Example sentences of "was the [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I missed most at this occa , on this occasion was the opportunity for bible study , but I think getting pe er , a visitor of another kind there was able to visit some of the bible studies each morning . |
| 2 | " The precise point which was never treated in detail was the degree of imminence of the admittedly forthcoming dissolution of Turkey " . |
| 3 | It was the degree of darkness which took me by surprise . |
| 4 | ‘ From the credit managers ’ point of view the main concern was the degree of risk contained on the existing sales ledger . |
| 5 | The most amusing thing about the period of my engagement to Karen was the degree of role reversal involved . |
| 6 | One of its remarkable features was the degree of integration between text and illustrations , for the survey of southern German churches was a collaborative effort between Norbert Lieb and the publisher-photographer Max Hirmer . |
| 7 | It was biting , but she was censoring herself instinctively now , because Florian 's personality was truly one-dimensional , albeit in another way , and the only thing she had ever given him was the degree of tolerance his peculiar genius made his due . |
| 8 | On the floor above was the faculty of film making . |
| 9 | Long before there was the clatter of rotor blades above PE , a major base could be found on the southern edge of the airfield , this was 42 Air School ( AS ) , established at south End , in 1940 , and opened ‘ for business ’ in April 1940 as part of the joint Air Training Scheme . |
| 10 | Paramount among such activity was the spinning of wool for cloth or hose making . |
| 11 | I wondered if this was the pipeline to hell . |
| 12 | For Erastus , God , not the heavens , was the giver of form . |
| 13 | The ultimate achievement , notwithstanding the numerous new stations opened in the area during the last five years , was the reopening to passenger traffic of the Cynon Valley line to Aberdare ( closed in March 1964 ) with no less than eight new stations . |
| 14 | To the authorities , one of the most disturbing trends was the incidence of production control by workers in companies where management refused to re-open factories . |
| 15 | Perhaps most crucial , however , was the transformation of trade unionists from harmless cart-horses into mindless , vicious thugs . |
| 16 | I think the source of income here was the deposit of money upon the terms of the contract . |
| 17 | It is estimated that he trebled it in real terms — and this at a time when the population was stagnant , His most important innovation was the poll-tax in place of the household tax , which the peasantry had been able partially to evade by merging households . |
| 18 | To talk of the rights of the nation was one thing , to descend to the streets and appeal to the mob was unthinkable to magistrates whose obsessive concern was the preservation of order . |
| 19 | And there was the revolution in transport and communications which is still in progress , and which is a variable factor , producing pluses and minuses at different stages . |
| 20 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 21 | An important clue , however , to the true diagnosis in both was the finding of leucocytosis . |
| 22 | This was the fruit of victory . |
| 23 | At just the same time George Stephenson also invented a safety-lamp very like Davy 's ; but he did not know the principle on which Davy had designed his , and his lamp was the fruit of practice , of trial and error , guided by the general idea of restricting the supply of gas-laden air . |
| 24 | In Ghani v. Jones ( C.A. , 1970 ) Lord Denning suggested ( obiter ) that whatever the initial justification for the investigation , if the police happen on evidence of a totally unrelated offence , it might be reasonable to seize it , taking into account such factors as : ( a ) the fact that the material was the fruit of crime , the instrument by which the crime was committed or otherwise material evidence ; ( b ) the seriousness of the crime ( c ) the unreasonableness of the refusal to hand over the evidence . |
| 25 | Fornara 90A : Pausanias ) , and the site was geographically appropriate because the Persians had landed in 490 not far away at Marathon ; Poseidon meant rule of the sea , and a temple to him at Sounion was a fitting piece of arrogance , visible far out in the Aegean ; Ares was the god of war and Acharnai was the most warlike deme and the one with the most manpower ( Thuc. ii . |
| 26 | Also addressed as the Lord of the Host , Ganesa was the god of wisdom and success in Hindu mythology . |
| 27 | This was the fraction of time that separated Linford Christie from Olympic gold in the 100 metres four years ago . |
| 28 | More recently this argument has been stood on its head with the suggestion that it was the rise of factory production which caused the technological developments which have given us today 's machinery . |
| 29 | The emergence of nation states , initially in Western Europe and the US , depended upon two main conditions : one was the development of modern centralized government , undertaken by the absolute monarchs from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century , while the other was the rise of nationalism , embodying the idea of political self-determination for a social group which inhabits a definite territory , conceives itself as having a distinct ethnic and cultural character , and has embarked upon a struggle to establish popular sovereignty in place of dynastic rule . |
| 30 | ‘ Even though it was the rise of Nazism that eventually prompted me to write A Child of Our , the scapegoats of the North of England and especially the effect on the children remained very much in my mind . ’ |