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 ) 54 , the sheriff reached the same conclusion , but for different reasons , holding that 17 effectively repealed the concluding words of the proviso to 5.6(3) on the ground that they were merely an erroneous re-enactment of the corresponding part of the 1959 Act ; see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 | These tasks were largely the direct product of successful service development and , at times , they threatened to squeeze out the development of new services . |
| 16 | The sunlight from an open window shone into his eyes , and she noticed that they were exactly the same shade of green as Stephen 's , and just as opaque . |
| 17 | The variations are so wide that it would contravene both the principle of fair labelling ( see Chapter 3.3 ( 1 ) ) and the principle of maximum certainty ( see Chapter 3.3 ( i ) ) if there were just a single offence of non-fatal harm and a single offence of sexual assault : this would often leave little to be decided at the trial and would transfer the effective decision to the sentencing stage . |
| 18 | Those new choices had to be afforded in terms of staff , accommodation , time , equipment and other items which needed a redisposition of money — but decisions about such items as these were already a normal part of management . |
| 19 | There were already a great number of the little red sold labels on many of their antique boxes , and other exhibits , which had been quickly snapped up when the Fair officially opened earlier . |
| 20 | The language of their statement was more extreme and militant than that of earlier protest groups but the concrete demands were already the common currency of anti-Unionists in the city and , as such , were neither new nor especially radical . |
| 21 | Higher European interest rates were hardly the main concern of investors in Oslo , home of Europe 's second-best performing market this year . |
| 22 | Decisions on change were not based on whim or fancy but were the result of keen study of the meticulous costing records which were always a prominent feature of management at Cessford . |
| 23 | But there were always a big potful of of whatever you know erm stew or she 'd make a a cake in a in a big meat tin . |
| 24 | Even in the 1830s the most influential work on international law could assume that salutes at sea were still a significant aspect of the subject . |
| 25 | Everywhere inherited rank and titles were still an integral part of social life . |
| 26 | But having put him in , he rarely consulted him on general policy issues and gave hint little role even in industrial disputes , which were still the traditional concern of the Board of Trade . |
| 27 | Moreover the Yek had a horror of the mutations which were still the occasional result of the patches of radiation which were to be found in places around the continent , and they had laws to prevent the proliferation of mutant types through succeeding generations . |
| 28 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 29 | His meetings with the CBI and the Prime Minister were clearly the main focus of his mission . |
| 30 | In hosiery manufacture , abatements for alleged negligent or fraudulent work were similarly a frequent cause of friction . |