Example sentences of "[noun sg] was originally [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The church of St Peter , Vauxhall , was built between 1863 and 1865 on part of the area formerly occupied by the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens ; its altar is on the site of the Neptune Fountain , and the late-eighteenth-century house which adjoins the church and is now the vicarage was originally the home of the manager of the gardens . |
| 2 | The vehicle was originally a petrol but before I bought it the engine was replaced with a Gold Seal factory rebuilt diesel unit . |
| 3 | The village was originally the centre of the local community . |
| 4 | Brian Jewell in Fairs and Revels suggests that the queen was originally a man dressed as a woman , but George Burton believed the tradition began in 1789 during an attempted suppression of the ‘ sport ’ . |
| 5 | Ricotta was originally a whey cheese and therefore very low in fat , but whole or skimmed milk is sometimes added to give a richer cheese . |
| 6 | Brass Mill was originally a corn mill , but was briefly used for the production of the ‘ finest quality ’ brass pins . |
| 7 | Rock'n'roll was originally a revolt against straitlaced stuffy mores ( encountered in the family , at school , in the small town ) , but now it 's ‘ brainwashing media images and fantasies ’ , the very institution of pop itself , that we define ourselves against , Indiepop is fast becoming nothing but commentary on pop — The Membranes ' ‘ Death To Trad Rock ’ , Sonic/Ciccone Youth 's obsession with Madonna , Age of Chance 's ‘ Kiss ’ , Oblivion is forestalled because we are constantly made conscious that this is a reaction against . |
| 8 | Gwennap Pit was originally an amphitheatre created by mining subsidence , and it is said that tinners held their cock-fighting ‘ mains ’ ( matches ) in it , but in the eighteenth century John Wesley preached his fiery sermons to the large crowds of tinners and their families who gathered here . |
| 9 | The lower portion was originally a slaughterhouse and quoted as being 17th Century . |
| 10 | The whole concept of the love scene at the beginning was originally a dialogue scene . |
| 11 | Bobbin-making was originally a coppice industry — one of those that depended on a small plantation of selected trees for commercial use — in this case birch . |
| 12 | The theatre was originally a Salvation Army citadel , built when the Sally Army came to the town in 1888 . |
| 13 | GRAFTON UNDERWOOD AIRFIELD on the Geddington to Grafton Underwood road was originally the home of the 97th Bombardment Group and then the 384th Bombardment Group ( Heavy ) of the 8th Air Force . |
| 14 | Situated across from the main car park , the Walled Garden was originally a kitchen garden supplying vegetables for the Manor House . |
| 15 | The land was originally a corn field and runs in a long narrow strip , still bordered by fields . |
| 16 | The motif of the yoke was originally the emblem of Isabella of Castile , Mariana 's distant predecessor , who had been responsible for sending Columbus on his first transatlantic voyage in 1492 ; in other words she had been responsible for initiating the whole colonial process ( Fig. 12 ) . |
| 17 | Rolling Stone was originally a reaction to the underground newspaper look and bit by bit it got art direction and , you know , good illustration , good photography , for this and all that , and then I got in there and pushed the type stuff . |
| 18 | It has been suggested that the story was originally a parable aimed at the Pharisees , which is , in Mark , out of context . |
| 19 | The present building was originally a corn mill , and is thought to have been built around the mid-18th century . |
| 20 | ‘ This part of the kitchen was originally a coal shed and it was a very dark and dingy area , ’ Pauline explains , ‘ so we knocked down the adjoining wall and opened up the staircase that comes down into the corner of the kitchen . |
| 21 | Mgonja and others have sometimes ignored the fact that Swahili was originally the language of the coastal people and not spoken in the country as a whole . |
| 22 | It seems strange the parishioners would wish to burn their patron saint , but another theory suggests the effigy was originally a plaster statue taken from the church to avoid destruction after the Reformation . |