Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum my mum was the best mum ever . |
| 2 | Brownlow , a Jersey tax exile whose father was a close friend of the Duke of Windsor , originally offered the Abdication papers to the Royal Archives . |
| 3 | What began as an exotic flirtation with the Other , a pop foray into a perceived Heart of Darkness , soon turned into a full-blown dance initiative in those irony-clad years of 1980–81 , with everyone from Japan to ABC to Cabaret Voltaire to Spandau Ballet to Heaven 17 conspiring to venture a white funk whose snappiness was a jeer at the indies , a white funk that would saunter easily into the charts and every other public place and , with their manifestos , make them better places to be . |
| 4 | Fen growled in her ear , but despite the stern admonition his breath was a subtle caress . |
| 5 | ‘ I had a girl whose dog was the bridesmaid . |
| 6 | In that state , Paul talked more than he should ; and boasted to Edwin of his engagement to a lady whose grandfather was the Earl of Holden in Warwickshire . |
| 7 | At the moment their relationship was a weekend one , but both of them occasionally thought that the idea of marriage still had something to be said in its favour . |
| 8 | She found Alice knitting in a pale sitting room whose window was a gigantic cloudburst of primrose and grey . |
| 9 | In the meanwhile , we may perhaps see here a reflection of a decline of noble and , possibly , of literary influence on the place accorded to the battle in war , in which it was no longer regarded as the great opportunity for individual acts of courage , but more as the culmination of a military process whose aim was the achievement of a particular political goal . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , as composer and teacher his influence was a formative contribution to the development of pianism in the nineteenth century . |
| 11 | He simply went on from there : he topped our list of goalscorers for the remaining four pre-war seasons , and again in 1919–20 and during that period his record was the equal of any in the game . |
| 12 | Nagata earned the nickname ‘ Bloody Empress ’ in the late 1970s when she proudly told the court her occupation was a ‘ revolutionary ’ and defended her motives for killing her comrades . |
| 13 | It gave on to a shadowed court whose centrepiece was an orrery on a stone plinth . |
| 14 | On April 11 ( mid-way through Easter Passion week ) 150 orthodox Jewish settlers moved into the St John 's Hospice , a building situated in the Christian Quarter whose ownership was the subject of a dispute between the Greek Orthodox Church and the Ataret Cohanim yeshiva ( a Jewish religious seminary and one of the main settler groups ) , the latter having reportedly paid up to US$4,500,000 for the lease . |
| 15 | Naturally , what the duke had in mind was his own political interest , and his managers duly picked a man named Hamilton for the vacant charge , a gentleman whose brother was a bailie of one of the royal burghs in which the Montrose faction took an interest . |
| 16 | He lodged with the scholarly Tjokroaminoto whose household was a kind of ashram , and who introduced the latest arrival to the new nationalism of Sarekat Islam . |
| 17 | Johnson was receiving a pension from the King whose brother was the Duke of Cumberland , the butcher of the day . |
| 18 | The catalogue , containing essays by J. Patrice Marandel , Curator of European Sculpture at the Detroit Institute of Art ( and curator of the 1978 Chicago Show ) , Dianne Pitman , a Bazille scholar whose dissertation was the first devoted to his work , and François Daulte , author of the Bazille catalogue raisonné , is , remarkably , the first publication on Bazille in English . |
| 19 | On this occasion his display was an infuriating mish-mash of inconsistency and questionable judgment . |
| 20 | And at night our bedroom was the grandstand of Walthamstow dogs st stadium . |
| 21 | During the later years of Henry 's reign , a number of radical Protestants , such as John Bale , took such comments to their logical conclusion by arguing in a series of historical and theological works that the pope and the Roman church should be seen as the Antichrist — the powerful antithesis of Christ and the fount of all evil whose downfall was a necessary forerunner of the second coming of Christ . |
| 22 | Nuns and priests had organised a float whose theme was the Holy Family . |
| 23 | THE unfaithful Army captain whose wife was the victim of a Fatal Attraction-style killing has been asked to quit . |
| 24 | A friend of mine met up with a keen Christian woman whose life was a mess . |
| 25 | By the end of the second week our clubhouse was the scene of strident song and bold laughter . |
| 26 | Do you realize that by your age your grandmother was a national heroine ? |
| 27 | ‘ In the shipyard my dad was a craftsman and he could have some self-respect — just Like Grandad did . |
| 28 | YEAH ! ’ is , of course , the only thing you really have to say about this record , the first DEAD LOUD pop song whose chorus was the most vulgar thing a British group had ever sung , whose chords were monsters , whose drums suggested the possibility of imminent noisy sex . |
| 29 | And I think that in this sense his life was a failure , that he was never able to live up to his scientific naturalism , that he was never able to integrate his romantic nature with his view of the nature of the universe . |
| 30 | In contrast his wife was a neat quiet lady who was kind to small boys . |