Example sentences of "[noun sg] was really the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | Was it possible this urchin was really the repository of cataclysmic sexuality as Ewan claimed ? |
| 3 | Rather , the moral goodness was really the power to produce a certain sort of pleasing sensation in the observer . |
| 4 | The achievement was really the beginning of ICI 's commercial catalyst business . |
| 5 | Last night was really the night I must value — the night when I was aware of all the gifts Amantani has borne me . |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |