Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [was/were] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 They 're doing another one now the that was a prototype .
2 The youngest was a boy of eigh eight the of twenty two .
3 Blanked out from the copy of the score shown in illus.4 presumably in the 1790s was a fleur-de-lys held by the cupid .
4 However , that there is no simple way of quantifying the strength of popular radicalism does not deny that the 1790s were a watershed in British political history .
5 The accused was a stallholder in a market .
6 The offences were committed over six years at the society 's museum at Comrie , initially when the accused was a trustee of the society and latterly when he was curator .
7 The second was a paperback , a romance set in Ancient Greece .
8 The second was a conviction that many of us had , that we do indeed have a great deal to offer , by way of expertise and consulting , from the campus .
9 The second was a cooking pot , black outside , polished and gleaming inside , solid and commodious .
10 The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the …
11 The second was a law enforcement action brought by the Crown ; he referred in particular to such an action brought under a statute which provided expressly for enforcement of a provision of the statute by civil proceedings by the Crown , which was the position in the Hoffmann-La Roche case [ 1975 ] A.C. 295 where the Crown was proceeding pursuant to a provision of the Monopolies and Restrictive Practices ( Inquiry and Control ) Act 1948 .
12 The second was a heart shot , but it turned on the breastbone .
13 The second was a report on restructuring the business in the run-up to privatisation .
14 The second was a woman with a brown suitcase .
15 The first list was a set of n-grams taken from a short dictionary ( 11,795 words ) , and the second was a list of n-grams taken from a larger dictionary ( 71,279 words ) .
16 The second was a glass dome , the size of a man , and a little taller than our hero .
17 Two incidents had drawn public attention to the Directorate in October : the first on Oct. 9 concerned an armed relative of Khasbulatov who was arrested by the police but released without charge ; the second was a shooting incident on Oct. 20 , involving police and three members of the Directorate .
18 The second was a gem :
19 The second was a letter to everyone who had volunteered , thanking them for offering to come , and saying when to turn up and what to bring .
20 The second was a reaction to the concept of the EEC as a ‘ rich man 's club ’ , discriminating against its own poor through the CAP and through its VAT rates , just as it discriminated against poorer countries elsewhere in the world .
21 The second was a showroom for garish '50s juke boxes .
22 And the second was a sort of .
23 • One senior Mercedes-Benz executive admitted the vulgar V12 badge on the C-pillar of the S-class was a triumph of marketing over design and quickly added that it was a delete option intended for the Japanese and Americans .
24 The code of practice of the Association of Funeral Directors describes every step of their procedures for dealing with a dead body but constantly emphasizes the need to behave with respect , the need to act ‘ as if the next-of-kin were standing at their elbow , or act as they would if the deceased were a member of their own family ’ .
25 The 1870s was a period of vigorous debate concerning the need to change Japanese society .
26 The second of the three was a nursery car for the use of the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne .
27 The worst was a coal merchant .
28 The 1940s were a decade split by the great peace that ended the last European war in May 1945 , but it has its own domestic character — a character soon to be forgotten by succeeding decades , though in The Girls of Slender Means ( 1963 ) Muriel Spark aptly called it a time when ‘ all the nice people were poor ’ .
29 The 1940s were a highpoint of British filmmaking .
30 ‘ Brian thought that the sendings-off were a bit unfortunate .
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