Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early mosques , the focal point for prayer was a sacred stone ( the qibla ) , which was set in a wall facing Mecca ; it later became customary to enclose this stone within an arch-shaped niche known as a mihrab , or prayer niche . |
| 2 | The catalyst for change was the so-called ‘ Agreement ’ signed between the Government and the Stock Exchange in 1983 . |
| 3 | The price they paid for admission was the sacrifice of industrial democracy : Co-operation by largely foregoing the promotion of Industrial Co-operation , trade unionism by making the maintenance or improvement of their members ' working conditions the prime object . |
| 4 | The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation was an international organisation established by agreement for the purpose of building up an arms industry for the benefit of its member States . |
| 5 | It decided that the criterion for liability for damage was the reasonable foreseeability of the injury . |
| 6 | Mum What about story was a bit like that . |
| 7 | The solution of the Cadiz liberals for the colonial desire for self-government was the concession of full political rights to American citizens within a unified empire ; the colonies were an integral part of metropolitan Spain and would be ‘ freed ’ , with the same constitution that gave Spain herself freedom . |
| 8 | Just as the search for co-ordination was a central rallying call for urban projects and experiments in the 1970s — with the creation of the Comprehensive Community Programmes and Partnerships — so the 1980s saw similar developments . |
| 9 | The outcome of these parallel strands of support for municipalization was a growth , especially from the early 1890s , of municipal ownership of public utilities such as gas and water supplies and public transport , and municipal provision of such services as libraries , museums , baths , wash-houses and improved street lighting and refuse disposal . |
| 10 | The unit I had for review was the wrist mounted version which had a rubber strap with a built in expander . |
| 11 | Richard Lambert , editor of the FT , says the decision to go for Labour was a collective one taken with senior colleagues , although he did write the article himself . |
| 12 | One critical aspect of the overall decline in the demand for labour was the discrimination that older workers believed employers exercised against them and in favour of younger ones . |
| 13 | In the short term though what was crucial for labour was the offer of more secure living standards . |
| 14 | The force working most clearly for uniformity was the growth in the child population , and since that was itself not uniform it was uneven in its effects . |
| 15 | His final act as President was the appointment of a transitional military government , headed by the Maronite Christian Army Commander Gen. Michel Aoun to replace the government of Selim al Hoss . |
| 16 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 17 | The first person the majority of the sample ( 90 per cent ) turned to for help was the family practitioner . |
| 18 | He had once said that he did n't know whether his passion for water-power was a result of meanness or had some deeper Freudian significance . |
| 19 | That stuff about exercise was a bit of a fibette , I admit — I 'm sure I 'd collapse from jogger 's nipple climbing into my Nikes . |
| 20 | The only monitor for management was the market . |
| 21 | Seventy five percent of solving the problem because the big problem for capacity was the in-bound on a Saturday morning which , of course , will be solved now |
| 22 | Meanwhile , a wide variety of courts administered a wide variety of laws all over western Europe ; and if one asked a man in any part of Europe to whose law he was subject , he might well have answered ‘ to my law ’ — for law was a personal thing , which a man might carry about with him ; it bound him to the courts to which his ancestors had been subject , to the laws of those courts , and gave him the privileges which those courts provided . |
| 23 | Thus the portion of the site that was chosen for clearance was the upper half of the southerly track together with the base area of the former engine house . |
| 24 | The desire for peace was the increasingly dominant and constant theme of popular opinion . |
| 25 | The first party to campaign for independence was the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons ( NCNC ) founded by Dr Namdi Azikiwe in 1945 . |
| 26 | It was at that stage , Sir , that Mrs Brown made a claim for benefit to support herself and her eleven year old son and so that claim for benefit was a perfectly legitimate one . |
| 27 | Observers of inner-city youth noted that along with smoking and clothes , talking about sport was the main amusement of lads on the street-corner . |
| 28 | But the lust for escape was a powerful one and the fact that escape was possible made the idea a great stimulus whether you got away or not . |
| 29 | The conversation during lunch was a little more relaxed . |
| 30 | The February play was A Thriller of the Year , with an all-female cast our original choice of play was A Death Trap we could n't cast it because of a lack of men auditioning . |