Example sentences of "of the [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't blocking anything , and at the end of the alley was the street ; he 'd probably pick up a ticket between now and the time of the meeting , but that would be a small price to pay for the convenience of having less than a couple of hundred yards to drag her . |
| 2 | Accompanying these changes in the policy and organisation of the church was the growth of new developments in theology , which have come to be known as the Theology of Liberation . |
| 3 | In the greatest matters , the universal testimony of the Church was the guarantee of truth . |
| 4 | The weakness of the Church was the wasteful distribution of its resources relative to its recognized social functions . |
| 5 | Most prejudicial to the reputation of the Church was the sin of simony , the buying of something of spiritual value for money , such as ecclesiastical office or advancement , or charging for ordaining a clerk or for the performance of any other spiritual service . |
| 6 | Explicit in the design of the projects was the attempt to achieve these aims without diverting traffic to other areas — in other words there was to be a genuine experiment in calming existing traffic in situ , not simply exporting the problems to other districts . |
| 7 | The home of the Ba was the body in the tomb , but it was able to go out freely and bring back life to the body and thus preserve the deceased 's identity on earth . |
| 8 | But it very The belt was there , now in the classroom the master had a desk and at the side of the desk was the belt . |
| 9 | Miles Cursham of ‘ Furious ’ , the Commander Flying , that the object of the operation was the safe delivery of the Hurricanes to Malta but my protest went unheeded . ’ |
| 10 | Lo Cascio was said to have established links with Colombian and Venzuelan drug cartels , while the financial side of the operation was the work of Ulrich Bahl , a German businessman who for some months had been imprisoned in the USA on charges of passing forged banknotes . |
| 11 | An interesting sign of the times was the Ladies ' request in 1937 to have a bar-hatch cut into the lounge , at their expense , but despite Mrs. J. Chalcraft and Miss Lorna Simmons attending a main Committee to put the case , their request was lost 7–3 , although a referendum on the subject came close to being conducted . |
| 12 | Part of the problem was the less than perfect relationship between the Air Ministry and BOAC , which would have to operate the new aircraft . |
| 13 | The most probable cause of the problem was the males being infertile . |
| 14 | One of the roots of the problem was the sharp cutback of financial resources provided by the centre , but this needs to be seen alongside the emergence of strongly ideological politics at both central and local levels . |
| 15 | The problem experienced when using actual income to measure expected income would disappear under this two-stage procedure , since the source of the problem was the correlation between v t and the measure used for . |
| 16 | The president of the council was the High Priest . |
| 17 | More important was Pope John 's statement that the purpose of the Council was the aggiornamento of the Catholic Church . |
| 18 | The year of the council was the year of an eclipse ( HE 11 , 27 ) , which took place on 1 May 664 , and an outbreak of plague ( HE 111 , 27 ) . |
| 19 | One of the most successful initiatives on the part of the Council was the Lothian European Lectures 1992 . |
| 20 | It is likely , particularly if one allows for the gaps in the 1474–75 returns , that the period when London secured its massive commercial lead over the rest of the country was the last quarter of the fifteenth and the first quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 21 | At yesterday 's opening of the first multi-party parliament in 26 years , the president said that the management of the country was the responsibility of Kenyans and no-one else , and promised that his government would present its own economic strategy . |
| 22 | It seemed to me that the warm and welcoming hospitality of the Undercroft was the ‘ heart ’ of the whole enterprise , while , of course , the prayers for a hungry world said every day in the Chapel , were its ‘ soul ’ . |
| 23 | A notable casualty of the reshuffle was the Minister for Institutional Relations , Antoine Ntashamaje , who was dismissed apparently because his son had been linked to the rebel activity . |
| 24 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Sept. 24 stated that the main feature of the reshuffle was the replacement of three graduates of Chulachomklao Military Academy 's Class 5 , the powerful graduating group of 1958 led by Suchinda and former army commander Gen. Issarapong Noonpakdi . |
| 25 | A significant element of the reshuffle was the effective removal of the Yang brothers , the country 's military " strongmen " , from the power equation . |
| 26 | The keynote of the reshuffle was the dilution of the Falangist predominance visible until then . |
| 27 | The centre of the revolt was the village of Donja Stubica , some 24 km ( 15 miles ) north of Zagreb . |
| 28 | The climax of the fortnight was the Grand Edwardian-Ball , which was the most important occasion of the whole winter , and thinking up suitable costumes for this event kept the ladies occupied for weeks beforehand . |
| 29 | The major development of the session was the introduction of Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) . |
| 30 | The distant border of the enclosure was the river itself , sweeping in serpentine curves round the perimeter . |