 9 | But communism communism was a form of Antichrist . |
| 10 | A more recent study in the allergy field was a double-blind placebo-controlled pilot trial of the efficacy of mixed pollen 30C in hay fever . |
| 11 | Almost difficult to believe , but Beighton station level crossing was the first on the GCR out of London . |
| 12 | The primary reason for the failure of the CAFFE trial was the enormous skilled effort needed to prepare the flow charts . |
| 13 | Until the rise of factory industry , framework knitting was a cottage industry , and in Calverton ( in Windles Square and elsewhere ) , Ruddington ( q.v. ) and many other Midland towns and villages , knitters ' cottages can still be seen . |
| 14 | In the second case money was the prime factor , both its getting and spending ; it created an artificial environment . |
| 15 | Monetarists argued that excessive growth in the money stock was the root cause of the inflationary problem , and that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment was at best temporary . |
| 16 | Wenlock Manor was a small Georgian country house , which had been sold as a hotel twenty years ago . |
| 17 | A skilful dealer may get considerably more money than that out of the punter by implying , sometimes even saying directly , that this OTC stock was a better buy even than Rolls Royce . |
| 18 | The electronic billboard with its tacky Stardust effect was the ultimate nothing , an entity written entirely in light . |
| 19 | Firstly , the chart parser was an existing framework , originally developed for use in the syntactic domain , but also used in other areas of the speech chain , e.g. acoustic-phonetic analysis ( Church 1983 ) It was specifically designed for automatically building a graph of possibilities , these possibilities being determined by the component knowledge sources , not by the parser . |
| 20 | The specific focus of the Loughborough University research was the effect of the national curriculum on secondary school libraries . |
| 21 | THE general election result was a defeat for the BBC , the higher thinkers , the opinion polls — and the Liberal Democrats who once again have been exposed as a hollow shell . |
| 22 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 23 | Well the election agent was the man responsible for getting that data through to the , the candidate to say that you 're speaking at a meeting , such and such a night , and another meeting at such and such so keeping the , keeps that candidate on his toes , all the time , during an election campaign until election 's over and then of course er you know what transpires after that I su it 's either |
| 24 | Following the completion of the Gymnasium , the next major step in the building programme was a Hall , with Harrison as architect again . |
| 25 | A DOPEY thief thought the hologram of William Shakespeare on a stolen cheque card was a mugshot of the OWNER . |
| 26 | Despite the predominance of the medical faculty in attracting research grants , the unit with the largest contract turnover was the archaeology department . |
| 27 | Better than expected , the February current-account deficit was £1.4 billion ; the trade deficit figure was the same — net invisibles vanished . |
| 28 | The development of Gedge and Solowka to The Wedding Present was a much more intricate and lengthy affair . |
| 29 | The later success of The Wedding Present was no surprise because Gedge 's belief in himself made it inevitable , rather than just a possibility . |
| 30 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |