Example sentences of "[prep] [pos pn] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing I hated most about my pregnancy was the hot weather and my body changing I had quite a nice figure before but now along with the stretch marks , I hate my body . |
| 2 | Grudgingly , Brian was forced to say that he had always thought it odd , but if reticence about her past was the way his wife wanted it , then he had been prepared to accept the situation . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : I hope that my Pamela 's inclination for her persecutor was the strongest motive for her return . |
| 4 | A major reason for its success was the extreme reluctance of the army to run the power stations , largely because it did not believe that it could break the strike ( Ackroyd et al. , 1977 , pp. 64–6 ) . |
| 5 | The occasion for its appointment was the coming to office as Minister of Housing and Local Government of Mr Henry Brooke in January 1957 . |
| 6 | The price the French exacted for their support was the deployment of the Castilian fleet against England . |
| 7 | They were able to show that at least one of the reasons for their failure was the immigration of insects from surrounding , untreated areas . |
| 8 | I wo n't linger on the shingle flats , for I 'd come to climb , and the route of my choice was the first to be recorded in Wales . |
| 9 | The main flaw with the system of categorisation of my work was the omission of the teaching component of the majority of these activities . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ The most wonderful experience of my life was the day I went into Spain . |
| 11 | The first event of my trip was the seminar , the third arranged by the WA Association . |
| 12 | At the back of my mind was the feeling that I would bump into you in the street . |
| 13 | Brakeloads and omnibuses were arriving on Victoria Parade full of fresh supplies , and swarming down the High Street towards their mecca was the first cheap , fast trainload of ‘ Arrys and ‘ Arriets in search of entertainment . |
| 14 | Opposite her bedroom was the kitchen . |
| 15 | Opposite her shop was the Church of St. Mary Magdalene , erected in 1880 as a chapel of ease for the Parish Church of St. Martin . |
| 16 | The centre of their life was the abbey church , which still survives almost intact , the view through the east window of the wooded slopes being particularly memorable . |
| 17 | The soldiers who ran Greece until 1974 were similarly discredited , because one result of their folly was the occupation by Turkey of northern Cyprus . |
| 18 | But the injustice of their attitude was the undoing of their arguments . |
| 19 | An important part of their creed was the existence of classical measuring instruments . |
| 20 | Despite the much higher ammonia production in the H pylori positive uraemic patients , the nature and severity of their gastritis was the same as that in the H pylori positive non-uraemic patients . |
| 21 | The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm . |
| 22 | Part of its working was the recognition of sheer necessity ; as the old empire disintegrated , the tiny forces of the embattled Soviet republic could not hold it together . |
| 23 | One practical Mark of its survival was the doctrine of escheat . |
| 24 | But perhaps the greatest source of its downfall was the fact that there was no evidence that it was . |
| 25 | Yet the immediate cause of its demise was the change in Government . |
| 26 | Indicative of its militarism was the Christian forcefulness and enthusiasm for the pilgrimage to Santiago . |
| 27 | Burton-on-Trent is one of the chief centres of the brewing industry , and legend has it that the origin of its pre-eminence was the discovery by a medieval monk that water pumped from the local sandstone after seeping through deposits of gypsum gave beer an excellent flavour . |
| 28 | Dionysiac religion was a religion of initiates , , and at the centre of its worship was the mystical evocation of nature 's awesome unity , the primal unity concealed by our dismemberment into individuals , and the worshippers ' yearning for a recovery of that unity . |
| 29 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |
| 30 | The descent of her inheritance was the object of intense rivalry in the early 1470s between Clarence , who had married one of Warwick 's coheiresses , and Gloucester , who married the other . |