Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Marjorie Boulton wrote : ‘ The whole Somerville experience was a revelation to someone who had previously had a largely stultifying education and a narrow background ’ ; it gave ‘ freedom of discussion , dignity of life , stress on truth in scholarship , study in depth , no fear of victimisation , undenominational chapel , fine library , interesting friends … and Joshua , the Principal 's tabby cat . |
| 2 | But communism communism was a form of Antichrist . |
| 3 | Until the rise of factory industry , framework knitting was a cottage industry , and in Calverton ( in Windles Square and elsewhere ) , Ruddington ( q.v. ) and many other Midland towns and villages , knitters ' cottages can still be seen . |
| 4 | Hilda Bernstein , the wife of one of those on trial , wrote : ‘ The Rivonia trial was a confrontation in which the opposing forces in South Africa appeared face to face ; those who stood for apartheid … and those who opposed it . |
| 5 | THE general election result was a defeat for the BBC , the higher thinkers , the opinion polls — and the Liberal Democrats who once again have been exposed as a hollow shell . |
| 6 | Following the completion of the Gymnasium , the next major step in the building programme was a Hall , with Harrison as architect again . |
| 7 | A DOPEY thief thought the hologram of William Shakespeare on a stolen cheque card was a mugshot of the OWNER . |
| 8 | Others suggest that the first Hereford ancestor was a cow called Silver who , with her calf , was bequeathed to Benjamin Tomkins by his father Richard in 1720 , and indeed Benjamin 's son , Benjamin the younger , became the great improver of the breed in the 1760s . |
| 9 | Underlying the suffrage struggle was a set of attitudes which dictated that women 's natural sphere was the home , that their full development came only with motherhood and that a ‘ womanly woman ’ would not be interested in or want the vote . |
| 10 | Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago . |
| 11 | The basic study instrument was a self administered questionnaire which was completed on three occasions by all pupils . |
| 12 | A few feet south of the CBR entrance was a side entrance to the hotel leading down to a beer parlour on one side and the spacious Hotel Cafeteria on the other . |
| 13 | IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . |
| 14 | In the Soviet Union before the advent of Gorbachev succession was a struggle within the ruling elite , for example there were prolonged struggles after the death of Lenin in 1924 and of Stalin in 1953 , the main difference between the two episodes being that the losers in the 1950s escaped with their lives whereas those in the 1920s did not . |
| 15 | Slotted in among the books on the review desk was a copy of the Canadian Vintage Aircraft 1992 Calendar . |
| 16 | Although over half the students in Responsible Body classes were women , every member of the Ashby Committee was a man . |
| 17 | Picking up from St Paul the idea that the Old Testament law was a kind of ‘ tutor ’ , Irenaeus saw the relation of the Testaments as a progressive education of humanity . |
| 18 | Dumping Viola Angotti in the garbage can was a way of re-establishing his pride — of making himself feel big and important . |
| 19 | Immigration R v Immigration Appeal Tribunal , Ex parte Khalid Hussain ; CA ( Lloyd , Glidewell , Stuart-Smith LJJ ) ; 5 Oct 1989 Under r 18 of the Immigration Appeals Procedure Rules 1972 , the decision of an immigration appeal tribunal considering whether or not to hear oral evidence to determine whether there were compassionate reasons for a person convicted of murder to be given entry clearance was a matter of discretion and could only be attacked on Wednesbury principles or other recognised rules . |
| 20 | ‘ I thought the Stock Exchange was a place called the Stockings Changed , ’ he explains . |
| 21 | Though it was not the first hostile bid — Charles Clore and Isaac Wolfson beat it by several years — the aluminium battle was a prototype for future bids in which a buyer made an offer to the shareholders of a listed firm against the wishes of its managers . |
| 22 | In a more serious vein , the attribution to me of the statement that Super-SARA was a tremendous hindrance to negotiations for a LOFT consortium was a surprise to me and , I submit , to anyone who knew that the funds for Super-SARA had already been set aside . |
| 23 | The climax of the mass action campaign was a rally on Aug. 5 addressed by ANC President Nelson Mandela from the steps of Union Buildings , the seat of government in Pretoria . |
| 24 | But police now know the murder weapon was a knife with a ten inch long blade . |
| 25 | In the Smolensk area as elsewhere , they linked up with agricultural advisers in the effort to make the peasants realize that subsistence farming was a form of self-exploitation , since their energies were dissipated in a multitude of tiring undertakings . |
| 26 | ‘ My first paying photograph job was a friend of a friend 's wedding . |
| 27 | The criterion for a gap junction was a minimum of 20 membrane particles in a plaque . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you suggesting that she was murdered and that the car business was a cover-up ? ’ |
| 29 | Such firms were likely to have particular characteristics : they were probably relatively labour-intensive , so labour was an important part of their costs ; or they might be located in an area where labour costs were rising particularly fast , or where labour availability was a problem . |
| 30 | The team have since made a second visit to Korup to complete some unfinished tasks , and the whole Korup relationship was a success . |