Example sentences of "[adj] [was/were] [art] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were the conclusion to a regular bass assessment , and not a fond peek into the past , I would have to say that I did n't get anywhere playing the VI . |
| 2 | It was less bad than the one before , but I could n't tell if they were dying down for good or if this were the prelude to something else . |
| 3 | If record 113 were an addition to the file in fig. 7.15(a) , the new structure would be as in fig. 7.15(b) . |
| 4 | Obviously this was no problem to the American buyers who were out in force and I wondered whether within fifty years all the antiques in Britain would end up in America and we would be confined to department-store replicas . |
| 5 | This was no credit to her own piety — but what was the use of pretending that she had any piety left ? |
| 6 | This was no surprise to Marion True , the Getty Museum 's Curator of Antiquities . |
| 7 | This was no surprise to Heinrich . |
| 8 | The praise was well-deserved , but this was no time to be resting on laurels . |
| 9 | But this was no time to be thinking about Marjorie again and her nagging about their poverty ; the morning would be complicated enough , God knew , without allowing Marjorie to invade his mind . |
| 10 | She instantly knew this was no time to be telling him what her trip to Bloomingdales had cost her in peace of mind . |
| 11 | Fenella felt ridiculous tears sting her eyes and brushed them away impatiently because this was no time to be emotional . |
| 12 | These boats were a dinghy or a canoe so this was no place to be wearing your best Sunday clothes |
| 13 | Pilade was the only one to whom she showed her true self and at three years of age this was no burden to him . |
| 14 | This was a relief to Watt who had been in Cornwall for a while supervising the engine business there . |
| 15 | This was a worry to me because I could not work out how much money I would have to live on . |
| 16 | This was a return to the test of outrage , with all its faults , but it met little outrage in Standing Committee and fell only because of the dissolution of Parliament for the 1987 General Election . |
| 17 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |
| 18 | In many respects this was a return to the position of the very last years of the fourth century ; the establishment of arian kingdoms on Gallic soil had removed from the catholic bishops sole authority over the definition of the Christian community , and it was only the conversion of Clovis and the expansion of the Frankish kingdom which gave the ecclesiastical hierarchy the authority once more to define the Christian life for all the members of the State . |
| 19 | This was a return to an area similar to that of my A Linguistic Guide to English Poetry ( 1969 ) , and in fact we thought of the two books as companion volumes , dealing respectively with poetry and prose . |
| 20 | This was a corollary to the Israeli insistence that the future of Jerusalem was non-negotiable — a principle rejected by the PLO and since March 1990 by the US administration [ see p. 37304 . ] |
| 21 | This was a climax to the expedition for the participants . |
| 22 | This was a warning to the adventurous Arab in the desert , if you did force-land and you suddenly found you were his prisoner , and in several dialects of Arabic . |
| 23 | Ibrahim al-Sanusi said that this was a peace to be made between tribes ( that was why he was there ) , and it was important to make it well . |
| 24 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 25 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 26 | This was a reference to Mr Mellor 's month-long holiday in Spain in August 1990 — paid for by Mona Bauwens , daughter of the PLO 's chief fund-raiser , at a time when Iraq was invading Kuwait . |
| 27 | Artemis realized this was a reference to her new stepmother , but she preferred to try and keep dropping her gathered pebbles into the centre of the splash made by the last one she had dropped . |
| 28 | This was a reference to the document , the subject of these proceedings , the status of which was , on 26 August 1988 , still undecided . |
| 29 | This was a reference to the principle of reciprocity embodied in the Yalta Repatriation agreements which will be discussed in Chapter Five . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , I still believed this was a reference to a rival company and , as my attackers never returned , the memory of their dark threats receded . |