Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It can be seen , therefore , that there has been a nucleated village at Wharram Percy for only 400 years or so out of at least 2000 years , and that , in effect , the village as a form of settlement was an aberration , the single farm being the normal settlement from which the land was worked . |
| 3 | Corresponding to the dramatic acceleration in the stock of money was an equally dramatic acceleration in the rate of inflation . |
| 4 | The new pattern of variety was an adornment to what Michael Chanan has called ‘ the night-time city ’ , and the whole beauty of the format was that everything took place not in sordid cellars or popular drinking places but in buildings that had much of the appearance and many of the conventions of legitimate theatre . |
| 5 | The health service and its level of funding was an inevitable issue . |
| 6 | One fairly obvious analogy is the type of case considered by this court in In re Chase ( No. 2 ) [ 1989 ] 1 N.Z.L.R. 345 where , following in particular the decision of the Privy Council in Tampion v. Anderson [ 1973 ] 3 A.L.R. 414 , the view was taken that an order dismissing an action on the ground that there was no reasonable cause of action was an interlocutory judgment and that therefore no appeal lay as of right . |
| 7 | We agreed that the lack of action was an outrage and that we had to draw people 's attention to it . |
| 8 | Parallel to the highly-publicised excesses of punk was an equally important but historically invisible development , the growth of black popular culture , particularly the development of soul music . |
| 9 | On Louis 's part , the offer of patronage was an imaginative strategy for dealing with the Danes where conquest was simply not an option . |
| 10 | What eventually emerged from Labour 's contemplation of the entrails of defeat was an increasingly widespread belief — not , until recently , much shared on the left — that public ownership was not the essence of Labour 's case , but that equality was . |
| 11 | What one found in the stricter forms of feudalism was an attempt to organize landed wealth more directly and coherently for the recruitment of knights . |
| 12 | The physical result of this apathy and lack of zest was an inability to raise the sugar concentration in the blood . |
| 13 | The only hint of self-indulgence was an oak , leather-topped desk in the middle of the room . |
| 14 | The end product of this highly devolved system of decision-making was an escalating penal crisis that was stubbornly resistant in the face of attempts at reform . |
| 15 | The mating instinct allied to fear of loneliness was an irresistible combination , concluded the sergeant , gazing round the pub to conceal his irritation . |
| 16 | One indication of the widening appeal of pacifism was an upsurge of agitation among working-class women . |
| 17 | By the nineteenth century the reign of law was an attractive idea to those inside the sciences and out ; but the laws of nature had come to seem not merely unchanging but also inevitable . |
| 18 | Here the subject of farce was an English public school and the problems that follow when a beautiful female French teacher arrives and causes a sensation . |
| 19 | Enforcement of prohibition was an impossible task as " speak easies " ( illegal drinking places ) mushroomed and an absurdly small force of ill-paid Federal agents tried to discover and close them down . |
| 20 | Marx 's philosophical anthropology or theory of human nature was inherited from German romanticism , but what distinguished Marx was his belief that the development of capitalism was an essential precondition of human flourishing under communism . |
| 21 | The initial public response to the outbreak of war was an upsurge of patriotic fervour , at any rate among the middle and upper classes : the Kadet leadership in the Duma called for a political truce and national unity against the common enemy . |
| 22 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 23 | Mr Coase 's favourite case of externality was an American icon , the wood-burning locomotive — whose sparks , regrettably , were prone to set fire to farmers ' fields . |
| 24 | His subsequent promotion to the rank of brigadier was an indication of the growing military co-operation between Canada and the United States . |
| 25 | The apple has suffered delusions of grandeur for centuries — ever since the Biblical legend of Adam and Eve reached north-west Europe and people assumed that the fruit on the Tree of Knowledge was an apple . |
| 26 | As far as education was concerned , for example , Frelimo 's point of departure was an illiteracy rate of 93 per cent , compared with about 50 per cent in Nicaragua . |
| 27 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 28 | In mitigation of these charges it has sometimes been claimed that ‘ an important by-product of devaluation was an improvement in USA-UK economic relations ’ [ Cairncross , 1985 , 142 ] . |
| 29 | The suggestion that disputes should be referred to the Lord Treasurer , the Chancellor and the Court of Exchequer was an unwarrantable encroachment upon the jurisdiction of the Forest Justices in Eyre , |
| 30 | The linear pattern of development was an indication that God had programmed the whole history of life to move in a purposeful direction towards higher levels of intelligence . |