Example sentences of "[coord] [art] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The agricultural future lay with cattle-raising ( the cow or the pig was the only cash product of the small farmer and was sold , to pay his taxes , in the markets that were the centre of Galician social intercourse ) , and this could not develop until railways brought the market centre of Lugo into contact with the mass consumption of Madrid and Barcelona . |
| 2 | Of course , like thousands of others around the world , I felt I ‘ knew ’ him from the wireless and his writings on the game ; but the training of binoculars on him in the commentary-box at Lord 's or The Oval was the nearest to physical contact . |
| 3 | But neither the car nor the team was the real problem . |
| 4 | That leaves the USSR with a pretty nasty gap to fill up , and the Foxbat was the best they had . |
| 5 | And the vicar was the the Reverend K G , he was there all the while . |
| 6 | After the initiation of Clelia , she was to Clara less Surprising than she might otherwise have been , for the resemblance between mother and daughter was marked : the features were the same , though worn and lined by grooves deeper than mere wrinkles : the set of the conscious , curious head was the same , and the hair was the same , though streaked with white , and hanging with the benefits of expense , as well as of style . |
| 7 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 8 | The right to good quality information for patients and the public was the essential prerequisite to enable them to do so . |
| 9 | That was two years ago , and the treatment was the London girl 's only hope . |
| 10 | It was rather a loveless heart , the guts were dagging , and the cunt was the driest coldest and most shrivelled of cunts , if indeed cunt it was and not an asshole in disguise . |
| 11 | The crosswind was increasing and the finish was the most exposed part of the course for this wind direction with a significant chop . |
| 12 | Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s . |
| 13 | And the Pill was the easiest way . |
| 14 | ‘ Melin ’ is Welsh for ‘ mill ’ , and the Meloch was the river which ran through the property , from which the diversion from the weir through the millpond , under the road and out into the famous River Dee would supply our needs . |
| 15 | I was six years old and the scene was the dim and secluded scullery in my grandparents ' house . |
| 16 | The King graciously stood godfather ; the baby of course was named George and was given a silver bowl inscribed ‘ The gift of His Majesty King George to his godson , George Lamb , Anno Dom 1725 ’ A story has grown up from this — for years I thought it was true — that Henry James saw this bowl — it had become by legend , golden — and the sight was the seed that led to his novel , The Golden Bowl . |
| 17 | He was seen weeping in the waiting-room at Durham station , and the misery was the giving up of Durham with its epic history , its Bede and Cuthbert , its beauty and its strength , his new friends and his old , the university and the mining communities . |
| 18 | Yeah , the thing that varied the less was the top and the most at the bottom and the middle was the middle . |
| 19 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 20 | After two days of torrential rain the Mistral was blowing the Gallic equivalent of brass monkeys and the sky was the colour of Hammer funerals . |
| 21 | We fought the Turks , and the Turks frightened off Uzum Hasan , and the surrender was the Emperor 's choice . |
| 22 | The plant , in Karnataka , is owned by a subsidiary of US giant Cargill and the attack was the second on one of the company 's plants . |
| 23 | ‘ I think the fire burns the fingers of the magician , ’ said a senior member of the Palestine Liberation Organisation , ‘ and the magician was the United States . ’ |
| 24 | A major worry to Mrs Thatcher and the Treasury was the future of the State Earnings Related Pensions ( SERPS ) which had been established by the Labour government in 1975 . |
| 25 | The Magician lived at one end of Puddle Lane , and the foot was the Magician 's foot . |
| 26 | At a different level a key factor affecting the uneasy dialogue between purists and the state was the partial transformation of political discourse itself . |
| 27 | A club existed with its centre at the inn and the landlord was the treasurer . |
| 28 | The first was the Cadbury report on the financial aspects of corporate governance and the second was the Auditing Practices Board 's paper on the future development of auditing . |
| 29 | The news that the police were interested made it imperative to get the body away at once — and the river was the obvious ally . |
| 30 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |