Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The teaching of religion was always a feature of the curriculum , and until 1988 was the one subject legally required . |
| 2 | Religion was more a background , a context . |
| 3 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 4 | Religion was sometimes a mixture of Celtic , Roman and Christian beliefs and this affected the rites at death ceremonies . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Springall was also a moneylender , a usurer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | , 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 " . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The speed of the upswing was largely the result of the scale of monetary and fiscal stimulus given to the system as a whole . |
| 18 | The great problem of uniformitarianism was always the amount of time needed to explain what was known to have happened in the history of the earth ( including the evolution of all its species ) if one could only Postulate present processes . |
| 19 | In fact , her mate Klono had been killed and dragged off by a leopard one night when her son Krono was about a year old . |
| 20 | She preferred it to preparing food , and took the greatest care to see that each piece of cutlery was exactly an inch from the edge of the snow-white damask cloth . |
| 21 | Many windows were shattered all over Edinburgh , including many at Donaldson 's — its most grievous loss was perhaps the oriel window in the chapel famed in Scotland as one of its earliest figure-stained windows . |
| 22 | Ursula 's interruption was almost a scream . |
| 23 | The result was patently a fraud , in Davidson 's words . |
| 24 | The result was precisely the opposite of that intended . |
| 25 | The end result was definitely a cut above the average village manor , with its pediment thrusting forward , its roof line to match , and the strong outline of the window casing , all echoing baroque . |
| 26 | The decision to contest the election was taken against McGonagle 's advice , but the percentage result was almost a re-run of 1962 , with 7,825 votes for McAteer and 4,371 for Quinn , a percentage of 35.8 for Independent Labour . |
| 27 | The result was certainly an improvement . |
| 28 | The Iranian embassy issued a statement saying the murder was probably the result of a settling of old scores within the Iranian opposition . |
| 29 | The club was previously a magnet for the North-East rave culture . |
| 30 | Factory greyness had dulled the senses and while the club was still the place to be , it certainly was n't the place to play . |