Example sentences of "was [adv] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although surrealism ( unlike contemporary postmodernism ) was rather self-consciously an avant-garde , the logic of the surrealist ethic involved a dispute of the very nature of avant-gardes . |
| 2 | His temperament , in fact , was rather more a golfer 's than a racing driver 's and I ca n't be sure that the likes of Arnold Palmer and other big sportsmen who 'd made good in the States were n't in some way role models for the young Mario . |
| 3 | In some cases this was rather literally the case — the syrupy domestic interiors beloved of German nineteenth-century painters began to reappear with pictures of the Fuhrer on the wall and the Volkischer Beobachter lying folded on the table . |
| 4 | Joseph was most probably a mason , carpenter , cartwright and joiner . |
| 5 | This was most probably a reflection of the common grazing systems found in those areas where all farmers were accustomed to working together . |
| 6 | It was most probably the closeness to the river that was the deciding factor in choosing the site , for the state of the roads at that time made it easier to travel by water . |
| 7 | It was most probably the cry of one of those . ’ |
| 8 | But by that time four of the enemy ships were wrecks , one was aground and two of the remainder sufficiently damaged to make it doubtful whether they would ever reach their home ports — which was most evidently the hope of the survivors , as they went through the difficult , desperate business of turning in the confined space and heading back out to sea . |
| 9 | The story of the weekend was most certainly the success of the team that travelled the full vast width of the country to emerge as only the second-ever to represent Newfoundland in the final . |
| 10 | For all the world too as though a man who everyone knew — even his cousin who did n't work with him — was a workaholic , had never taken work home , it was most definitely a bit much . |
| 11 | Most fell in line with the view that The Smiths would one day produce the perfect artifact and that ‘ Meat Is Murder ’ was most definitely a step in the right direction . |
| 12 | Birds and cats , as everyone knows , do not normally hit it off , and when Dawn met our cat , Jasper , this was most definitely the case . |
| 13 | There were places where it was effectively not the Principal but the local authority that was running the college — a tradition of detailed local authority control over further education Institutions that it was difficult to break even in developed institutions . |
| 14 | These were old hands , and Dawn Run was effectively still a novice . |
| 15 | It was presumably where the community was predominantly free that one finds continual buying and selling of land between peasant families and the consequent development of a group of more prosperous men in the community . |
| 16 | The cat was halfway up the tree , and it took Virginia quite a long time to reach it . |
| 17 | All the same , by the time he was halfway down the passage , she was coming back , staggering under the weight of a large , square , glass case . |
| 18 | As Miranda was halfway down the dark and narrow stairwell , she realised who it was who had so disarmed Madame that she had not scolded Marie-Angèle ( for not being downstairs to hand , to run the message up to Mlle Everard ) , or waited to reproach Miranda herself for allowing visitors to call without appointments and cause all this trouble to her hostess in the Hotel Davenant . |
| 19 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 20 | Whereas his beard was so clearly a compensation , a making up for unachieved virility , Gyggle 's beard was positively rampant , priapic . |
| 21 | She started to say that to her this sounded more like Khrushchev , and she stopped herself again ; the line was so clearly a proffering of comfort . |
| 22 | He said there was so far no evidence to link the brick-throwing with the stolen Nissan , but police were not ruling that out . |
| 23 | It was so obviously a panic reaction that it fooled nobody . |
| 24 | came in half way through it , at least half way erm but it was so obviously the voice of erm Freud , Clement Freud |
| 25 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 26 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 27 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 28 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 29 | Even the presence of the very famous actor indeed who had undertaken the part of Macbeth was hardly noticed ; after all he was so much a part of the English scene as to be , very nearly , taken for granted , though his performance was , as always , brilliant . |
| 30 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |