Example sentences of "was indeed [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Averaging the EEG over forty such self-initiated movements , Libet found that there was indeed a time-locked negative shift beginning about 550 msec before the movement . |
| 2 | The female transvestite was indeed a deeply disturbing figure in the early seventeenth century . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Wilson ’ , he said , ‘ is imposing on Prince Charles a sacrifice which he would not dream of imposing on his own son. , It was indeed a sacrifice and one from which many a twenty-year-old would have turned and run . |
| 4 | Compared to his first collector , Peggy Guggenheim , or to his first apologist , Clement Greenberg , or to the art critic , Harold Rosenberg who invented the term Action Painter for him , he was indeed a goy and a redneck . |
| 5 | By pointing out a flower or describing a rarity he could make a walk supremely interesting and was indeed a charming companion on any expedition in the fields . |
| 6 | In June 1981 the CPRS reported back that there was indeed a commercial case for electrification but that the programme should be endorsed route by route rather than in some all-embracing fashion . |
| 7 | ( It was indeed a very low reading . ) |
| 8 | Reagan 's testimony was indeed a dramatic summation of sorts , and the most bizarre of all . |
| 9 | Taking Harry gingerly with me I moved to the left , towards the wall , and with great relief found that there was indeed a walkway there at about the height of my waist . |
| 10 | I took a breath and pulled myself hand over hand down the curtain , seeking to find the bottom of it with my feet : and there was indeed a gap between the bottom edge of the curtain and the mud , but only a matter of inches , and there was clutter down there , unidentifiable , pressing against the barrier , trying to get past it . |
| 11 | It is one of the greatest examples of the age of a woman who had stern awareness that high birth was indeed a matter of high responsibility . |
| 12 | So it is surprising to discover that the substance of Proofs was indeed a three-page essay in Granta — especially when one considers the puritanical intellectual rigour that characterises Steiner 's literary style . |
| 13 | This is because , of course , ballet was indeed a diplomatic service , the USSR 's most potent cultural export . |
| 14 | If only prudent allowance is made for the loss of Sir Charles 's personal cross-party vote , the participation of three other candidates and the tactical switch of a significant number of Labour supporters , it will be seen that Mr Taylor 's defeat was indeed a close run thing . |
| 15 | The idea of an ‘ internal world ’ is not however new in ethology ; it was indeed a prime preoccupation of one of its key founding fathers , Jacob von Uexküll , who through studies of the perceptual apparatus of a variety of species deduced the nature of the experiential worlds to which they gave rise . |
| 16 | There had been women writers of the Restoration whose reputations were unassailable , notably Katherine Phillips , but to publish was indeed a risk . |
| 17 | Ironically , the latest historical theorists claim as very likely the idea that the first king of the city of Rome was indeed a Romulus . |
| 18 | It was Dr Kiwi not ‘ Dr Kayewe ’ as Mrs Zamzam remembered , and Dr Nathan not ‘ Dr Natani ’ , but there was indeed a woman doctor called Miriam just as Mrs Zamzam had said . |
| 19 | Worn out with his own personal brand of window shopping ; all that staring and never buying anything , all those shop windows , all those men to stare at and not dare follow , as if there was indeed a sheet of plate glass between him and them . |
| 20 | Only then did it strike me that there was indeed a role that a further staff member could crucially play here ; that it was , in fact , this very shortage that had been at the heart of all my recent troubles . |
| 21 | It was indeed a difficult time . |
| 22 | We arrived at the ski chalet just about dusk one Sunday evening and the scene was indeed a happy one , with scores of city folk having a gay old time , well wrapped in woollen jumpers and cardigans , and equipped with the necessary skis and poles . |
| 23 | It was indeed a performance to get your hair cut there as the two elderly unmarried brothers quite unwittingly put on a music hall act . |
| 24 | At this time none of the tobacco companies had issued cards since early in the war , so this shoe box , mostly full of sets , was indeed a treasure . |
| 25 | He was indeed a carpenter , and spent his spare time carving small wooden toys for his children . |
| 26 | It was indeed a serious thought . |
| 27 | It echoes many other tributes to his industry ; and it shows that he was indeed a good family man . |
| 28 | The discovery of X-ray diffraction in 1912 made a significant difference too : it then became possible to determine unambiguously whether a small , hard crystal was indeed a diamond . |
| 29 | There was indeed a wild ambition about the Round Tablers ' schemes and dreams which belied the unvarying reasonableness of their prose . |
| 30 | Brigadier Canford , who was indeed a lover of pretty girls , looked at Perdita 's impassive , dead-pan face , and had a strange feeling he 'd seen her before somewhere . |