Example sentences of "[noun sg] was indeed [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 2 | If only prudent allowance is made for the loss of Sir Charles 's personal cross-party vote , the participation of three other candidates and the tactical switch of a significant number of Labour supporters , it will be seen that Mr Taylor 's defeat was indeed a close run thing . |
| 3 | Forced labour was indeed the form taken by the administration 's next major effort to deal with what had become known as the moran problem . |
| 4 | Beginning in 1855 , and then especially in the early 1860s , he developed his theory of electromagnetism , which began with a model of tubes of force with complex mechanical analogies , and led to the idea that light was indeed an electromagnetic disturbance . |
| 5 | Martyrdom was indeed the new value of the age . |
| 6 | We arrived at the ski chalet just about dusk one Sunday evening and the scene was indeed a happy one , with scores of city folk having a gay old time , well wrapped in woollen jumpers and cardigans , and equipped with the necessary skis and poles . |
| 7 | Private Eye was indeed an extremely sore point with Branson . |
| 8 | The Moscow seminar was indeed an experience in sharing ethical reflections between 15 members of the teaching staff of the Faculty of Journalism , the editor of the weekly magazine Journalist , Dimitry Avraamov , and the president of the Union of Journalists of the USSR , Eduard M Sagalayev . |
| 9 | The emergence of an independent Macedonia on Greece 's northern border was indeed an event that justified a Greek response , but the response should not have been to tell the new country it could not use the name ‘ Macedonia ’ ( see box ) . |
| 10 | Fun was indeed the key element , and the single also provided a welcome break from working on homegrown material , Green still smarting over the tepid reaction to the ‘ Provision ’ album of 1988 . |
| 11 | Yet it is my firm conviction that at the peak of his career at Loughborough House , my father was indeed the embodiment of ‘ dignity ’ . |
| 12 | That Spartan deference to allied feeling was indeed a matter of necessity not sentiment is shown by her peace proposals to Athens in 425 : in Thucydides ' account ( iv.20 ) the Spartans say that if Athens and Sparta do a deal the rest of Greece will do them honour . |
| 13 | At that point , the passenger-to-be produced her UWC pass and , on her assurance delivered in Ulster speech that the flight was indeed an essential service , it was accepted as valid for both herself and the pilot . |
| 14 | The discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1912 made a significant difference too : it then became possible to determine unambiguously whether a small , hard crystal was indeed a diamond . |
| 15 | IBM UK 's environmental operations chairman , John Gillett , claims however that BATNEEC was indeed the basis for the audit . |
| 16 | It is one of the greatest examples of the age of a woman who had stern awareness that high birth was indeed a matter of high responsibility . |
| 17 | The ship was indeed a good ship , the crew were good seamen , and the captain knew his business well . |
| 18 | This is because , of course , ballet was indeed a diplomatic service , the USSR 's most potent cultural export . |
| 19 | The city was indeed the most striking outward symbol of the industrial world , apart from the railway itself . |
| 20 | Reagan 's testimony was indeed a dramatic summation of sorts , and the most bizarre of all . |
| 21 | Anyway , the first form of Bubo in the film was indeed a real owl . |
| 22 | Their boast was in some respects justified , for some of the fall in the real price of electricity was indeed a result of their successful promotion of domestic loads : reducing supply costs by increasing the average consumption per consumer . |
| 23 | The creation of a new county palatine was indeed a grand gesture , and a notably archaic one , but on examination the gesture is more than the substance . |
| 24 | The creation of a new county palatine was indeed a grand gesture , and a notably archaic one , but on examination the gesture is more than the substance . |
| 25 | It is that the coin was indeed a perfectly ordinary cause of something , which thing was not a thousand miles away from the bar 's coming out . |
| 26 | It seems to have been assumed throughout the discussions leading up to the signature of the Convention that the use of the postal channel was indeed a mode of service , of notification . |
| 27 | In his preface to the book , written at the close of 1871 , he signified , albeit in flamboyantly veiled language , that this essay was indeed the effective starting point . |
| 28 | And the speech was indeed a frank catalogue of the state of the personal computer business today : revenues down 14% , Apple Computer Inc , IBM and DEC contemplating low margins and sinking market share , the astronomical cost of developing a new package , the failure of PCs to penetrate much beyond word processing and spreadsheets , the monopoly lock of a few software houses on the marketplace and engineering 's inability to develop an intuitive box , all conspiring to dissuade any sensible PC guy from putting any more money into research and development . |
| 29 | The whole Robertsbridge undertaking was indeed a highly diversified one incorporating a large farm that sold corn and beer to the workmen , and hides to tanners and glovers . |
| 30 | The female transvestite was indeed a deeply disturbing figure in the early seventeenth century . ’ |