Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 2 | Certainly it was popular in Hellenistic and Roman times , and as a free-standing statue was no doubt a late idea ; but the idea could very well have been suggested by such fifth-century pediment-statues as these . |
| 3 | Another Israeli concession was the presence at the negotiating table of Feisal Husseini , the unofficial lieutenant of the PLO leader , Yasser Arafat , in the occupied territories and a resident of Jerusalem . |
| 4 | Despite being the aim of many state pension schemes , the breaking of the link between old age and low income was a real possibility with SERPS . |
| 5 | To ensure that this progressive building was a success , it was essential –hat a supply of completely manufactured parts was on the ground at the point of erection , before the building of a vehicle was commenced . |
| 6 | The historic award was the first fatal accident claim to be started after the MoD lost its immunity from law suits in 1987 . |
| 7 | The most striking change was the presence of a manual which describes policies and practices of the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress , offers advice on classing difficult areas and explains how to choose between related numbers . |
| 8 | Coming now from , down to more specific ways of winning new work , due diligence was an initiative which we wanted to er tackle but not only in this office across the country and across the northern region . |
| 9 | The bull was a manifestation of Poteidan , and dancing with the most powerful god in the Minoan pantheon was no light matter . |
| 10 | Mixed-ability teaching was a principle fairly widely accepted , at least for children in their first year at secondary school , but in some schools for far longer . |
| 11 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 12 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 13 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 14 | One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned . |
| 15 | The garden 's sole glory was a laburnum , which blossomed wonderfully each year : but even that she associated more with its dry black fatal pods than with its flowers , so often and so rigorously had she been warned of its poison . |
| 16 | The triple shell was the traditional coffin for the burial vault and brick-lined grave . |
| 17 | While examining the Uffizi 's collection of statues in the course of a restoration programme of the classical examples , Luigi Beschi realised that the statue of the wounded warrior was an unrecognised Greek original from the classical period . |
| 18 | Jack was never flurried , his cool , unruffled play was a hallmark of his game , along with some immensely powerful clearances . |
| 19 | Mosley 's political trajectory was an extreme reaction to the dilemma in which British socialists found themselves . |
| 20 | His profound psychological insight owed a great deal to a neurotic streak , and it was no accident that one of his contributions to subsequent technical terminology was the term Angst ( ‘ dread ’ ) , and that he published books with such titles as The Concept of Dread , Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death . |
| 21 | Charitable donations , however , did nothing to enhance a political interest , even if a lack of charity could seriously harm it , for a substantial contribution from a major political figure was no more than was expected by the gentlemen of a county or the magistrates of a burgh . |
| 22 | On this view the non-specialist sole practitioner was a species of legal animal which market forces were in the process of rendering extinct . |
| 23 | A NEUTRAL Budget for the agricultural industry was the verdict of Suffolk farmers ' leader Roy Goodwin . |
| 24 | But that debate should not obscure the fact that private investment was the key that unlocked the Channel Tunnel door . |
| 25 | Lucy 's pregnant weight was a daunting burden to assist across the drive to the Volvo . |
| 26 | The major radical political force was the Partai Kommunis Indonesia ( PKI ) . |
| 27 | The main political force was the NSF , which took power during the revolution and was credited with ordering the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and bringing the fighting to an end . |
| 28 | The economic situation and the persistence of unemployment did help but the most obvious factor pushing Labour forward was the General Strike , which occurred between 3–12 May 1926 . |
| 29 | The event which followed this restriction on instinctual action was the brothers banding together to kill their father , and the consequent guilt they experienced . |
| 30 | Interlock with the requirements of the professional association was a crucial theme , and the Library Association expressed its willingness to accept CNAA degrees for postgraduate entry . |