Example sentences of "[noun sg] was clearly [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ?
2 Looking for a suspicious boat was clearly a job for the River Police , and they did it thoroughly .
3 For positivist criminology , as with its classical predecessor , crime was clearly a problem that begged a solution .
4 The killing in Hrothgar 's meadhall described in the ensuing passage was clearly the origin of the many Country House murders which were to feature in Hercule Poirot 's investigations .
5 But in 1979 the creation of peace was clearly a settling of an account : should a quarrel between a Zuwaya and men from Zliten occur in the future , that particular issue could not become a component element of it , for all the shaikhs concerned had agreed that the peace made was a good one .
6 The reason for the apparent lack of confidence was clearly the fact that Elsworth had suspended operations for some while because of coughing in his yard and had not had a winner for almost six weeks .
7 Further , Euric 's court was clearly a place of far-reaching importance .
8 The acquisition of a visa was clearly a matter of guile .
9 Bradwell was clearly a force to be reckoned with in the village .
10 One element in Crosland 's policy was clearly the belief that at least to some extent the future of the vocational or professional ‘ infrastructure ’ lay with a sector with an explicit commitment to promoting it .
11 Of the quintet Bradley looked to have the best chance : second in the Gold Cup in 1982 and a gutsy winner of the Hennessy , the nine-year-old Bregawn was clearly a chaser of great ability , though he had begun to show signs of temperament , being reluctant to line up for the start on occasion .
12 The first volume was clearly a success , attracting almost 600 subscribers , among them the Dukes of Bridgewater and Leeds , the Earls of Chesterfield , Arran , Gainsborough , Granville , and Pomfret , the Bishop of Gloucester , and many persons bearing lesser titles .
13 Held , dismissing the action , that a release by accord and satisfaction of one covenantor operated as a release of all other covenantors undertaking the same obligation ; that the landlord 's acceptance of the immediate surrender of the lease and the goods listed in satisfaction for releasing M. from all his liabilities under the lease was clearly a release by accord and satisfaction ; that there were no words of reservation or circumstances rebutting that construction ; and that the landlord had therefore released not merely M. but also the defendant company , as an intermediate assignee who had undertaken the same obligation ( post , pp. 483B–H , 484C ) .
14 The man was clearly a sadist .
15 Her insistence on the importance of middle-class women 's participation in social disciplining was clearly an attempt to guard against their displacement by the growing authority of state sanctioned professionals in the mid-Victorian period .
16 Polyneuritis was clearly a word like morality that meant so many different things as to be absolutely meaningless .
17 A third quick election was clearly a possibility .
18 The decision was clearly a surprise to him , for in the current issue of the LTA 's own magazine , photographs of both Jeremy and Jo are , as British team members , featured in a large article on the Olympic Games , which now becomes meaningless .
19 The decision was clearly a response to events at the Sept. 7-18 congress of the Congolese Trade Union Confederation , a specialized organ of the PCT , when delegates challenged the government to speed up the democratization process ( already agreed in principle by the PCT in July — see p. 37602 ) .
20 Bleath was clearly a man impatient of bureaucracy , anxious to get back to his lenses .
21 Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand .
22 Finance was clearly an anxiety , but it may even have strengthened Gloucester 's hand .
23 Despite his injury problems Aldaniti was clearly a candidate for the Grand National , and to the stricken Bob Champion the idea of winning the Liverpool race on this horse became an inspiration as he awaited his third course of chemotherapy .
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