Example sentences of "[num] [pron] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The number of strikers receiving supplementary benefit has always constituted a very insignificant proportion of the total number of persons on strike the lowest figure was 0.12 per cent in 1962 and the highest was 14.46 per cent in 1972 which was the year of the miners ' strike . |
| 2 | 2 There was the notion of the collective responsibility of the Cabinet or Government . |
| 3 | Of all the German patriotic associations that sprang up along the eastern borders in the 1890s it was the Ostmarkenverein , the Eastern Marches Society founded in 1894 , that was to have the most profound impact on German border society . |
| 4 | In 1560 it was the home of Michael Benson , wool clothier , one of three brothers , who owned most of the freeholds between Rydal and Clappersgate . |
| 5 | 2 WHAT WAS THE WAGE GIVEN TO THEM & WAS THIS SUFFICIENT ? |
| 6 | And number three whose was the signet ring which is sometimes known as the fisherman 's ring ? |
| 7 | In 1802 the Reverend John Piggot sold the manor , and it passed through Hattons , Agaces , Ferards and Schoolcroft Burtons ; from 1901 until 1920 it was the dower house to the widowed Lady Wantage . |
| 8 | By the beginning of 1941 it was the monarchist lobby which seemed most in need of this reminder . |
| 9 | From 1967 to 1975 he was the Ford Foundation 's representative in Nairobi , and was responsible for developing an innovative and highly influential programme to support the process of Africanisation . |
| 10 | In per capita terms , Venezuela 's long history as an oil exporter — between 1929 and 1969 it was the world 's leading exporter — has made it the richest country in South America . |
| 11 | From 1708 he was the City mason , and in 1720 was appointed master mason to Westminster Abbey . |
| 12 | The British Friesian quickly became very popular and by the late 1940s it was the country 's dominant breed , although it was sometimes decried for being uglier , having a worse udder and giving lower quality milk than the Ayrshire and the Shorthorn . |
| 13 | From the reign of Henry VIII to that of George II it was the practice of the various probate courts to insist that ‘ a true and perfect inventory ’ of the personal estate of the person who had died should be attached to his will or the letters of administration . |
| 14 | But once again the money ran out before sufficient audiences could be attracted to the new policies of temperance and self-improvement , and in 1884 it was the millionaire textile manufacturer and Liberal MP , Samuel Morley [ q.v. ] , who came to the rescue of Emma and her theatre with interim funding , which led eventually to support from the charity commissioners and other private sponsorship with which , in 1891 , Emma Cons was able to buy the freehold of the theatre and dedicate it to musical and other entertainments of an uplifting or educational nature . |
| 15 | When I was 17 it was the place I most wanted to be |
| 16 | In 992 it was the ships of London and East Anglia alone which met the Scandinavians and were defeated , and this implies that the fleet may have been dispersed around the coast . |
| 17 | For example , in the spring of 1986 there was the Family Snaps Affair . |
| 18 | Lord Bridge did not in fact refer to section 6(1) of the Act of 1977 which was the precursor to section 69(1) , but I accept that he must be assumed to have had it in mind . |
| 19 | Prior to the passing of s. 3 of the Civil Liability ( Contribution ) Act 1978 it was the law that judgment against one partner was a barrier to further proceedings brought against other partners for the recovery of the same partnership debt . |
| 20 | Er Mr has referred to site number five which was the A six one north of Killinghall and because we 've already had this discussion , I would presume the inner relief road would have dramatically changed those figures there . |
| 21 | Yet this still represents over double the figure of 80,000 which was the divorce rate in 1971 . |
| 22 | If the DEA was unable to organise rapid growth in conjunction with a stable balance of payments , then one of the objectives had to give , and in 1966 it was the growth target which was abandoned . |
| 23 | In the 1990S it was the end of the road that started with living on credit like everyone else on the scale of everyone else , became slightly more extended than most and then wholly unmanageable . |
| 24 | This is now the responsibility of the social services department , but until 1970 it was the job of welfare departments . |
| 25 | 1 What was the relationship between the surgeon and the boy ? |
| 26 | In 1943 it was the flagship of a 35-strong fleet of vessels which braved the U-boat infested waters of the North Sea and Arctic Circle to get supplies through to Russians in Murmansk . |
| 27 | When he built a bungalow for himself at Kinmel Bay in 1971 it was the start of a house-building career which was to lead to the receiving of important awards at national ceremonies in top London hotels . |
| 28 | Though no long regularly used as a market place , the Grassmarket received its charter from James III in 1477. it was the scene of the Porteous Riots described in Scott 's Heart of Midlothian , the haunt of the Burke and Hare murderers and the scene of public hangings . |
| 29 | Pick in brought an action against the Board , claiming that by virtue of s. 259 he was the owner of that land to mid-track . |
| 30 | In Reg. v. Secretary of State for the Home Department , Ex parte Brind [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 696 it was the Crown , at p. 741f , which invited the court to look at Hansard to show that the Minister in that case had acted correctly . |