Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impetus for the development of this framework was the realization that a common point in discussions with managers of innovative activities was the issue of uncertainty . |
| 2 | A part of this change was a fall in the number of widowed mothers . |
| 3 | Underlying much of this change was the rapid industrial development of the period . |
| 4 | This judgement was a necessary and quick judicial response to an unlawful attempt by one publisher to take someone else 's copyright for his own gain . |
| 5 | This payment was a fine for disturbing the deer when they were supposed to be fawning . |
| 6 | This market-place was the site of the annual fair , when swings , a roundabout with proper horses and a steam organ , shooting galleries , side-shows of all kinds and numerous stalls came to the town for three days . |
| 7 | This driver was a smaller figure , more like an ordinary man . |
| 8 | This nationalisation was an attempt to achieve the socialist objective of common ownership of the means of production and also to facilitate government intervention in the running of the economy . |
| 9 | He regretted that bawdry of this kind was the ‘ only living folk-art left to us . |
| 10 | One of the largest surveys of this kind was the University of Pittsburgh study . |
| 11 | However , the most valuable long-term effect of the plans for this index was the classification scheme which was devised in order to arrange it . |
| 12 | While both ideas turned out to be partially correct , the essential step in overcoming this difficulty was the application of an extra magnetic field — the so-called toroidal field — with lines of force parallel to the current flow round the torus . |
| 13 | This story was a favourite of the headmistress of her primary school , so she heard it often at Morning Prayers , and long before she could see it as a parable , she already felt shock before its injustice . |
| 14 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 15 | An aspect of this story was the total absence of the Doctor from Episodes Three and Four . |
| 16 | But by far his main task on this story was the designing of the Mechonoids , or Mechons as the first scripts called them . |
| 17 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 18 | The true pinnacle of success in this field was the Chamberlains in Birmingham , who combined an attention to organizational detail with a liking for the lim light . |
| 19 | This trial was a parallel , double blind , double placebo trial for one year comparing 20 mg enalapril plus placebo hydrochlorothiazide ( enalapril group ) with placebo enalapril plus 25 mg hydrochlorothiazide ( hydrochlorothiazide group ) . |
| 20 | This trial was an attempt to use the orthodox model , comparing a single remedy with placebo . |
| 21 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 22 | There was no race and this case was no game . |
| 23 | He continued by saying that ‘ the decision of the chief constable not to intervene in this case was a policy decision with which … the courts should not interfere ’ . |
| 24 | I was therefore surprised when I heard the hospital on the radio today saying that this case was a very isolated incident . ’ |
| 25 | Much as I sympathise with the plaintiffs , it would , in my opinion , be extending the implications based on the maxim … to an unreasonable extent if it were held that what has been done in this case was a breach of an implied obligation . |
| 26 | Clearly , this case was an outrageous fraud on the public purse . |
| 27 | However , this case was an extreme example of disregard by the plaintiffs towards the quality of confidence ( a tape recording was provided to , inter alia , the defendants , saying that the plaintiff 's sales and marketing plan was available to anyone and could be copied by them : the tape gave details of the plan ) . |
| 28 | History in this case was the product of a specialized group ; and the arguments about the quality of the product were about its beauty , metre , wit , rather than about its truth , typicality and meaning . |
| 29 | The preacher in this case was the Rev. William Cuff , a Spurgeon man . |
| 30 | The target the researchers were working towards in this case was the ability for its systems to recover from transient errors and other faults in the software . |