Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was supposed to be very , very quiet , she had to , I think complete submission was really the key point of women in the eighteen-forties . |
| 2 | Most commentators agree that there was a change in ethos in economic policy over the 1960s which resulted in a more interventionist approach [ Beckerman , 1972 ] , and European practice was certainly an influence in bringing it about [ Estrin and Holmes , 1983 ; Hayward and Narkiewicz , 1978 ; Shonfield , 1965 ] . |
| 3 | It is a matter of months only before a learned historian unearths evidence which proves that the first sole normande was simply a mixture of fish boiled in a bucket of seawater on board the ship which took William of Normandy to Hastings . |
| 4 | This is the manifesto that could ensure that no British election was ever the same again . |
| 5 | On the Wilsonian view , the social contract was primarily an arrangement ‘ between government , industry and the trade unions , on the basis of mutual sacrifices to reach agreement on a strategy to curb rising prices ’ ( ibid. , p. 44 ) . |
| 6 | The effect of this was that young fans rarely got the opportunity to travel on the Supporters ' Club coaches and , since travelling by British Rail was often a hazardous and expensive venture , alternative arrangements were needed . |
| 7 | The French case was merely the most striking example of a general process . |
| 8 | His view became almost a national orthodoxy and Ludwig August Rochau , who is famous for having invented the word ‘ Realpolitik ’ , once declared that German unity was purely a matter of commerce ( ‘ eine reine Geschaftssache ’ ) . |
| 9 | REMEMBER the man who made a fortune out of a book which claimed that the Old Testament was really the story of how extra-terrestrials landed on earth or , to put it plainly , that Elijah 's still small voice was a wee green man speaking in his ear ? |
| 10 | Detailed guidance was frequently the result of such contact . |
| 11 | The ancient universities had adopted German ideas , so that scientific research was now an important part of what went on , especially at Cambridge , with physics and physiology . |
| 12 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
| 13 | Yeah , everyone said how nice he was and old Dr was quite a character |
| 14 | The old hag was really a mummer mouthing lines taught to her and , once her part was played , she too had to die . |
| 15 | His certainty , his sense of direction , his belief in himself disintegrated alongside his career , and the Nizan household was never the same again . |
| 16 | The completed work was possibly the map of the British Isles published by Gerard Mercator in Duisburg in 1564 . |
| 17 | The rule of strict cleanliness in all sexual matters was also a positive safeguard to health . |
| 18 | But the dialogue purists envisaged between women of different classes was still the traditional bond of philanthropy , which linked the middle-class ‘ donor ’ to her working-class recipient through notions of moral and material charity . |
| 19 | Her only public appearance was once a fortnight at the dole . |
| 20 | Chichester , with a population approaching 2,000 , also had its substantial merchants , yet its wealth was matched by that of the prosperous farming community of the coastal strip and the South Downs , despite £5,850 coming yearly into the city from all corners of Sussex as the income of the cathedral dignitaries ; almost certainly the moveable wealth of the clerical establishment was proportionately every bit as high as in Exeter , where it equalled one-sixth of aggregate lay wealth . |
| 21 | It pointed to a future in which the hitherto limiting relationship of water transport to the economy could be inverted : now waterways could be brought to favourable sites : " The controlled application of water to industrial and commercial purposes was indeed the basic and most potent technology in Britain 's early economic advancement . " |
| 22 | But in a sense the cataclysm of the French Revolution was only the outward political symbol of a much greater cataclysm : the rise of the new system of economics that Thomas Carlyle called ‘ industrialism ’ . |
| 23 | The centre-piece of the medieval festivals was always the great religious procession when the images of the saints were taken out of the churches and cathedrals and paraded round the town , as still happens in Catholic Europe . |
| 24 | Another free kick was almost a repeat of the Wimbledon one , only approx 4 inches wide . |
| 25 | In 1955 London theatre saw Samuel Beckett 's Waiting for Godot , a play composed first in French and later in English by a detribalised Irishman living in Paris , and theatrical minimalism was suddenly the rage . |
| 26 | She had a pleasing voice , and Morse guessed that her gushy manner was merely a cover for her nervousness . |
| 27 | Because of this , British policy was constantly a source of apprehension , and the democratic overthrow of British society was sometimes foretold abroad . |
| 28 | But all this re-creation of the old ways was also the creation of the Völkisch : the racially and culturally pure Aryans who were to be the master race destined to rule the world . |
| 29 | Then , as now , the smell of Gauloises would immediately evoke Paris , and to one accustomed , as I then was , to Players or Craven A , a French cigarette was still a novelty . |
| 30 | Although the strong-minded Negrín was never the Communist catspaw his many critics accused him of being , there was little he could do in the circumstances to prevent the Communists from exercising an increasingly independent and even dominant role within Republican Spain . |