Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was [adv] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most commentators agree that there was a change in ethos in economic policy over the 1960s which resulted in a more interventionist approach [ Beckerman , 1972 ] , and European practice was certainly an influence in bringing it about [ Estrin and Holmes , 1983 ; Hayward and Narkiewicz , 1978 ; Shonfield , 1965 ] . |
| 2 | On the Wilsonian view , the social contract was primarily an arrangement ‘ between government , industry and the trade unions , on the basis of mutual sacrifices to reach agreement on a strategy to curb rising prices ’ ( ibid. , p. 44 ) . |
| 3 | Her insistence on the importance of middle-class women 's participation in social disciplining was clearly an attempt to guard against their displacement by the growing authority of state sanctioned professionals in the mid-Victorian period . |
| 4 | And therefore in the interim period things had to be you know , you had to treat people fairly in order not to let them be of the belief er that going to er central conference was just an exercise . |
| 5 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 6 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 7 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 8 | From then on the most prominent change leading to the human brain was simply an increase in the area of the sheet of cells which forms the neocortex or neopallium . |
| 9 | The birth of a healthy boy was therefore an event of great significance , for it removed from Prince Napoleon , the Emperor 's cousin and heir designate , any hope of the succession . |
| 10 | Taylor 's next major work was also an innovation . |
| 11 | The glagolitic alphabet was probably an adaptation from the old Greek cursive script . |
| 12 | At first the change in bodily configurations was probably an aid to efficient swimming . |
| 13 | His intelligent and uncompromising struggle was always an inspiration to them in theirs . |
| 14 | Once again , and perhaps to an even greater extent than in his Chopin , you realize that for Cortot the most audaciously romantic piano was invariably an apotheosis of song and dance . |
| 15 | The Opposition have complained for years that our determination to maintain an essential minimum safeguard for our country with a nuclear deterrent was somehow an obstacle to the necessary task of reducing the overblown nuclear arsenals of the super-powers , but President Yeltsin dealt with their arguments in one wholly destructive answer . |
| 16 | In ‘ grey ’ areas it would be appropriate for no fines to be levied initially , until some cases had established whether a particular practice was generally an abuse of market power . |
| 17 | The emergence of an independent Macedonia on Greece 's northern border was indeed an event that justified a Greek response , but the response should not have been to tell the new country it could not use the name ‘ Macedonia ’ ( see box ) . |
| 18 | Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who have n't a clue on what that job entails . |
| 19 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 20 | Only within the Parliamentary Labour Party was there an attempt at collective discipline and that was so loose that the Independent Labour Party was to maintain its right to direct its own members within the PLP as late as 1931 . |
| 21 | The closeness of the oars on occasions in this strictly non-contact sport was merely an example of tactical exuberance . |
| 22 | The emphasis on property-holding , and hence liability for rates , as the basic qualification for the franchise in local elections was thus an advantage for some women in the struggle for the vote . |
| 23 | The fact that he had never asked the man if he 'd been able to fix the problem , Folly suddenly realised , was proof enough that the supposedly leaky tap was just an excuse to provide her with a chaperon . |