Example sentences of "[noun sg] was the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 2 | Religion was the base for the principles of society and they are all for the good and well being of society . |
| 3 | The final development to create a more highly dynamised remedy was the change of the dilution factor from 1:100 to 1:50,000 . |
| 4 | His first disappointment was the lack of a porter to carry his bags . |
| 5 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 6 | The aim which obsessed military thinking was the winning of a decisive battle soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 7 | Maybe grief was the price of wisdom and maturity . |
| 8 | Grief was the climate in which he worked and he had inured himself to it . |
| 9 | In our bilateral aid the main need was for carefully targeted and flexible assistance in the form of advice , skills and training and our response in this area for our bilateral aid was the creation of the know how fund for the former Soviet Union and for central and Eastern Europe . |
| 10 | The Lothian and Borders Fire Brigade was the subject of a BBC television programme recently . |
| 11 | Adamus was the Prince of Darkness . |
| 12 | Say , for example , that your chosen card was the king of diamonds . |
| 13 | That card was the ace of clubs and Mr Roebuck won a fortune . |
| 14 | That card was the ace of spades — the death card ! |
| 15 | Central to the deal was the reduction of the intervention ( buying-in ) price for grain by 29 per cent to ECU110 per tonne — a price slightly above world market prices , but below average EC production costs ( ECU1=US$1.26848 as at May 22 , 1992 ) . |
| 16 | But the central issue of the early New Deal was the problem of industrial and agricultural recovery . |
| 17 | The deal was the culmination of a year of talks between Adobe and Sun on how to bring technology market , says Ybarra , the initial plan being to implement a joint product strategy without actually signing a formal agreement . |
| 18 | The impetus behind the NBA was the problem in Victorian times of widespread and severe price cutting in the retail book trade , which was seen as a threat to the viability of booksellers and publishers . |
| 19 | The KSA was the brainchild of seven independent kitchen specialists , who formed the body in 1977 to increase the professionalism of the UK kitchen industry . |
| 20 | Secondly , under-reporting can be further suspected because no cases of endometriosis were reported in the 14% of the population in whom female sterilisation was the method of contraception . |
| 21 | A corollary of baptismal regeneration was the need for the death-bed conversion of poor children , who had been left in ignorance of the truths of religion . |
| 22 | All that was necessary to bring it on in more or less its full force was the sight of the Bible , its cover or open page , or its mere name , or the sight of a church , or the sound of any bell ringing solemnly , from Big Ben down to the bell of the Sunday muffin men . |
| 23 | The only driving force was the power of God , which somehow transcended the ordinary laws of Nature to impose a purposeful direction on the ascent of life . |
| 24 | The driving force was the expense of in-patient care , and both insurance companies and government agencies were seeking cheaper alternatives . |
| 25 | A similar revolutionary force was the employment of women to provide food for farmers and hired hands , particularly during harvest . |
| 26 | Thus the generation of the framework of British child welfare legislation never derived simply from the interests of the child ; instead the dominant force was the need for social regulation . |
| 27 | Attached to the ring was the piece of wire he used to pick locks . |
| 28 | The manor was the heart of the village . |
| 29 | The specific issue which had brought down Syse 's coalition was the insistence by the Centre Party ( SP ) , representing in the main the heavily protected and subsidized agricultural sector and with a long-standing tradition of opposition to the European Communities ( EC ) , that Norway retain its so-called concessionary laws which impeded foreign ownership of property , financial institutions and industrial enterprises . |
| 30 | The only significant political grouping excluded from the new ruling coalition was the Party for Peace and Democracy ( PPD ) , led by Kim Dae Jung , which drew its support mainly from Cholla province and the city of Kwangju , in the comparatively underdeveloped south-west of the country . |