Example sentences of "[noun sg] was really [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be easy to do so on the basis that his fusion of science and religion was really a confusion . |
| 2 | REMEMBER the man who made a fortune out of a book which claimed that the Old Testament was really the story of how extra-terrestrials landed on earth or , to put it plainly , that Elijah 's still small voice was a wee green man speaking in his ear ? |
| 3 | The so-called Executioner 's Axe was really a woodman 's axe on a long handle . |
| 4 | Was it possible this urchin was really the repository of cataclysmic sexuality as Ewan claimed ? |
| 5 | The old hag was really a mummer mouthing lines taught to her and , once her part was played , she too had to die . |
| 6 | Rather , the moral goodness was really the power to produce a certain sort of pleasing sensation in the observer . |
| 7 | ‘ So the Phantom was really a man ? ’ |
| 8 | The shed was really a garage but there was no car , just the carpets , two old cookers , and some broken chairs . |
| 9 | The achievement was really the beginning of ICI 's commercial catalyst business . |
| 10 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 11 | I would n't like to meet Caravaggio on a dark night and who can be sure that Darwin 's life-long illness was really the result of Chagas ' disease ? |
| 12 | One theory advanced was that Gouzenko had misunderstood his colleague and the other Elli was really an acronym for Guy Liddell who had run MI5 's ‘ B ’ Division in World War II and some people believed had also been a spy for the GRU . |
| 13 | His statement was really an invitation , an offer for her to think about , delivered in the confident style of one who was used to having his own way with women . |
| 14 | He , and others like him , were answered by Rousseau , who argues that the social contract which established private property was really the origin of exploitation and had to be replaced by a new social contract . |
| 15 | We could have gone back to the where we started and then we only paid a couple of hundred pounds a year for the land that they used to keep the grass cut and everything but the problem was really the area . |
| 16 | In 1986 , TV Guide published a cover story entitled ‘ Why American TV is So Vulnerable to Foreign Propaganda ’ , in which it claimed that the Libyan hit team story was really a figment of a KGB campaign to spread alarm and ‘ to destabilise public opinion in the west ’ . |
| 17 | Kington 's river trip was eight days on a slow boat in the company of U Thien San , who guided the writer on matters like whether it is customary to talk while eating with the Burmese , and whether the monk sharing their cabin was really a spy . |
| 18 | Because , apart from the emotion of the moment , what had made me take this decision was really a kind of pride : I had to see myself as someone who had done the ‘ right thing ’ . |