Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The discovery of impressive ruins which illustrated the past existence of a great Sinhalese-Buddhist civilization in the dry zone provided Buddhists with proof that their religion was not the cause of their colonial status . |
| 2 | Religion was not the area of civilization which Polybius and Posidonius found easiest to understand . |
| 3 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 4 | Religion was more a background , a context . |
| 5 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 6 | Religion was sometimes a mixture of Celtic , Roman and Christian beliefs and this affected the rites at death ceremonies . |
| 7 | In Benton v Campbell , Parker and Co Ltd [ 1925 ] 2 KB 410 , it was held that the auctioneer was not liable to the purchaser for the sale of a car when it transpired that the person who put the car into the auction was not the owner . |
| 8 | Disappointment was also the reaction of Sealink British Ferries , whose parent company Sea Containers is currently fighting a $1.036 billion bid from Temple Holdings which would involve the UK ferry business ending up in Swedish hands if it succeeds . |
| 9 | v. Chilton , the Court of Appeal held that a threat by A , a trading association , to put B , one of its members , on a ‘ stop list ’ ( which would prevent B from getting goods from the members of the association ) unless B paid a sum of money for having broken a rule of the association was not a tort . |
| 10 | The association was not a substitute for , but rather a supplement to , internal company means of labour control ( e.g. via a company union ) ( Homburg , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | The democratic element in the party 's thinking was mainly a conviction that ‘ the people must be right ’ , but popular views were indicated by the act of choosing every four or five years between the two major parties . |
| 12 | Seen in this light de-industrialisation was not the onset of a foreign disease but the unavoidable expiation of past neglect . |
| 13 | Springall was also a moneylender , a usurer . |
| 14 | Building the ark was n't a matter of nipping to the DIY shop and coming home with a few boxes labelled ‘ Flatpack ark ’ . |
| 15 | By the time Coleman picked up the threads of the plot in February 1987 , there was still no clear plan of attack , although it was generally agreed among Hurley and his colleagues that luring Younis into a drug deal was probably the key , and that a lot of political hassle would be avoided if he could be taken , say , in international waters . |
| 16 | The suggestion put forward by Hall and Schachtman was that the dishabituation observed in their experiment was not the consequence of a failure of input and representation to match , but rather depended on a change in level of arousal . |
| 17 | point out that this change in procedure will tend to equalize the associative statutes of the two contexts and suggest that the context-specificity they observed in their first experiment was solely a result of their failure to equalize the two contexts in this respect . |
| 18 | But for her , Mary was a Guise ; and a Guise was not a court butterfly . |
| 19 | The partnership was not a success , however , and within six months Milburn took it over and amalgamated with Nathan and Sommers . |
| 20 | The partnership was not a success , and is best remembered for McLaren 's ploy of persuading the group to perform onstage with a hammer and sickle banner , offending even their deeply buried atavistic feelings of patriotism . |
| 21 | , can I , can I just say , thank you Chairman , but could I just say on two three , I think that one of things that built the partnership was actually the launch of Ludlow , and that all those organizations were there , and helped part of the process , and I think one of the things we need to think about , Chairman , is now we 've got that B status , even though we 're arguing at the fringes , we 've actually got it , is perhaps doing another event like Ludlow , to involve all the organizations that , that , that will be participating in the programme , to give them a , so that they feel a , a common ownership of the programme , they can put forward the projects they want , they feel they are part of the process . |
| 22 | As a result , the police force was rudimentary and inexperienced while the Belpan Defence Force was primarily a supplier of honour guards for the rare visitor of sufficient importance to warrant ceremony . |
| 23 | Julia 's bedroom was now the heart of the house with the family spending every possible moment with her , and although her face was almost fleshless she could always manage a smile to greet them . |
| 24 | However , the time zone niche was also the basis for LIFFE 's introduction of US T-bond futures in 1986 and Japanese bond futures in 1988 . |
| 25 | Speed was not a factor . |
| 26 | Bob Naish of the Agricultural Development and Advisory Service , gave warning that the ‘ when ’ of succession was often a matter of considerable irritation and even aggravation between the parties . |
| 27 | The language used by the president was also a shock to many , and the transcripts of the tapes were punctuated with the phrase " expletive deleted " . |
| 28 | Erm my metabolism was out the window . |
| 29 | The Edinburgh panel decided , however , that HLA alloimmunisation was simply a laboratory end point and that the evidence was inconclusive that filtered blood prevented platelet refractoriness and bleeding . |
| 30 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |