Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | European traders were really no problem ; they usually negotiated with his direct vassals or with princes lower in the scale . |
| 2 | Its working methods were almost a caricature of those prevailing in high political bodies in Moscow . |
| 3 | Shah Jehan 's extraordinary sexual appetites were always a matter of some speculation in the Imperial City , both to travellers and to native Delhi-wallahs . |
| 4 | But all this re-creation of the old ways was also the creation of the Völkisch : the racially and culturally pure Aryans who were to be the master race destined to rule the world . |
| 5 | Fifteen per cent first discovered the joys of sex in the living room , while the next most popular spots were either the back of a car or the great outdoors . |
| 6 | She reminds us that the battle against the modernist masters was indeed a campaign to counter the sanitised aesthetic conventions of art embodied ( mainly ) in the practice of painting . |
| 7 | Modern paleontologists argue that these supposedly linear trends were actually a product of the imagination seeking to impose order upon a relatively small number of fossils . |
| 8 | It was like Poor Cow or Cathy Come Home except that the woman at the sharp end of the social services was also the author . |
| 9 | While Japanese computers were hardly a factor in the boom years , they were to become a major force in the 1980s . |
| 10 | The confessional and moral articles were largely the work of the constitution 's architect , the then prime minister Eamon de Valera . |
| 11 | This theme was being maintained a year later , by which time it was clear that the incentive that held the greatest attraction for Japanese buyers was still the discount , particularly as the hazards of lifting oil in the Gulf were making insurance so expensive . |
| 12 | A heroic stand against impossible odds was always a possibility . |
| 13 | Holidays in medicinal spas were then the privilege of the wealthy . |
| 14 | All his ferocious attacks were just a game . |
| 15 | But Huxley did envisage that selection acted on genes that had more than one effect on the form ( morphology ) of an animal , so that although the large body size would be adaptive , the extra large antlers were simply a consequence of prolonged growth . |
| 16 | Piatakov also spoke , arguing that national rights were now the weapon of a counter-revolutionary bourgeoisie . |
| 17 | How Brampton and Vechey had probably not committed suicide but been murdered and that Allingham 's supposed death from natural causes was probably the murderer striking again . |
| 18 | Unemployment thus helped to shape the politics of the age , and some political changes were clearly the result of the problems it raised , although long-term social changes were clearly evident in permitting the Labour Party to replace the Liberal Party as the progressive party of British politics . |
| 19 | He struggled even more when four men pounced upon him and pinned him to the ground , but his frantic movements were more an attempt to breathe than to escape . |
| 20 | This ‘ realist ’ attitude towards international affairs was partly a product of unqualified support for the expansion of state intervention in the domestic economy . |
| 21 | Abu Khadra 's faith in legal niceties was only a gesture . |
| 22 | At first the change in bodily configurations was probably an aid to efficient swimming . |
| 23 | Moreover , it appears that mid realizations are gradually appearing in environments ( such as pre-voiceless stop ) where low realizations were once the norm . |
| 24 | Above all , he rejected the Marxist view that economic relations were always the explanation of social structure and the prime mover of social change . |
| 25 | Other medical advances were often the subject of rather more hesitation . |
| 26 | By 1973 we were finally able to convince ourselves and , I believe , the rest of the research ‘ community , interested in the problem that the biochemical changes were indeed an aspect of learning and not any of what we had come to call the concomitants of learning , such as motor activity or visual experience . |
| 27 | None of the figures on any of the regulatory bodies was exactly a spring chicken , and none could be called a radical . |
| 28 | Once experimental control achieved in laboratory conditions made it possible to demonstrate that the strength of specific behaviours was indeed a function of environmental events , it seemed reasonable to describe such events as reinforcers . |
| 29 | It is uncertain whether these small shorthorns were simply the result of a gradual diminution in size of the earlier British cattle , possibly from a combination of selection and lack of nutrition , or were imported from Europe in the Bronze Age . |
| 30 | To go into Cambridge at this time on our brief off-duty periods was really a life-saver and I used to go whenever I could , very often alone . |