Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The minister explained that this kind of frontal approach was the wrong way to go about it with God . |
| 2 | The impetus for the development of this framework was the realization that a common point in discussions with managers of innovative activities was the issue of uncertainty . |
| 3 | The exploitation of fur-bearing animals was the incentive for much of the early exploration of North America . |
| 4 | Everyone knew that the only source of political acumen was the Shah himself , But by the end of 1978 , all that had changed . |
| 5 | One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned . |
| 6 | One of the factors widely deemed as critical to Miyazawa 's chances of short-term survival was the need to obtain Diet approval for the 1992 budget by April 1 , the beginning of the fiscal year . |
| 7 | A good example of the practical operation of interim measures was the Akzo case . |
| 8 | The result of this injection of European blood was the original full-tabby cat . |
| 9 | One of the major influences in this diffusion of European ideas was the missionary movement . |
| 10 | And the lowest of low points was the use of five captains in seven Tests in 1988–89 . |
| 11 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 12 | The organisation of the cohort of homosexual men was the same as for the cohort of drug users , and all serological and immunological tests were performed in the same laboratories . |
| 13 | ‘ So ? ’ he asked , as if overt state manipulation of popular entertainment was the most natural , acceptable thing . |
| 14 | As important as any of the functions of popular recreation was the simple element of " carnival " introducing moments of release into hard and humdrum lives . |
| 15 | Implicit in the use of direct observation was the need to work in the outside environment and to bring objects from the outside environment into the classroom . |
| 16 | Indeed , his only idea of historical development was the process of adding to the number of the elect , which at a certain fixed target would bring history to an end . |
| 17 | The peak of this pattern of medieval order was the diocesan authority , the bishop himself . |
| 18 | One of the glories of Old Clonmacnoise was the possibility of seeing a strange stone face staring from a broken column in a randomly-chosen clump of grass . |
| 19 | A symbol of lesser importance was the cross and its variants such as the star , wheel and swastika . |
| 20 | The primary issue of public policy was the duty to act with care with regard to another person . |
| 21 | He suggested that the main cause of social differentiation was the increase in population density . |
| 22 | Worst of all for the morale of ordinary Romanians was the ceremony in June 1978 , when the Queen knighted Him . |
| 23 | He suggested that a day or so of drunken dissipation was the result of a previous period of intense labour . |
| 24 | The second type of individual headhunter was the practical , down-to-earth type with more management experience at different levels than the blue-bloods , who identified the existence of a demand for skills in senior recruiting but who was not pretentious or elitist about it in any way . |
| 25 | Before Weismann , most evolutionary theorists , and in particular the Frenchman Jean Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744–1829 ) , had supposed that the main cause of evolutionary change was the ‘ inheritance of acquired characters ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | One of the features which most sharply distinguished Muscovy from western and much of central Europe was the relative backwardness of her commercial , manufacturing , and urban development . |
| 28 | In this situation one of the most important dimensions of uneven development was the inequality which resulted from differences between sectors and in particular from the economic fortunes of different sectors . |
| 29 | One of the main inspirations of Roman historians was the cult of ancestors and the propensity of noble families to commemorate their deeds . |
| 30 | Nearly two hundred years ago , Hahnemann considered that the treatment of chronic illness was the greatest challenge to medicine and he spent many years of his life working on this problem . |