Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that burglary was the clincher . |
| 2 | This trend was partially reversed in the years after 1885 because many officials felt that the prison regime was too lenient and that flogging was the only effective deterrent to crime . |
| 3 | I mean that kitchen was a major job |
| 4 | That decision was the second major controversy of Hunt 's extraordinary year : this time not just Ferrari but many others felt that the race had been stopped to give Hunt time to repair his car , an argument given plausibility by the fact that Lauda had made his way out of the trouble and was clearly leading the race when it stopped . |
| 5 | In this era , it is widely accepted that collectivism was an ideal cultural trait which could be harnessed to the growth of aggressive nationalism . |
| 6 | While believing that few teachers were intentionally racist , and while not accepting that racism was the sole cause of West Indian underachievement , the committee concluded that unintentional racism ( in the sense of stereotyped , negative or patronising views of West Indian children ) was widespread and did influence children 's performance . |
| 7 | At first that fight was an uphill struggle . |
| 8 | As we have seen , he had declined commissions to write further historical or religious dramas on the lines of Murder in the Cathedral : as far as he was concerned , that play was a " dead end " . " |
| 9 | The fact that a storm may show up the poor condition of a flat roof does not signify that storm was the proximate cause of damage . |
| 10 | That lane was a delight . |
| 11 | Now furthermore , if we look at what was happening to the population itself , remember that under the economic basis of looking at determinants of demand , we saw that income was a crucial factor . |
| 12 | The score for each trial was the number of correct letters of the trigram given in the right position . |
| 13 | In neither case was a child resistant lid contraindicated . |
| 14 | In neither case was the customer owner of the goods at the time he disposed of them . |
| 15 | Only two patients with low grade or mixed grade disease died , but in neither case was the cause related to lymphoma . |
| 16 | Neither case was an edifying example of law enforcement . |
| 17 | It must have seemed clear to him at once that Tolkien was a man of literary genius , and this fact only brought home to him his own sense of failure as a writer . |
| 18 | That Turnour was a hard , tough , trained fighter . |
| 19 | The court held that necessity was a defence to the claim in trespass and nuisance . |
| 20 | The court held that necessity was a defence to trespass provided there was no negligence on the part of the defendant . |
| 21 | The belief , sincerely held by many of my working class contemporaries , that teaching was a much better job than many of the others which were open to them , no longer applies . |
| 22 | The experience of working with gifted teachers and heads in their early career , the sense that they have in some cases been given the benefit of working closely with other wise and successful teachers — particularly inside a religious order — the fact that they in some cases went away from teaching and , having had time to reflect in quite unrelated work , then saw that teaching was an obligation which they should meet — these are among the backgrounds which heads are prepared to reveal . |
| 23 | Although other newspapers were allied to political parties , that alignment was an ‘ essentially ’ voluntary and/or historical one . |
| 24 | ‘ The Department of Health report also showed that milk was a major contributor of calcium , thiamin , riboflavin and vitamins , and that differences in milk consumption were reflected in the falling intakes of these nutrients in lower income families . |
| 25 | In both the following examples relating to money transactions , the display also had to be interpreted because the result of the multiplication in each case was a complete tenth of a pound . |
| 26 | The visit that afternoon was a vague affair . |
| 27 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 28 | The House considered the decision in McGhee and stated that the judgment of Lord Wilberforce in that case was a minority one and did not represent the law . |
| 29 | The only possible basis for jurisdiction in that case was the service of the writ out of the territorial jurisdiction under Order 11 of the Rules of the Supreme Court . |
| 30 | What was at issue in that case was the right to acquire , use or dispose of immovable property on the territory of another member state ; the court held that that right was the ‘ corollary ’ of freedom of establishment . |