Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their crimes were merely a low-grade reflection of the competitive and individualistic element in capitalism ; they indulged in an activity which , even in the form of mob violence , could never be effective in the revolutionary movement and , if not crushed , they were more likely to serve as ‘ part of a bribed tool of reactionary intrigue . ’ |
| 2 | He resisted , however , the notion that the polytechnics were merely a new breed of university . |
| 3 | In these , according to Engels , ideas and institutions were merely a direct reflection of economy and technology . |
| 4 | On the contrary , they saw the empire as the basis of Britain 's claim to world power status , and their commitment to exporting self-government — which they wrote about as if it were merely the current expression of the British administrative genius — was secondary to this . |
| 5 | Impassioned sequences in which the " poetry " consisted of nothing more than strings of synonyms were merely the extreme example of a tendency that was apparent throughout the work . |
| 6 | Those scavengers living their entire lives in those caverns underneath Kefalov were merely an extreme example of segmented vision — their whole cosmos reduced to a few cubic kilometres of debris . |
| 7 | In Hart v. Edinburgh District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 54 , the sheriff reached the same conclusion , but for different reasons , holding that 17 effectively repealed the concluding words of the proviso to 5.6(3) on the ground that they were merely an erroneous re-enactment of the corresponding part of the 1959 Act ; see also Clive v. Nithsdale District Licensing Board , 1987 S.L.T. ( Sh.Ct. ) 113 . |
| 8 | ONCE upon a time , whether you produced pots that were thrown on a wheel or hand-made and slab-sided , there were only a limited number of variables . |
| 9 | Many English Catholics remained deeply committed to the Stuart dynasty , for obvious reasons , although they were only a tiny minority of the population . |
| 10 | Guns were only a small part of the Sussex output , and much better known were the ornamental cast-iron firebacks much in demand for the more sophisticated housing of the middling and upper ranks . |
| 11 | The formalities , as it turned out , were only a small part of what they had to face . |
| 12 | Here the expression may , as so often , be read to blur the fact of a change of substance , to present a difference of kind as though it were only a modest difference of degree . |
| 13 | The fly-by-night theologies of the ‘ death of God ’ and ‘ magic mushrooms ’ were only the anarchic end of a serious attack by modern scholarship upon the presuppositions of biblical faith and credal affirmation ( see chapter eight ) . |
| 14 | The American trade figures were generally the high moment of the month . |
| 15 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |
| 16 | They were not a shapeless porridge of symbols , for at any rate some of them were consistently connected with others . |
| 17 | Posts in Britain were normally filled in this way , and people in London would have said that appointing officials in the colonies in a different way would have implied that the colonies were not a normal part of the British structure of government , People in America would have replied that the colonial structure of government was different in one important way because the colonists paid the taxes for these official salaries . |
| 18 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 19 | ‘ The internal dissension in the three parties , ’ wrote Beatrice Webb in her diary , ‘ each party finding its bitterest enemies among its own members or ci-devant members , would be ludicrous if it were not a sinister symptom of the decadent disrupture of British public opinion , owing to lack of faith either in the present order or in any consistent and comprehensive principles of reconstruction . ' |
| 20 | The anger generated by this sort of situation among English Protestants underlay the mob destruction of the chapels attached to the Bavarian and Sardinian legations during the Gordon Riots of 1780 ; but in general religious frictions of this kind were not a serious source of difficulty . |
| 21 | Though changing methods of planning for traffic specifically in residential areas were not a central thrust of Traffic in Towns , the book provided a context for residential area strategies which , in the event , have guided a number of countries in the ensuing quarter century . |
| 22 | For instance , the West , Roy and Nichols study looked at the cases of men who had already been incarcerated in an institution for mentally ill offenders — they were not a random sample of even those few rapists who are convicted . |
| 23 | However , for orbits whose lengths were not a whole number of wavelengths , each wave crest would eventually be canceled out by a trough as the electrons went round ; these orbits would not be allowed . |
| 24 | Even if it were not a leading objective of his tour , his natural intelligent curiosity , and his conscientiousness on behalf of his readers overcame any notional hierarchy of information . |
| 25 | But the Chiefs were not a different kind of person in the way that , in the armed services , officers were officers and men were men . |
| 26 | The point was made that jobs ‘ promoted ’ were not a true count of REAL jobs ; what we needed to know was the true job completion rate effected for what length of time — actual jobs and how long they lasted . |
| 27 | The 330 replies showed that 22 servicemen had died of reticuloendothelia system neoplasms ( cancers ) , and another five dead men had a history of such diseases although they were not the primary cause of death . |
| 28 | They were not the only respondent of the survey who identified another clear advantage of headhunting , especially for the most senior positions : that staff who were prepared to move jobs actually prefer to be headhunted , rather than face the time-consuming task of ploughing through advertisements or the slightly demoralising task of putting their names down with agencies . |
| 29 | ‘ Mr Jacobsen , ’ she forced herself to speak slowly and calmly , refusing to let him know he 'd just lit a tinder within her , ‘ it may have escaped your notice that you were not the only member of the cast — come to that , you were n't the only male , either . |
| 30 | The Tehran media were not the only source of hostility to Saddam . |