Example sentences of "was indeed [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , the first form of Bubo in the film was indeed a real owl . |
| 2 | The case against the defendant was indeed a strong one and for that reason their Lordships would not be prepared simply to recommend that an acquittal be ordered , but they do not feel able to say that the jury would inevitably have convicted , if the defence had been furnished in advance with the three statements in question and if the jury had received the accepted direction on evidence as to character and guidance from the trial judge on the problem , whatever it was , indicated when they first returned to court . |
| 3 | It was indeed a sad thing that in these days when the Church had enough enemies outside it should divide itself into hostile forces , because , he added aptly , forgetting the original subject of the quotation , a house divided against itself could not stand . |
| 4 | Averaging the EEG over forty such self-initiated movements , Libet found that there was indeed a time-locked negative shift beginning about 550 msec before the movement . |
| 5 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 6 | It echoes many other tributes to his industry ; and it shows that he was indeed a good family man . |
| 7 | The ship was indeed a good ship , the crew were good seamen , and the captain knew his business well . |
| 8 | So it was indeed a classic nightmare where I dreamt that I was the only person searching for the child , and the only person who saw that this vast Argosy was down near the coastline , and I landed in a most difficult position near the aircraft and found nobody else about . |
| 9 | President Yeltsin accepted that Trident was indeed a minimum deterrent and that the focus of arms control negotiations should be on the arsenal of the two super-powers . |
| 10 | The creation of a new county palatine was indeed a grand gesture , and a notably archaic one , but on examination the gesture is more than the substance . |
| 11 | The creation of a new county palatine was indeed a grand gesture , and a notably archaic one , but on examination the gesture is more than the substance . |
| 12 | Bonar Law was now Leader of the House of Commons without a department , and it was indeed a full-time job to keep the governmental process going there . |
| 13 | And in accord with this prediction , when recordings were made from the motor neurons within the abdominal ganglion during habituation , it was found that there was indeed a progressive decline in the firing rate of the cells as habituation occurred . |
| 14 | This is because , of course , ballet was indeed a diplomatic service , the USSR 's most potent cultural export . |
| 15 | There was indeed a fuzzy picture of Grandson , 39 , under the words : ‘ TV-IN-THE-SKY HITCH . ’ |
| 16 | So it is surprising to discover that the substance of Proofs was indeed a three-page essay in Granta — especially when one considers the puritanical intellectual rigour that characterises Steiner 's literary style . |
| 17 | If you only read , say , the Independent and listen to Radio 4 ( and there are some people who do ) , you would think the entire British nation agreed that the National Health Service was Britain 's finest achievement ; was indeed a sacred trust that should not be tampered with in any way , but merely fed with the choicest morsels of public spending and worshipped . |
| 18 | I perused the beast and proclaimed that it was indeed a woolly mammoth , of the genus Mammuthus primigenius . |
| 19 | The idea of an ‘ internal world ’ is not however new in ethology ; it was indeed a prime preoccupation of one of its key founding fathers , Jacob von Uexküll , who through studies of the perceptual apparatus of a variety of species deduced the nature of the experiential worlds to which they gave rise . |
| 20 | If only prudent allowance is made for the loss of Sir Charles 's personal cross-party vote , the participation of three other candidates and the tactical switch of a significant number of Labour supporters , it will be seen that Mr Taylor 's defeat was indeed a close run thing . |
| 21 | It was indeed a serious thought . |
| 22 | Obviously such a plan required exploration and the local authority necessarily required flexibility to place T. with her older sister for trial periods of staying contact before reaching any conclusion as to whether she was indeed a potential permanent carer . |
| 23 | In fact , you had to go through the humiliating procedure of explaining to everyone that it was indeed a public school . |
| 24 | He threw the name Portlington into the telephone conversation , assured Mr Crumwallis that it was indeed a Public School , and the results were gratifying . |
| 25 | It was indeed a difficult time . |
| 26 | Reagan 's testimony was indeed a dramatic summation of sorts , and the most bizarre of all . |
| 27 | This was indeed a dramatic triumph for the reductionist strategy the group had pursued , and seemed set to vindicate Kandel 's claim that the goal of his research was to discover the ‘ cellular alphabet ’ of learning . |
| 28 | By pointing out a flower or describing a rarity he could make a walk supremely interesting and was indeed a charming companion on any expedition in the fields . |
| 29 | This was indeed a Pyrrhic victory , because West Indies cricket was assuredly the loser . |
| 30 | In June 1981 the CPRS reported back that there was indeed a commercial case for electrification but that the programme should be endorsed route by route rather than in some all-embracing fashion . |