Example sentences of "[art] [adj] was [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Greaves [ 1987 ] The Times , 11 July , it was held that it was a question for the jury whether a gap of 17 days between burglary and handling meant that the accused was not the burglar and so could be convicted of handling . |
| 2 | They spent so much time talking about gay things that they did n't actually have much time to do many gay things — which is why I think the really crucial thing that happened in the seventies was not the liberation of a particular sexuality but actually the liberation of a particular set of relationships through which people could enjoy sex , or not have sex , as the case may be . |
| 3 | The P-40 was probably the fighter worst hit . |
| 4 | The latter was properly the business of epistemology and to be excluded from the scientific practice of sociology . |
| 5 | The latter was particularly the case with assistants allocated to named children with special educational needs in mainstream classes . |
| 6 | The eighties was not the decade in which people abandoned railways , not anyway in Britain . |
| 7 | At least six significant antecedents may be discerned for the study of geomorphological processes and the first was undoubtedly the work of Grove Karl Gilbert . |
| 8 | The children with whom I worked had the least opportunity in terms of personal development and careers , and they were likely to be drawn into a variety of different forms of behaviour , among which the first was often the use of and then addiction to tobacco . |
| 9 | His subsequent break with the Roman church during the 1530s was not the result of any change of heart or conversion to the reformer 's views , nor due to any theological differences with the papacy . |
| 10 | Britain 's lack of competitiveness in the 1960s was clearly the product of some combination of comparative productive inefficiency and the rate of exchange [ Thirlwall , 1982 ] . |