Example sentences of "[verb] was [det] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1	The most striking temper used was that of vegetable matter , known as grass-or chaff-tempering , perhaps added as a water-absorbing agent ( Brisbane 1983 , p. 254 ) .
2	The main method used was that of interval harmony , which is adaptable enough to fit in with most serial situations .
3	The method used was that of Burke and Axon as adapted from that of Lindahl et al .
4	The most influential model of such instruction to be produced was that of John Pecham , Archbishop of Canterbury ( 1279 – 92 ) .
5	The only group for which the estimated SMR was raised was that of patients aged under 20 years at diagnosis in which only one death occurred ( SMR=191 , 95% CI 5 to 1060 , χ 2 2 1 = 0.44 NS ) ( Table I ) .
6	An elementary problem which the Commissioner encountered was that of publicity .
7	It was , though , his rather better known colleague at Caltech , Linus Pauling , who proposed that the principle to adopt was that of structures that maximise the number of so-called hydrogen bonds between different amino acids in the polypeptide chain ( and who thereby forged the key which very rapidly unlocked molecular biology ) .
8	When the judge told him the only sentence he could pass was that of life imprisonment , Meehan said loudly and clearly , ‘ I want to say this , sir .
9	One of the first environmental hazards to be studied was that of desertification .
10	The subject also expanded greatly in scope from that of the study of leys , and one theme which began to be explored was that of folklore .
11	When our informants were encouraged to think of their own society in terms of groups or categories , the most basic distinction they made was that of sex and age .
12	The basis on which the vote was given was that of property .
13	The next wicket to fall was that of Ravi Shastri : Gooch caught him .
14	The force he unleashed was that of insubordination .

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