Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A more controversial element in popular feeling was the religious one . |
| 2 | But what held Delaney and Lawton in rigid shock was the lump of black , flesh-like jelly crawling over his face , covering it like some huge , abnormal slug . |
| 3 | Different but in perfect harmony was the grotto scene , dark and the darkness more and more revealed when a glow of the outer night entered . |
| 4 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 5 | Many more ( of varied political beliefs ) would argue that the obvious dividing line in human history was the October Revolution which took place in Russia , in its paradoxical way , during November 1917 . |
| 6 | For them the critical starting date in human history was the one in 1896 when British law was changed to allow motor-cars to be driven without a man preceding them on foot carrying a red flag . |
| 7 | And the ultimate development in disposable packaging was the TV dinner , the domestic version of the airline dinner , bought complete with disposable tray , containers , cups and utensils , all of them made to be thrown away . |
| 8 | Added to this differential in hourly pay was the effect of ‘ full-time ’ females working shorter hours , reducing their gross weekly earnings to 67.6 per cent of those of men . |
| 9 | His monument in clinical practice was the model child guidance service in the then Borough of West Ham . |
| 10 | The reading of some charts and graphs and also of information presented in tabular form was the only topic covered in the testing from this section . |
| 11 | Chapter 1 has described how one of the movements in seventeenth-century thought was the rejection of scholastic philosophy in general , and its account of scientific explanation in particular . |
| 12 | What undoubtedly stimulated great evolutionary changes in vertebrate history was the emergence of the first amniote egg . |
| 13 | Other States within the Assembly argued that an interest in maritime safety was the dominant condition , and that this was the prime purpose of the Organisation . |
| 14 | The most powerful weapon in twelfth-century warfare was the castle ; and the chief development in military technology in our period was in the architecture of castles and the technique of their destruction , and in siegecraft in general . |
| 15 | Now he was someone whose only real interest in pop music was the girls in the front row . |
| 16 | This fall in basal gastrin was the result of a fall in G17 from 6 pmol/l ( <2.4–25 ) to <2.4 pmol/l ( <2.4–23 ) ( p<0.001 ) representing a median fall of 40% . |
| 17 | The great success of a teaching programme in chemical theory was the Periodic Table of Dmitry Mendeleev , first published in 1869 . |
| 18 | Perhaps the most lethal blow in Thai boxing was the elbow strike to the temple , which is now banned . |