Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comte 's view of the arts was primarily an instrumental one ; they were to be harnessed to , and take inspiration from , the new scientific , moral and political order he proposed . |
| 2 | Luz being the Spanish for ‘ light ’ , you might think this was a place famous for its luminosity , but Saint-Jean 's Luz has a grimmer origin , in the Basque word meaning ‘ marsh ’ , because the estuary of the river Nivelle on which the town stands was once a swamp . |
| 3 | In industrial relations within the major steel industry the most striking difference between the United States and Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was undoubtedly the behaviour of employers ( Holt , 1977 ) . |
| 4 | My brother-in-law the councillor said nothing , just stood looking down at her ; and in his eyes was just the right mixture of kindliness and a sort of authority ; and something else — a twinkle , a you-and-me-having-a-little-joke-together look . |
| 5 | Thus marriage in his eyes was primarily the discharge of an obligation to his family and the nation , a task made all the more difficult by the immutable nature of the contract . |
| 6 | The constituency that made up these ordinary readers was probably no more ordinary than Tillyard 's projected Elizabethans were , yet his assumption was of a body of readers outside higher education institutions . |
| 7 | Interviewing prospective candidates was quite an eye opener for people who have n't a clue on what that job entails . |
| 8 | The US got the ‘ best ’ of the Cubans and Iranians , as it got many from 1848 ( Pinkerton , the organiser of anti-union factory guards was originally a British Chartist ) , and is now taking the cream of former communist states . |
| 9 | There were a lot of civilian girls there , wearing short , flared skirts and matching pants , and to see the way the men swung the girls up under their arms and even over their heads was quite an eye-opener . |
| 10 | The blame lay with the DES , which had thought that ‘ establishing polytechnics was just an administrative exercise ’ . |
| 11 | But the same thing is meant by both , for a simple reason : the legal conceptualisation of these relationships was largely a matter of clothing fact with right . |
| 12 | She told the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities conference at Dunblane that this week 's speech by Ian Lang , the Scottish Secretary , on the need for more emphasis on the three Rs and other traditional teaching methods was yet a further move which would demoralise teachers . |
| 13 | They used computers instead of quill pens , but the outcome of their labours was still the same as it had been for centuries — trade , the buying and selling of things that other people made . |
| 14 | The introduction of grant-maintained schools was perhaps the most controversial proposal in the Education Reforms Act 1988 , and one which was justified primarily on the grounds that it would extend parental choice in education . |
| 15 | Should the latter be the case , the concern expressed last week at the Bookseller Association Conference by BA president John Hitchin , that the threat of a tax on books was still a live issue , was not ill-founded . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As we sat there at the wedding-feast I held to the pedestrian belief that the rustling jetsam at my feet was merely the accumulation of champagne foil . |
| 18 | Telling friends , workmates and parents was also a difficult task , said Mr Rees . |
| 19 | Neither of her parents was ever a professional performer , but both were fascinated by showbusiness . |
| 20 | The conclusion reached after analysing the seven policy areas was that no one influence could be seen to have caused the growth of government . |
| 21 | The average per capita consumption for all developing countries was about an eighth of the world average . |
| 22 | B. S. Johnson 's collection of memoirs records the great variety in the treatment meted out by hosts — from kindness and generosity to unimaginable cruelty — and how , above all , the behaviour of inner-city children that so horrified Women 's Institute moralisers was frequently a natural and adaptive response to the emotional trauma of family separation and to the strangeness of country life . |
| 23 | A central government directed devolution of large psychiatric hospital services to their catchment area communities was therefore an unlikely outcome . |
| 24 | His last question to bishops on their ad limina visits was always the courteous : ‘ And now , is there anything I can do for you ? ’ |
| 25 | Taking the lifeboat out of the narrow harbour entrance into the face of 100-knot winds was only the first hazard . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As one of the ‘ older ’ helpers it was a little like going back to school as my two ‘ children ’ are now 28 and 25 and I do not have any grandchildren so holding babies of 18 months upwards and playing with youngsters was quite a change . |
| 28 | Accepting bills was once the principal function of those merchant banks who are still referred to as acceptance houses ( see section 3.3 ) ; it is now carried out by a large number of banks . |
| 29 | Using a new set of genuine Thomas Leavy documents based on his legal name change — the last thing he supposed the Federal authorities would be on the lookout for — Coleman then slipped back into the States , via Canada , for what he felt in his bones was probably the last time he would see his father and his country . |
| 30 | Charles hoped that George 's assumption was right , that Michael Banks 's difficulty in retaining the lines was just the product of laziness . |