Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evolutionary theory gave a natural origin to human institutions instead of the supernatural origin which was the received and legally sanctioned view in much of nineteenth-century Europe , and if institutions and ideas had a natural historical origin they could be changed in changing conditions . |
| 2 | It explored the meanings of ‘ independence ’ and confronted the argument that the Council was itself a myth and the reality was the powerful and almost autonomous subject boards . |
| 3 | The rest of Rutland , of which it was the administrative as well as commercial hub , was measurably richer at £6.5 per capita , the slight tendency to a concentration of wealth at the top of the town community being offset by an exceptionally high proportion ( for this shire ) of labourers and poor men . |
| 4 | The peak of this system was the separate but often closely coordinated authority wielded by bishop and ealderman over the total shire . |
| 5 | Indeed , if any single scientific theory is to represent the advances of natural science in our period , and was recognised as crucial , it was the theory of evolution , and if any one figure dominated the public image of science it was the craggy and somewhat ape-like one of Charles Darwin ( 1809–82 ) . |
| 6 | The reason the plan went so sadly askew was the not-wholly-unexpected but extremely untimely death of Laura Stratton herself , though whether this was occasioned by her own complicity , excitement , remorse — whatever ! — we shall never really know . |
| 7 | Above all else it was the circumstantial and highly sympathetic accounts of complex and sophisticated tribal institutions and beliefs produced in the crucial inter-war period which finally destroyed the archaic stereotype of the rustic tribesman as a congenitally incapacitated simpleton , incapable of rational reasoning or civilized living . |
| 8 | The one you made nice and easy was the nice and even was the Y. |
| 9 | Morgenthau 's approach was also criticized for ignoring the domestic environment of states , for failing to specify whether human nature was the determining or merely one potential cause of political action , and for being unable to account for mistakes ( if human nature is based on objective laws , then how can individuals make mistakes ? ) . |
| 10 | It developed the direct-action methods of earlier campaigns into new and more dramatic forms and it took up an issue which was the central and most widely felt grievance of Derry Catholics — housing . |
| 11 | The differences between these two races of wild cat support the idea that it was the African that originally gave rise to the domesticated feline . |
| 12 | Brought in by his friendship with Bobby was the tall and often silent Owen Wood who turned sixteen soon after he entered Camberwell in October 1945 . |
| 13 | Here was the partial and still nuanced defiance of their respective Alliance masters that indicated both a German refusal of the role of victims in the superpower struggle and a sense in both German states that the room for manoeuvre was growing . |
| 14 | Then there was the elaborate and explicitly imperial ceremonial that surrounded the monarch in life and in death . |
| 15 | The necessity for a re-evaluation of tactics was further confirmed by the wave of counter-revolutionary repression which swept Latin America in the mid-1970s , the most dramatic example of which was the abrupt and extraordinarily violent termination of the Allende experiment by a Chilean military which for several decades had prided itself on respecting the nation 's democratic traditions . |
| 16 | It was the commercial as well as the administrative capital of England and the nation 's greatest port by far . |
| 17 | It was more than the feudal relationship between king and king-duke , it was the overlapping and ultimately the conflict of two growing structures of government . ’ |
| 18 | Best New Band was the smooth and highly wrought funk ensemble , Roadside Picnic ( it would be nice to think that the more raw-boned but full-blooded Pinski Zoo had run them close ) , Andy Sheppard walked off with both Best Instrumentalist and Best Album prizes ( the latter for Introductions In The Dark ) , and Stan Tracey picked up Best Composer . |
| 19 | ‘ They had met when he was a young and not tremendously enthusiastic policeman and she was a waitress in a seafront cafe . |
| 20 | It was held that the defendants were guilty of wilfully promoting racial hatred if they foresaw that hatred was a certain or morally certain consequence of what they were doing , even though it was not their purpose to promote hatred . |
| 21 | This was a horrific and very disturbing attack . |
| 22 | He was a brilliant but also a tortured thinker , in many ways a solitary and tragic figure , his personality marked by a tendency to depression , and by the decision he made in 1843 to break off his engagement to Regine Olsen . |
| 23 | It was a brilliant and classically simple construction , which created a formal beauty of line and curve , and facilitated constantly changing patterns of light , shade , and steam . |
| 24 | There was a sinister and often rehearsed entrance wearing a long cloak and looking like Count Dracula . |
| 25 | Industrial America was a pluralistic and highly organized society . |
| 26 | Lord himself was a capable but not an outstanding player . |
| 27 | With a wonderful smell of lemons and a tart/tangy flavour it was a dry and very pleasant . |
| 28 | This was a fascinating as well as instructional programme , written , narrated and produced by Barry Paine . |
| 29 | Thirdly , the move towards a national curriculum was resisted most strongly by those , mainly teachers and other educationists , who claimed that the nature and scope of the school curriculum was a professional and not a political matter . |
| 30 | Each of the organisations with which we had contact was a major or even the dominant local employer , and each was located in an area of high unemployment . |