Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I find that the refusal she then gave to the administration of blood was a refusal which took no account of the likely change in her circumstances . |
| 2 | This was specifically endorsed by Lord Pearce in Esso where he explained that what Lord MacNaghten meant was that the adequacy of consideration was a key to oppression and that oppression is a key to reasonableness . |
| 3 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 4 | Oddly , his loss of temper was a relief to Polly . |
| 5 | The loss of reason was a just punishment for an evil life , which was the result of the misuse of reason . |
| 6 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 7 | Reagan 's command of television was a vital qualification for the presidency in the 1980s . |
| 8 | In particular , disruption of the network as a result of conflict was a matter of great political sensitivity , making the railways vulnerable to the sort of external attack that both unions and management were constantly concerned to deflect . |
| 9 | Corresponding to the dramatic acceleration in the stock of money was an equally dramatic acceleration in the rate of inflation . |
| 10 | The final stroke of luck was a strong north-easterly which sprung up to wash them ashore on Great Barrier Island . |
| 11 | The fear of invasion was a powerful factor in many refugees ' lives . |
| 12 | But the essential conservatism of UDC thinking is revealed in the fact that , apart from a footnote on women 's suffrage , the only addition made to a platform written within weeks of the outbreak of war was a commitment to the defence of free trade . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The first indication of danger was a growing unrest in the north of England . |
| 15 | The first indication of danger was a growing unrest in the north of England . |
| 16 | What is clear to anyone reading the report is that the Benson Commission accepted that the practice of law was a professional activity and that professions display a number of common characteristics : |
| 17 | I had never done a drawing solely in watercolour crayons before , and so the whole piece of work was a challenge from beginning to end to end . |
| 18 | He mentioned that a special piece of equipment was a split-charge alternator of 133/65 amp output . |
| 19 | He wondered how many of those around him were there for what he would call the right reason : the feeling that it was simple , playful fun to know things , an eager delight at the discovery that each piece of learning was a key to greater complexities of understanding . |
| 20 | The offering of sacrifice was a regular feature in ancient Near Eastern religion . |
| 21 | It was by now clear that the economic and technological side of modernity was a power of terrible destruction as well as positive social improvement . |
| 22 | In the late sixties the initial effect of overaccumulation was a period of feverish growth , with rapidly rising wages and prices and an enthusiasm for get-rich-quick schemes . |
| 23 | Heaven lay about us in our infancy ; the innocence of childhood was a spiritual category with its own space and time : |
| 24 | Their administrators had too readily supposed that the pleasure of kicking a ball across a stretch of grass was an acceptable substitute for the real danger and excitement of a raid . |
| 25 | ‘ The essence of Bolshevism was a rigid authoritarian mistrust of mass movements and a sectarian revulsion for co-operative ventures . ’ |
| 26 | The other direction of development was a ‘ re-Hegelianization ’ of Marx 's concept of ideology . |
| 27 | Kelly 's only hope of survival was a heart and lung transplant . |
| 28 | It is pleasant to find that this believer in the perfectibility of mankind was a good father to them all . |
| 29 | We saw earlier in this chapter that the enthalpy change of formation was a measure of the stability of a compound . |
| 30 | In reaching this conclusion the court argued that freedom of contract was a fundamental right , and that if parliament intended to empower a third party to make conditions which affected the provisions of a contract between others then this should be expressed in clear terms . |