Example sentences of "of [noun] [was/were] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his choice of blooms was hardly the issue . |
| 2 | So it is suggested that the Zuwaya image of statelessness was substantially a replica of how their ancestors conceived their society ought to have been , rather than a true and accurate picture of how it was . |
| 3 | The Chagga of Kilimanjaro were perhaps the group most fiercely opposed to the increased use of Swahili , but when they elected their paramount chief in the early 1950s they were unable to agree on which of the Chagga dialects to adopt as their common language , and they , too , adopted Swahili . |
| 4 | The so-called tomb of Osiris was actually the burial place of Djer , a long-forgotten king of the First Dynasty . |
| 5 | This attractive four-hundred-year-old listed building situated in a conservation area in the old town of Bridgnorth was once a Temperance hostel . |
| 6 | Jesus of Nazareth was now the prism through which the various shafts of light in the Old Testament about the Spirit became luminous and in focus to them . |
| 7 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 8 | With part-time farmers the lack of labour was mostly a problem for those on shift work or those who had difficulty in getting time off . |
| 9 | Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties . |
| 10 | The origin of civilisation was probably the arrival of a mental process in the evolving human being which , for the first time , was not a purely instinctive one . |
| 11 | Not only did it designate the nature and appearance of crime , but it also reappeared as causally implicated : in both classical criminology and the new deviance perspective , the amount of crime was primarily a function of the operations of the criminal justice system . |
| 12 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 13 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 14 | I took hold of the hand-rope , and the glimmer of light was soon a memory . |
| 15 | An eighteenth century travelling commode from the Duke and Duchess of Wellington , a pair of Georgian chairs from the people of Bermuda and wrought-iron gates from the neighbouring village of Tetbury were just a sample of the cornucopia of presents which had descended on the royal couple . |
| 16 | The subsequent liberation of Spain was largely the work of Wellington 's armies ; after the battle of Vitoria ( June 1813 ) Joseph left Spain and in the spring of 1814 the Desired One returned to his kingdom . |
| 17 | The study of functions was originally an offshoot of the study of properties of curves , geometrically defined , so it is interesting to see how a modern definition of function , expressed in terms of the set concept , is equivalent to what you would , in the case of a real valued function of one real variable , naturally think of as the graph of the function . |
| 18 | The older generations of miners were almost a race apart , misunderstood by outsiders . |
| 19 | But in 1979 the creation of peace was clearly a settling of an account : should a quarrel between a Zuwaya and men from Zliten occur in the future , that particular issue could not become a component element of it , for all the shaikhs concerned had agreed that the peace made was a good one . |
| 20 | There is no suggestion that passengers are or were more at risk on buses in Lothian than elsewhere : the level of casualties was simply the result of more bus trips being made . |
| 21 | That kind of farce was just the tip of the iceberg . |
| 22 | Oh just a smir of rain was just a kind of hardly a drizzle . |
| 23 | The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks . |
| 24 | WOULD-BE MP No rent had been paid since July last year but arrears up to the end of November were already the subject of a previous court order and Mr Finnegan had arranged for his wife 's small income to be made available to cover those . |
| 25 | The death of Earl Patrick of Salisbury was still an episode which aroused harsh feelings on both sides . |
| 26 | In fact , a recent flip through Faye 's pile of fashion magazines told Belinda that simple spaghetti-strapped dresses modelled on the design of slips were now the height of fashion for evening wear in New York and Paris . |
| 27 | The obscurity of parts of scripture was also a source of embarrassment if one took the books collectively to be the essential medium of divine revelation ; but that could be mitigated by allegory , or by the principle that obscure texts are interpreted by what is clear . |
| 28 | Indeed , both for men and women , the great process of uprooting was inevitably a process of undermining ancient ways and learning new ways . |
| 29 | Nor was it much consolation to the church that the extension of prohibitions was less the result of deliberate crown policy ( though the king certainly assisted by the provision of new writs ) than of popular demand among suitors , often clergy litigating against clergy . |
| 30 | Christopher of Hapsburg was clearly a man of delicate sensibilities , for he adds the comment , ‘ This process ought not to be directed against Christians . ’ |