Example sentences of "[was/were] a [adj] feature " in BNC.
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| 1 | Terry 's run ended just a month before the end of 1960–61 , Palace 's first promotion season for 40 years , and his splendid and regular performances were a key feature in that success . |
| 2 | At a time when copper coinage had already been in use for some centuries at the heart of the Han empire , wealthy leaders of the tien community in the southern province of Yunnan were storing hundreds of thousands of cowries in the great bronze drums which were a prominent feature of the Dong-Son culture focussed on northern Indo-China . |
| 3 | Yards were a typical feature not only of industrial cities but of many a small country town which had to accommodate a rising population . |
| 4 | ( The three knocks were a central feature of the Masonic ritual , though Mozart 's dotted rhythm was specific to a Parisian lodge , the Grand Orient . ) |
| 5 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
| 6 | Maxse 's attacks on ‘ Mandarins ’ , ‘ Mugwumps ’ , and ‘ Tadpoles and Tapers ’ were a regular feature of his editorials . |
| 7 | Tournaments were a regular feature of noble life in these years , and in 1344 at an especially magnificent tournament held at Windsor the king took an oath to establish an Order of Knights of the Round Table as it had existed in the days of Ring Arthur . |
| 8 | Displays of retaliatory capability were a notable feature of the live-and-let-live system . |
| 9 | The potentially unifying effects of their different but complementary experiences of racism are dismissed , while the inclusive and openly politicized definitions of ‘ race ’ which were a notable feature of the late seventies have been fragmented into their ethnic components , first into Afro-Caribbean and Asian and then into Pakistani , Bangladeshi , Bajan , Jamaican and Guyanese in a spiral . |
| 10 | The Company 's barges were a much-loved feature on the Liffey as they plied the river with their cargo of goodness on the short run between Brewery and Port . |
| 11 | Before the 1914 war , field sports were a popular feature and cycle racing had quite a large following though these were mostly open races and drew competitors from around Kent . |
| 12 | This ability was sharpened by these players ' meetings , which were a unique feature of football at this time . |
| 13 | In the War years tea dances were a special feature and account for the slogan , ‘ Twice a day the Mecca Way . ’ |
| 14 | Twin fins were a common feature of American 1930s designs , but the nose-wheel then the very latest novelty . |
| 15 | Indeed , the ability of the Liberal Democrats yet again to confound the pundits and the polls was a striking feature of these elections . |
| 16 | Both the activities of local antislavery associations and public meetings engendered petitions and the recurrent presentation of large numbers of them to parliament was a striking feature of antislavery history . |
| 17 | Short-distance mobility was a normal feature of provincial life . |
| 18 | Yet , their combination of idealism with an emphasis on realism and ornamentation was a typical feature of their own , which often led to a clear mannerism . |
| 19 | Upper motor neurone disturbance rather than intellectual decline was a prominent feature , and magnetic resonance imaging disclosed abnormalities in the subcortical white matter . |
| 20 | This was done to provide sufficient scope for the scheme to assess a wide variety of projects , ranging from exploratory and practical to textbook work , encouraged in part by the large element of self study or group work which was a prominent feature of the course . |
| 21 | A growth in divestment was a prominent feature of the 1980's , with parent companies making disposals both to other groups and to existing managers in the form of management buy-outs . |
| 22 | In Britain , rock art was a major feature , consisting frequently of cup-and-ring marks . |
| 23 | It also inspires tremendous loyalty and a voluntary support squadron led by Air Commodore Dick Bogg was a major feature of today 's parade . |
| 24 | Where Methodism took hold , the force of the new puritanism was vastly more effective , largely because it attached sections of the working class itself to the moral crusade and began that polarisation of " respectable " and " rough " which was a developing feature in working-class communities in the nineteenth century . |
| 25 | For Spengler , this historical progression was a deterministic feature of all cultures , although heroic actions of individuals and peoples could delay the inevitable sequence of the next phase of development . |
| 26 | I think this was a redeeming feature . |
| 27 | But there was a redeeming feature . |
| 28 | Huey ( 1908 ) believed that some kind of internal auditory imagery of words was a legitimate feature of skilled silent reading , and devoted an entire chapter of his book to the functioning of inner speech . |
| 29 | Memento Mori was in no sense new in the teaching of the churches , but it had acquired fresh importance in the light of the conversion experience , which was a central feature of the religious revival . |
| 30 | Yet whatever one called it , it was a pronounced feature of British life . |