Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 2 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 3 | The triple shell was the traditional coffin for the burial vault and brick-lined grave . |
| 4 | The economic situation and the persistence of unemployment did help but the most obvious factor pushing Labour forward was the General Strike , which occurred between 3–12 May 1926 . |
| 5 | WHAT a mixed-up lover was the tawny owl which broke into a nature park night after night to pay court to a wooden model of a female owl . |
| 6 | The result of this injection of European blood was the original full-tabby cat . |
| 7 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 8 | Matching the model club conditions in its advanced thinking was the first-class training headed by Chapman 's right-hand man Tom Whittaker . |
| 9 | No less important to Reagan 's political future was the other part of his contract with General Electric which required him to spend 16 weeks a year touring GE plants around the country . |
| 10 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 11 | Paul Allen 's 21st-minute winner was the only entry on my score card , but the chaps from the WBC keeping tabs on Nigel Benn and Nicky Piper down the road at Ally Pally would have had a much busier afternoon . |
| 12 | Simpson 's first public building was the Gothic St Andrew 's chapel of 1816 . |
| 13 | While the Environment Commissioner had also initiated proceedings against Spain , Portugal and the Netherlands , it was understood that the British case was the only one in which a request to halt work had been issued . |
| 14 | The report — which examines the civil servants ' handling of the sale — is understood to question why British Aerospace was the only main bidder where detailed and full inquiries were made . |
| 15 | Reagan continued to assert that direct action was the only way to deal with terrorist countries like Libya and Iran and that he would not countenance any other approach . |
| 16 | And that less than a generation after British industry was the laughing stock of the world . |
| 17 | Obviously , what is or may be of importance to an employer 's business is a question of fact ; and it was no doubt significant in Swain that S was the general manager , the wrongful employee was the managing director , his conduct was dishonest and it could have had a material effect on the defendant 's business ( labelling meat as " Empire Products " when it was not ) . |
| 18 | In serving this ideal , one feature which gave the new English its peculiar potency was the cultural mystique endowed upon it by a vision of the qualities seen as inherent in the national literature . |
| 19 | Much of Derbyshire and parts of Wales had shallow stony soils whilst in Wester Ross , North Yorkshire and Wales the steep terrain was the determining factor . |
| 20 | Now his old home was The Mad House . |
| 21 | The masturbating child was the middle-class boy trapped within familial concerns and devotion . |
| 22 | Her only other published work was The Metrical Miscellany ( 1802 , 2nd edn. 1803 ) , an anthology of fugitive verse by contemporary celebrities , in which she also published twenty of her own poems ( including the hitherto uncounted prefatory verses of 1802 by ‘ The Editor ’ ) . |
| 23 | In this broad sense , sexual difference was the fundamental principle of his entire metaphysic , the terms in which its main absolutes , selfhood and wholeness , were realized . |
| 24 | By 1989 the largest Conservative back-bench group was the right-wing 92 Group . |
| 25 | His first proper group was The Lost Pandas , built around himself and his girlfriend . |
| 26 | Indeed , the one thing that spoilt this lively conference was the patronising references to women , district general hospitals , and general practice . |
| 27 | Apart from the mills at Framilode , the nearest water powered site was the long-demolished Whitminster Mill . |
| 28 | One of the qualities of jade that contributed most to social harmony was the musical nature of the notes it emitted when struck . |
| 29 | The assertion , by Mr Guy Woodall , 37 , of Leatherhead , Surrey , that his sparkling British drink was the 400-year-old tradition known as elderflower champagne did not stand up to analysis , said counsel Mr Nicolas Bragge . |
| 30 | One clear sign was the growing rejection of village headmen , or mukhtars , as village leaders . |