Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was [adv] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most commentators agree that there was a change in ethos in economic policy over the 1960s which resulted in a more interventionist approach [ Beckerman , 1972 ] , and European practice was certainly an influence in bringing it about [ Estrin and Holmes , 1983 ; Hayward and Narkiewicz , 1978 ; Shonfield , 1965 ] . |
| 2 | On the Wilsonian view , the social contract was primarily an arrangement ‘ between government , industry and the trade unions , on the basis of mutual sacrifices to reach agreement on a strategy to curb rising prices ’ ( ibid. , p. 44 ) . |
| 3 | The ancient universities had adopted German ideas , so that scientific research was now an important part of what went on , especially at Cambridge , with physics and physiology . |
| 4 | The English church was thus an essentially Erastian church , and by 1500 the English crown had few reasons to complain about the otherwise privileged position that it had acquired within the realm . |
| 5 | Her insistence on the importance of middle-class women 's participation in social disciplining was clearly an attempt to guard against their displacement by the growing authority of state sanctioned professionals in the mid-Victorian period . |
| 6 | To Michael Powell documentary was nothing more than a refuge for ‘ disappointed feature filmmakers or out-of-work poets ’ , but the wartime films he made within an immensely fruitful collaboration ( the Archers ) with the Hungarian Emeric Pressburger , with the two of them sharing credits for production , direction and screenwriting , take on documentary concerns in ways which indicate that the absorption of the documentary filmmakers into commercial filmmaking was only an incidental part of a process with roots deep in wartime culture . |
| 7 | A wooden mansion was quite an inviting residence : it consisted of the saloon of a large ship that must have been wrecked in the neighbourhood . |
| 8 | And therefore in the interim period things had to be you know , you had to treat people fairly in order not to let them be of the belief er that going to er central conference was just an exercise . |
| 9 | His two unmarried sisters were in the same line of business in Winchester Street , but whilst their tiny shop was always an advertisement for cleanliness , his was quite the opposite . |
| 10 | When developing countries wanted better terms of access for their exports of manufactures , they found that the principal supplier was invariably an industrialised country . |
| 11 | Private Eye was indeed an extremely sore point with Branson . |
| 12 | The late Marguerite Yourcenar was also an admirer of Proust and she relates the history of her mother 's family in Dear Departed in a way which recalls Proust 's fidelity to our actual thinking about the past and to the sheer coincidences by which past and present can seem to illuminate one another . |
| 13 | The idea of a National Government was primarily an idea of the political centre and right : there was hardly any support for it in the Labour party — except from Mosley , and he was moving rapidly to the right . |
| 14 | From then on the most prominent change leading to the human brain was simply an increase in the area of the sheet of cells which forms the neocortex or neopallium . |
| 15 | The national loaf was rather an unappetizing grey colour I do n't know if anybody remember the national loaf . |
| 16 | The birth of a healthy boy was therefore an event of great significance , for it removed from Prince Napoleon , the Emperor 's cousin and heir designate , any hope of the succession . |
| 17 | Taylor 's next major work was also an innovation . |
| 18 | Water for fulling — cleansing and thickening the cloth — and in due course for driving the industrial mills which were to replace the looms of individual home-based workers was also an important factor . |
| 19 | The glagolitic alphabet was probably an adaptation from the old Greek cursive script . |
| 20 | At first the change in bodily configurations was probably an aid to efficient swimming . |
| 21 | Fortunately Annellie Clyde was an inspired teacher and Artemis , besides being a very talented rider was also an extremely quick learner , so much so that the principles of riding side-saddle were learned by the end of day two , although without the help of Artemis 's new horse , Hullabaloo , who had proved himself to be somewhat too fidgety and edgy to be included in the preliminary tuition . |
| 22 | His intelligent and uncompromising struggle was always an inspiration to them in theirs . |
| 23 | I can confirm that , although the medical examination was clearly an unpleasant experience for Mrs. X , it was in accordance with the regulations and was conducted with kindness and sympathy throughout . |
| 24 | Once again , and perhaps to an even greater extent than in his Chopin , you realize that for Cortot the most audaciously romantic piano was invariably an apotheosis of song and dance . |
| 25 | The Opposition have complained for years that our determination to maintain an essential minimum safeguard for our country with a nuclear deterrent was somehow an obstacle to the necessary task of reducing the overblown nuclear arsenals of the super-powers , but President Yeltsin dealt with their arguments in one wholly destructive answer . |
| 26 | An all-glass tank was therefore an obvious choice and here I received my first pleasant surprise but more of this later . |
| 27 | United Left was always an inappropriate name for a coalition that includes the Communist Party of Spain , a breakaway socialist party known as the PASOC , and assorted republicans , independents , feminists , greens and pacifists . |
| 28 | The average per capita consumption for all developing countries was about an eighth of the world average . |
| 29 | Another participant in this activity was the London-based paper Sawt al-Kuwait , in which the back-page cartoon was often an unflattering characterization of Saddam . |
| 30 | According to Dr Clarke , the Treatise was mainly a political invention , while the General Theory was mainly an intellectual one . |