Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wheel was originally a large low breastshot type with wooden buckets , supplying the power for six sets of stones . |
| 2 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 3 | Religion was more a background , a context . |
| 4 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 5 | Religion was sometimes a mixture of Celtic , Roman and Christian beliefs and this affected the rites at death ceremonies . |
| 6 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 7 | This disappointment was all the more galling for the fact that the prime minister and eight other cabinet ministers had been his colleagues in the UDC ; and , unmollified by nomination for the Nobel peace prize , Morel became almost as bitter a critic of the Ramsay MacDonald government as of its predecessors . |
| 8 | Help had been so close — and the disappointment was all the greater for it . |
| 9 | The democratic element in the party 's thinking was mainly a conviction that ‘ the people must be right ’ , but popular views were indicated by the act of choosing every four or five years between the two major parties . |
| 10 | The Brigade was probably the first youth group to emphasize the specific nature of ‘ boyhood ’ and to develop a programme and a philosophy designed for this stage of life . |
| 11 | Springall was also a moneylender , a usurer . |
| 12 | By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters . |
| 13 | Since the claim arose out of government secrecy and since , in a free society , the press play an important role in ensuring the free flow of information , a journalist was arguably a particularly appropriate representative of the public interest . |
| 14 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 15 | Bira was never the same when he drove without Chula . ’ |
| 16 | It is of course the privilege of gods to control their apparent outward form , even to other gods ; the Fate of the discworld was currently a kindly man in late middle age , greying hair brushed neatly around features that a maiden would confidently proffer a glass of small beer to , should they appear at her back door . |
| 17 | In fact , correct me if I 'm wrong , but I think that Protestantism was originally an Alsatian Dogma . |
| 18 | , can I , can I just say , thank you Chairman , but could I just say on two three , I think that one of things that built the partnership was actually the launch of Ludlow , and that all those organizations were there , and helped part of the process , and I think one of the things we need to think about , Chairman , is now we 've got that B status , even though we 're arguing at the fringes , we 've actually got it , is perhaps doing another event like Ludlow , to involve all the organizations that , that , that will be participating in the programme , to give them a , so that they feel a , a common ownership of the programme , they can put forward the projects they want , they feel they are part of the process . |
| 19 | Even though it caught his eyes , so that he was actually watching when it happened , the figure that leapt from the blackness was only a silvery blur , moving with breathtaking and unreal speed . |
| 20 | As a result , the police force was rudimentary and inexperienced while the Belpan Defence Force was primarily a supplier of honour guards for the rare visitor of sufficient importance to warrant ceremony . |
| 21 | Julia 's bedroom was now the heart of the house with the family spending every possible moment with her , and although her face was almost fleshless she could always manage a smile to greet them . |
| 22 | Peter Jenkins , a seasoned political observer , writing in The Independent on 14 November , captured the mood among Conservatives with the comment that the speech polarised the forces for and against Mrs Thatcher to the extent that a contest was now the only way of resolving the divisions . |
| 23 | However , the time zone niche was also the basis for LIFFE 's introduction of US T-bond futures in 1986 and Japanese bond futures in 1988 . |
| 24 | Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties . |
| 25 | The language used by the president was also a shock to many , and the transcripts of the tapes were punctuated with the phrase " expletive deleted " . |
| 26 | The Edinburgh panel decided , however , that HLA alloimmunisation was simply a laboratory end point and that the evidence was inconclusive that filtered blood prevented platelet refractoriness and bleeding . |
| 27 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 28 | The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole . |
| 29 | According to Ali , the Ayasofya medrese was already a 60-akce medrese In Mehmed II 's time ; and it appears generally to have been the case that it and , from the time of Bayezid II , the medrese of Murad II in Bursa ( the Muradiye ) and , more particularly , that of Bayezid II himself in Edirne , completed in 893/1488 , ranked higher in the first half of the sixteenth century than the Sahn in the sense that the muderrises appointed to them were normally promoted from the Sahn . |
| 30 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |