Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | 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 ? |
| 3 | The so-called Executioner 's Axe was really a woodman 's axe on a long handle . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Elsewhere , distinctions were made between self-denial , charity , and earnings , although , as Lesser remarked , the dilemma was really a moral one : |
| 6 | Was it possible this urchin was really the repository of cataclysmic sexuality as Ewan claimed ? |
| 7 | Alida was really the sisters ' friend . |
| 8 | The old hag was really a mummer mouthing lines taught to her and , once her part was played , she too had to die . |
| 9 | Updike was really a two-dimensional typographer . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But now that he had had a good sleep , he could see that Strawberry was really a harmless , decent sort of fellow . |
| 12 | Rather , the moral goodness was really the power to produce a certain sort of pleasing sensation in the observer . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ So the Phantom was really a man ? ’ |
| 15 | The shed was really a garage but there was no car , just the carpets , two old cookers , and some broken chairs . |
| 16 | The achievement was really the beginning of ICI 's commercial catalyst business . |
| 17 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 18 | Perhaps he wanted to feel this moral force of a man was really no better , no finer than him . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | There were some families in which domestic help from a widowed grandmother was really a disguised form of assistance in the other direction . |
| 21 | And the whole thing was really a dismal flop because the context was so very different , the expectations were different , the kinds of things that you were saying . |
| 22 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 23 | His statement was really an invitation , an offer for her to think about , delivered in the confident style of one who was used to having his own way with women . |
| 24 | He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract . |
| 25 | In the term , the only term we needed to explain the whole structure of conscious , unconscious , pre-conscious , was repression and we saw that repression was really a key concept . |
| 26 | In those stories , the girl always discovered that the handsome , flashy character was no good at all , and the plain boy-next-door was really the one for her , and quite handsome , too , if you looked at him properly . |
| 27 | Reading English was really a literary way of reading History . |
| 28 | We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area . |
| 29 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 30 | The banquet was really a frantic blur to Corbett . |