Example sentences of "[noun pl] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The undoubted highlights in the Arts was the poetry reading by Sorley Maclean , Norman McCaig and Edwin Morgan , which was held in a packed Pathfoot Lecture Theatre and on which occasion the University was particularly pleased to welcome senior pupils from local schools . |
| 2 | The most controversial of all the legacies the eighteenth-century reformers bequeathed to their successors was the subordination of the Church as a political , economic , educational , and charitable institution to the supremacy of the State . |
| 3 | As impressive as the emotional force of the songs was the way their author had learned to marry complex lyrics to tunes which never sounded forced or over-extended . |
| 4 | An involuntary , but major , effect of Russian intrusion among the Siberian peoples was the introduction of diseases which were endemic in European Russia but , apparently , were unknown in northern Asia . |
| 5 | In Australia , Canada , and the Americas , killing native peoples was the method usually favoured by settlers . |
| 6 | Thus most forest and tundra peoples sacrificed reindeer , but it was a dog which was killed ( and eaten ) by those peoples ( Nanai , Ulcha , Nivkh and Koryak ) who used dog-teams for transport , while the sacrificial animal of the Buryats , Yakuts and other Turkic peoples was the horse . |
| 7 | I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing . |
| 8 | What should have been equally obvious to the assemblymen was the fury they were thus provoking , including megaphonic demonstrations by the opposition Democratic Progressive party to coincide with the students ' protests . |
| 9 | One of his eyes was the sun and the other the moon . |
| 10 | What brought tears of laughter to many eyes was the Irishman 's misinterpretation of Dad 's words . |
| 11 | The three remaining seats were won by members of the opposition alliance of the Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) and the Parti Mauricien Social-Démocrate ( PMSD ) who had held 13 seats at sissolution ; one of the successful opposition candidates was the alliance and MLP leader , Navin Ramgoolam . |
| 12 | One of the first examples to be discovered in animals was the opening of milk bottles in Britain by great tits , blue tits and coal tits . |
| 13 | The exploitation of fur-bearing animals was the incentive for much of the early exploration of North America . |
| 14 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |
| 15 | But effective pursuit of some of the revolutionary goals was the province of older men — of respected ‘ average Libyans ’ , who used their position and influence , their kinship connections and the respect they had earned , to persuade others to do things they thought desirable . |
| 16 | Also among the winners was the country 's King Juan Carlos . |
| 17 | ( 11 December 1780 ) One of Mozart 's worries was the castrato who was to sing the part of Idamante : |
| 18 | The overt rationale behind the new prescriptions was the desire to create a people which was truly holy to God . |
| 19 | Benefit of clergy was the exemption claimed by the clergy from lay or secular jurisdiction in certain criminal cases . |
| 20 | One key influence in the loosening of the relationship between the press and political parties was the decrease in the number of titles published and , in particular , of evenings and provincials ( see Table 3. 1 ) . |
| 21 | Tremayne was held in genuine respect and I saw more sympathy than smirks : yet he in many respects was the stoker of the ill-feeling between his warring jockeys , and putting me among them was n't a recipe for a cease-fire . |
| 22 | Although he was strictly fair in his reports and seldom expressed a particular preference , it is clear that one of the Colonel 's favourite restaurants was the Savoy . |
| 23 | One of the first major attractions was the Sir Hiram Maxim flying machine , opened in 1904 and still operating today ! |
| 24 | Uniform provinces and municipalities were the programme of radical liberalism in the Cortes of Cadiz ; the final redrafting of the political geography of Spain into provinces was the work of Javier de Burgos , admirer alike of Napoleonic administrative techniques and the enlightened servants of Charles III . |
| 25 | Training recruits was the subject of this week 's episode . |
| 26 | The favourite position in Rome chosen by the emperors was the Palatine Hill although , by the time of Constantine , it was necessary to search further afield because of lack of space . |
| 27 | Among many poor performances was the Chichester Cup , a wet race at Goodwood in which Reg Parnell 's V16 , its ridiculous torque curve and dreadful roadholding proving to be a hopeless combination on a slippery track , was humbled by an unsupercharged two-litre Maserati driven by Baron de Graffenreid . |
| 28 | A minor weapon in the fight against rival supporters was the use of the aerosol paint can . |
| 29 | Indeed , in what is perhaps a more healthy attitude to such matters , a diversity of methods and investigative postures was the order of the day . |
| 30 | Even less than with the designation of the polytechnics was the CNAA in the 1970s confronting a policy-driven situation . |