Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Benny did n't know that Peggy Pine was an old friend of Mother Francis , that they had been girls years ago and that when she came to the convent she called Mother Francis Bunty . |
| 2 | Boss Lord Douro said that brand development was the key . |
| 3 | In that year a London chemist , Smithson Tennant , burned diamonds and found that carbon dioxide was the end product ; the same amount of carbon dioxide was produced by burning equal weights of diamond and charcoal . |
| 4 | Two hundred and six patients in all were enrolled , and 159 patients were included in the analysis , according to protocol , sufficient to show that fluticasone propionate was no more than 18% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 5 | In the Smolensk area as elsewhere , they linked up with agricultural advisers in the effort to make the peasants realize that subsistence farming was a form of self-exploitation , since their energies were dissipated in a multitude of tiring undertakings . |
| 6 | In addition , the later credit reference states that recipient firm was a ‘ properly constituted company , considered good for your figures and purpose . ’ |
| 7 | Convinced that niche marketing was the right approach to follow , they decided to build on their experience in audit , accounting and tax for companies with turnovers of £1m to £30m ; investigative work for institutions that have invested , or are thinking of investing , in such companies ; and general litigation support . |
| 8 | The first year 's trapping suggested that Platycheirus albimanus was the commonest garden hoverfly , forming almost a fifth of the total catch ; a fifth of the species trapped in 1972 were represented by only one individual , and the average number of individuals per species was 29 . |
| 9 | A number of studies ( see , for instance , Furbush , 1989 ) , have found little evidence to substantiate the claim that programme trading was a major factor in the 1987 stock market crash . |
| 10 | The employers , with new-found spirit , informed the Minister that labour unrest was the result of political rather than economic conditions , and withdrew from the discussions . |
| 11 | One of the reasons for Bell Lawrie feeling that Brewin Dolphin was the right answer to its future was that their approaches are similar and therefore such integration as there needs to be is largely confined to systems . |
| 12 | IT WAS Richard Nixon who said that wilderness preservation was a sign of the self-restraint that marked a mature society . |
| 13 | She comments that people seemed to feel that child care was an appropriate service for kin to perform for each other , but also that they should not be exploited . |
| 14 | Dummy corpses dangle aloft , to remind us that Tyburn Tree was no joke ; but Caird and his cast also do justice to the element of pure burlesque , to Gay 's elegance and panache , to the swing and snap of the dialogue . |
| 15 | The Government of the day believed that takeover activity was the means by which the stockmarkets ensured that companies were motivated to become as efficient and successful as possible . |
| 16 | Using word processors was already standard practice for us and it became rapidly apparent that desktop publishing was the way to go , so far as production systems were concerned . |
| 17 | But the charge that sterling policy was the main cause of the British predicament is more difficult to sustain , even if it is made part of a vicious circle of poor performance . |
| 18 | I half-believed things people were saying and yet I also knew that Midnight Cowboy was a damn good project . ’ |
| 19 | At Finsbury Park a great big hot air balloon : er , a bit of a poser , this one , unless you know that Finsbury Park was the site of the first hot air balloon flight . |
| 20 | The fact that Muir Construction was the contractor for both the external shell of the building and the interior fitting out of the store proved advantageous and the company was able to start the internal fitting out work early , even though the shell was finished later than was anticipated in the original programme . |
| 21 | For some time it was suspected that Camp Mill was the site , but this now appears unlikely . |
| 22 | It was held that Maidstone market was a market overt because it was established by charter in 1747 and that the innocent purchaser obtained a good title to the car because it was customary at Maidstone market for goods to be sold by private treaty after the auction . |
| 23 | Within two years , the American Heart Association ( AHA ) suggested that cigarette smoking was an additional risk . |
| 24 | The researchers therefore concluded that cigarette smoking was an independent risk factor for the development of premature wrinkling . |
| 25 | If it were proved that insider dealing was a desirable activity , then the issue of the Chinese Wall would be of marginal significance , since adopting the mechanism would hinder what would otherwise be a worthy activity . |
| 26 | Anarchist risings in January 1932 , January 1933 and December 1933 , while highly regionalized and easily suppressed , provided evidence of the Republic 's failure to embrace a large part of the Spanish lower class and at the same time helped convince many middle-class Spaniards that Republican democracy was the breeding ground of disorder and revolution . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , the study of pressure-group activity during our period shows that pensions policy was the outcome of a series of struggles which acted to curb , if not always significantly , the powers invested in successive governments . |
| 28 | He explained that union membership was an outdated rule . |
| 29 | Dugan suggested that the military had concluded that air power was the only way of forcing Iraq out of Kuwait if war broke out , and that a massive bombing campaign had been planned in order to " decapitate " the Iraqi leadership by targeting Saddam , his family and his senior commanders . |
| 30 | In a press statement , visiting Capital House Chief Executive Norman Riddell — who has since left to join Invesco Europe as Chief Executive — and the Manx subsidiary 's Managing Director Bob Straskiewicz said that Capital House was a truly world-wide operation . |