Example sentences of "was [adj] of [art] [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Among the names on the list was that of a former Finance Ministry official and that of Soka Gakkai , a lay Buddhist group which had close links to Komeito .
2 The barman brought over their hot toddies and Roy was glad of the few seconds ' reprieve .
3 Where the younger brother was moderate and willing to compromise , aware of the rights and claims of his subjects and of the impossibility of ruling despotically , the elder was conscious of no such limitation and , with the highest intentions , was deeply intolerant of all opposition .
4 I was short of a few quid to do anything about it so my mate lent me the money , we went to a scrap yard , picked up a spare and he delivered me back here in his motor , then your chaps picked me up . ’
5 Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas .
6 Couple this with the subtle change in image ( from naked half-man , half-mutt on ‘ Diamond Dogs ’ to a grey suit ) and you have the beginnings the funky sojourn Bowie was about to embark on — which would , of course , peak with ‘ Young Americans ’ and crop up again whenever he was short of a few ideas .
7 Carved into the stone was more of the same type of repulsive alien art that had become so familiar over the past couple of days .
8 It is on this basis that the New Critics argued that criticism was capable of the same degree of objectivity and rigour as traditional scholarship could achieve .
9 This did not mean , as some had assumed , that Man might recklessly pillage Nature for what he sought ; indeed , Nature was deserving of the more respect because it was a divine creation .
10 He later became the senior trainer , served the Palace under ten managers and was one of a few staff left at Selhurst during World War Two .
11 But his was one of the many families in the streets that ran off the main road at the bottom of the hill and from whom this shop and the tobacconist 's derived most of their regular custom .
12 It was one of the many coves in Fethiye Bay where you can anchor up while the meltem , the locally variable north-westerly that is both the driving force and the cooling fan of the Lycian coast between May and September , does its stuff .
13 It was one of the many things for which she had Rune to thank .
14 There was a momentary hesitation while he considered the implications , but it was one of the many challenges he could n't let go .
15 Which was one of the many reasons , now he thought about it , why he was planning to kill her .
16 This was one of the many reasons why he was such an immensely likeable man .
17 Mr Williamson , can I ask for your confirmation that the reason that the Secretary of State deleted Policy E two in the nineteen eighty structure plan was one of the many reasons under the heading , General , there is no specific reference in the notice of approval to the deletion of this policy and therefore I am assuming it fell for one of the reasons given in paragraphs five point two to five point four five .
18 Hitting the headlines again , Connors was one of the many businesses affected in the Bangor and Portadown bombs this year .
19 The old woman 's son was one of the many prisoners who have subsequently died in the prison .
20 Mr Grant 's grandfather was one of the many skippers who used the railway to sell fresh fish to the industrial markets in the hinterland and to London .
21 Mill Road Hospital was one of the many places hit and Maureen was injured there , fortunately only slightly , and taken to another hospital .
22 It is extremely probable that it was one of the many plants brought over to Britain by the Roman occupationary army to remind the legionaries , while they shivered in the damp foggy cold , of the warmth and dryness they had left behind at home .
23 It was one of the many characteristics they shared .
24 I believe he was one of the many aircraft that General Galland 's flying wing and the German Navy shot down on route through the narrows of the Channel .
25 Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) .
26 Opinion such as this was well established long before Hitler rose to power and there can be little doubt that Germanisation was one of the many items of baggage the Prussians left behind for the Nazis to snatch .
27 ‘ Freedom of labour ’ in capitalist society was one of the many myths of that society , since in reality the monopolisation of the means of production by the capitalists forced the workers to sell their labour-power .
28 ‘ Indeed , it was one of the many subjects … time , Amaryllis … but you have driven so much out of my thoughts .
29 Anyway , the mosque was one of the many subjects he felt it safest to avoid until he had plucked up the courage to go into one .
30 That was one of the many occasions when we were sent for after supper and beaten by the Library .
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