Example sentences of "[art] [adj] was 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 | The accused was a stallholder in a market . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The second was a paperback , a romance set in Ancient Greece . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The second was a cooking pot , black outside , polished and gleaming inside , solid and commodious . |
| 9 | 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 … |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The second was a heart shot , but it turned on the breastbone . |
| 12 | The second was a report on restructuring the business in the run-up to privatisation . |
| 13 | The second was a woman with a brown suitcase . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | The second was a glass dome , the size of a man , and a little taller than our hero . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The second was a gem : |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The second was a showroom for garish '50s juke boxes . |
| 21 | And the second was a sort of . |
| 22 | • 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 . |
| 23 | The 1870s was a period of vigorous debate concerning the need to change Japanese society . |
| 24 | The second of the three was a nursery car for the use of the Prince of Wales and Princess Anne . |
| 25 | The worst was a coal merchant . |
| 26 | The intercensal period of the 1970s was a decade of unprecedented decentralization in the UK , USA , and elsewhere , over more extensive geographical scales than hitherto ( Champion 1983 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I think the 1970s was a time when people were beginning to take a little bit more pride in their motor cars . |
| 28 | In summary , the 1970s was a period when inequality and gender were publicly debated , when unions , largely to further their own interests , were trying to redress the powerlessness of women within their organisations , and when sociologists first recognised gender as an indispensable concept for the analysis of productive relations of the workplace and reproductive relations of the home . |
| 29 | As part of a journalistic and sociological school of film-viewing , Haskell 's work tended to ask ‘ why this film now ? ’ ; this approach assumes by and large that unambiguous answers can be given , that ideology ( sexism ) can be ‘ read off ’ the film text , as , for example , in Haskell 's well-known argument that the violence against women and the absence of big female leading parts in the films of the 1970s was a matter of a backlash against an emerging women 's movement . |
| 30 | Is it really that long ago since ALF carried out a bombing campaign during which one of the injured was a child in his pushchair , almost killed by flying shrapnel ? |