Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Circumstantial evidence suggests that the passage of the Bill through Parliament was largely the work of Samuel Whitbread II . |
| 2 | Barley , supplemented towards the east by legumes , was the ubiquitous cereal ; with investment in crops and livestock evenly balanced on the smaller holdings , mixed farming for subsistence was probably the norm . |
| 3 | So it is suggested that the Zuwaya image of statelessness was substantially a replica of how their ancestors conceived their society ought to have been , rather than a true and accurate picture of how it was . |
| 4 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 5 | With part-time farmers the lack of labour was mostly a problem for those on shift work or those who had difficulty in getting time off . |
| 6 | Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties . |
| 7 | The origin of civilisation was probably the arrival of a mental process in the evolving human being which , for the first time , was not a purely instinctive one . |
| 8 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 9 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 10 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 11 | I took hold of the hand-rope , and the glimmer of light was soon a memory . |
| 12 | But in 1979 the creation of peace was clearly a settling of an account : should a quarrel between a Zuwaya and men from Zliten occur in the future , that particular issue could not become a component element of it , for all the shaikhs concerned had agreed that the peace made was a good one . |
| 13 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 14 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 15 | The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks . |
| 16 | The obscurity of parts of scripture was also a source of embarrassment if one took the books collectively to be the essential medium of divine revelation ; but that could be mitigated by allegory , or by the principle that obscure texts are interpreted by what is clear . |
| 17 | Indeed , both for men and women , the great process of uprooting was inevitably a process of undermining ancient ways and learning new ways . |
| 18 | But it 's not easy I mean you know I was reading an article ages ago a few months ago actually and saying you know if you think about it the sort of revolution was over a year ago and still the government has n't done anything about it and I mean like a lot of provisions that have been brought into Romania sort of go in the front door and out of the back door and you know they sort of sent those of supplies like contraceptions and things like that for the women and overlap |
| 19 | But the biggest and best-organised part of the exercise of fund-raising was undoubtedly the levy of an increasing number of local taxes on the trade of goods , including consumables , of which the most profitable were those imposed on drink , in particular on wine . |
| 20 | The time when scruples about extrapolating from studies on animals to humans would have seemed absurd , because it was widely held that basic behavioural processes were common to all species and that the complexity of behaviour was simply a function of the capacity of the organism to learn , is long since past . |
| 21 | The conventional type of bridge was obviously an impossibility under war condition , owing to the necessity to survey the site , and the time for its provision . |
| 22 | Quantity of baggage was everywhere a sign of class and status . |
| 23 | Laker knew only too well that the name which had once been an asset in the world of aviation was now a liability . |
| 24 | The triumph of liberalism was therefore the result of the attitude of the army : a minor officers ' revolt had been backed by what was later termed a ‘ negative pronunciamiento ’ — the refusal of the army to support the government . |
| 25 | Prior to 1916–17 , prior to the crisis brought about by the demise of his father , the process of schooling was merely an extension of family life , a childhood means of emulating a successful father , the arena in which to live up to the expectations of a demanding father-figure . |
| 26 | The smith was a key man under the old farm-horse economy ; and the smithy in addition to being an essential and regular place of call was also a kind of exchange for horse and farming news in the district . |
| 27 | His sense of humour was always a feature of the critics ' circuit ; I treasure a bulging mental file of his roguish observations on fellow critics and luminaries in the music trade . |
| 28 | Part 5 considered two contending theories of perversion and homosexuality , one deriving from psychoanalysis , the other from anthropological , sociological , and historical perspectives , in which Foucault 's History of Sexuality was both a culmination and a new departure . |
| 29 | The success of the Amsterdam-Pleyel Movement also sent a clear signal to equivocating party political leaders that a unified front to combat the growing threat of fascism was now a matter of urgency . |
| 30 | They did not believe that the high rate of litigation was primarily the result of an excessive amount of crime or an unusually large number of valid civil disputes . |