Example sentences of "the [adj] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In fact , I think my whole career at the end of the 60s was probably a guilt trip of some sort . |
| 2 | You could easily have borrowed a book from your local library and come to the conclusion that the specification of the 5086 was perfectly state-of-the art — whereas in fact it is now looking really rather old fashioned . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The second was essentially a matter of timing . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It was found that the swelling was not a tumour but an aneurysma large swelling of a blood vessel . |
| 7 | Painfully — for no work cost him more or perhaps as much as this one — Dostoevsky came to see that The Possessed was n't a sideshow . |
| 8 | The 1970s was also an era of Congressional reform . |
| 9 | Thus the considerable increase in recorded burglary during the 1970s was largely a recording phenomenon . |
| 10 | The P-40 was probably the fighter worst hit . |
| 11 | The latter was properly the business of epistemology and to be excluded from the scientific practice of sociology . |
| 12 | The latter was not a goal which Laura espoused , nor was she comfortable working in such a formal setting . |
| 13 | The latter was probably a garden escape , and is not found wild in V.C. 110 today . |
| 14 | The latter was particularly the case with assistants allocated to named children with special educational needs in mainstream classes . |
| 15 | The latter was everywhere a cause of severe poverty . |
| 16 | He was a follower of William Pitt and an acquaintance of Dr. Samuel Johnson ; he advised his son , Samuel the Younger , while the latter was still an undergraduate , that ‘ the respectable way to get into Parliament was by invitation , not by contention ’ . |
| 17 | Although her views are still regarded as highly eccentric outside reactionary conservative and fascist circles , it is interesting to note that some historians now argue that secret societies like the IRA and the Mafia have indeed played a significant role in world events , and that the Illuminati conspiracy in the 1780s was truly a model for future revolutionary organization . |
| 18 | The eighties was not the decade in which people abandoned railways , not anyway in Britain . |
| 19 | It has to be remembered that Britain of the 1920s was not a land of milk and honey . |
| 20 | The first was simply a codeword one of his paid agents had stumbled upon : a single Mandarin character , the indentation of which had been left on a notepad Jan Mach had discarded . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | While geographical proximity , cultural affinities and the need to justify Japanese rule encouraged the pursuit of a policy aimed at integrating the interests of ruler and ruled , equality between the two was never a possibility . |
| 25 | 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 ] . |
| 26 | Three internal streets were examined in the 1974 Red and Blue Cuttings at the west end of Kingshams Field , two being main thoroughfares throughout the history of the site , while the third was probably a service alley . |
| 27 | Heroes could be any one of these or many other heroic individuals — the Emperor Magnus the Pious was merely a student of theology when he began his march against Chaos , for example . |