Example sentences of "[noun] was really [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 2 | El Alamein was really the beginning of the end of the desert campaign . |
| 3 | REMEMBER the man who made a fortune out of a book which claimed that the Old Testament was really the story of how extra-terrestrials landed on earth or , to put it plainly , that Elijah 's still small voice was a wee green man speaking in his ear ? |
| 4 | So the United States was really the only world power erm , erm , as were able to do anything . |
| 5 | The so-called Executioner 's Axe was really a woodman 's axe on a long handle . |
| 6 | She was supposed to be very , very quiet , she had to , I think complete submission was really the key point of women in the eighteen-forties . |
| 7 | Elsewhere , distinctions were made between self-denial , charity , and earnings , although , as Lesser remarked , the dilemma was really a moral one : |
| 8 | Was it possible this urchin was really the repository of cataclysmic sexuality as Ewan claimed ? |
| 9 | REVEALED : The secrets that prove super hero James Bond was really a super wimp |
| 10 | Alida was really the sisters ' friend . |
| 11 | The old hag was really a mummer mouthing lines taught to her and , once her part was played , she too had to die . |
| 12 | Updike was really a two-dimensional typographer . |
| 13 | To go into Cambridge at this time on our brief off-duty periods was really a life-saver and I used to go whenever I could , very often alone . |
| 14 | But Deana 's persecution , continued more subtly and covertly as the days went by , had left its sting , and she began to wonder if living in the nurses ' home was really the right thing . |
| 15 | Her actions reminded Seb that Melody was really a very simple soul , her emotions straightforward and uncluttered . |
| 16 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 17 | The Glen was really a race between Jody Scheckter and Hunt . |
| 18 | Rather , the moral goodness was really the power to produce a certain sort of pleasing sensation in the observer . |
| 19 | To my left was a rough wooden handrail , below , to right and left , I could now make out the grey slopes of two of the conical pits formed by the vault of the transept beneath — the floor under the catwalk was really a negative ceiling — but , apart from a yard or two near the edge , it was completely submerged in nest , as was the catwalk itself a few steps further in . |
| 20 | There had been Lewis , the guy who was down on cutlery and condiments , and much earlier a bloke called Evans , who maintained that Old Mother Walsh was really a man in drag and that it behoved members of the Church ‘ to wear the clothes of the other kind ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ So the Phantom was really a man ? ’ |
| 22 | The shed was really a garage but there was no car , just the carpets , two old cookers , and some broken chairs . |
| 23 | Whether their version of things was really the truth . |
| 24 | The achievement was really the beginning of ICI 's commercial catalyst business . |
| 25 | As she stepped back to view the result , she realised that Martha was really a most attractive girl . |
| 26 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 27 | She stayed on at the hotel and distracted him and then the next day other people got to him and explained that Parkinson was really a nice guy and that it was like painting and . |
| 28 | Because if Luke Hunter was really the man he seemed to be , she was in far greater danger … |
| 29 | Perhaps he wanted to feel this moral force of a man was really no better , no finer than him . |
| 30 | I would n't like to meet Caravaggio on a dark night and who can be sure that Darwin 's life-long illness was really the result of Chagas ' disease ? |