Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The February play was A Thriller of the Year , with an all-female cast our original choice of play was A Death Trap we could n't cast it because of a lack of men auditioning . |
| 2 | The final stage of assessment was the negotiation of a treatment contract , including which of the patient 's problems were going to be tackled and the practical arrangements for treatment sessions . |
| 3 | Lankester suggested that the driving force of progress was the struggle of organisms to cope with environmental challenge , and warned that degeneration threatened any species that took up a less stimulating environment . |
| 4 | This pattern of support was a dangerous one for the club . |
| 5 | The breakdown of the old holdings continued through the next five generations between 1603 and the 1720s , and although the rate of change was no faster than before , in the end the results were dramatic . |
| 6 | One of the features of change was the emergence of a unique landscape along the coast , on the riverside and in the countryside : ‘ a makeshift world of shacks and shanties , scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape , with unmade roads and little in the way of services ’ ( Hardy and Ward . |
| 7 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 8 | The age of hair was the first ⅗ of the 70s . |
| 9 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 10 | Mysterious indigo with its connotations of protection was a substance and colour full of symbolism in the distant places of Arabia . |
| 11 | The final stroke of luck was a strong north-easterly which sprung up to wash them ashore on Great Barrier Island . |
| 12 | And to think , ’ I say , brushing mud from a faraway marsh off my boots , ‘ that I knew you when your idea of power-dressing was a tool-belt round your hips . ’ |
| 13 | The Ministry of Defence was a typical government ministry in the Soviet Union , except that it was much larger than most . |
| 14 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 15 | Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work . |
| 16 | Economically the traditional sector of agriculture was a negative force : it was immune to the fluctuations of the great markets or , if not , it resisted their impact as best it could . |
| 17 | The Commissariat of Agriculture was the key element within Pomgol . |
| 18 | The centre of agriculture was the villa , and many of these were built in Suffolk . |
| 19 | Moreover , many actual nationalizations were indeed objectively functional for the restructuring of parts of the economy ‘ no longer organised as capital ’ as Fine and O'Donnell ( 1981 ) put it ; and the British Conservatives only attempted to reverse the post-war Labour government 's efforts ‘ where we believed that a measure of nationalisation was a real hindrance to our island life ( Winston Churchill , cited in Weiner 1960 : 80 ) . |
| 20 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 21 | It can be seen , therefore , that there has been a nucleated village at Wharram Percy for only 400 years or so out of at least 2000 years , and that , in effect , the village as a form of settlement was an aberration , the single farm being the normal settlement from which the land was worked . |
| 22 | Like Valesio , he had been shot through the mouth , but this time the only sign of damage was a single discreet exit wound in the back of the neck . |
| 23 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 24 | I suggested earlier that one element in the construction of physics was the useful/useless duality . |
| 25 | One unusual craft used for this type of smuggling was a very fast power boat race competitor approximately named Who Dares . |
| 26 | The central issue to be determined in this evolving process of acculturation and of bargaining was the proportion of the nation 's investment resources to be devoted to electricity supply . |
| 27 | Another source of worry was the baby girl that Panna , another of Chaman 's chelas , had adopted ; if ever it wheezed or coughed or refused its food , Panna would work herself up into an opera of agitation . |
| 28 | His only admission of worry was the debate over marketing boards . |
| 29 | Leavis held firm to the idea that any kind of responsible discussion of literature was a critical act , so that the academic was inescapably engaged in criticism when lecturing or conducting a seminar . |
| 30 | To Socrates , the only acceptable kind of literature was the fable — a straight-forward medium for conveying necessary truths . |