Example sentences of "was the [adj] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 2 | And as for the Ark of Moses , this was the sacred chest fashioned at the foot of Mount Sinai to contain the sacred tablets of stone . |
| 3 | So too was the rhetorical advantage conferred on them by their command of microphones . |
| 4 | Was the inside door closed ? |
| 5 | There are examples of large castles at Niedzica , Czersk and Mir ( now in the U.S.S.R. ) , but one of the greatest was the vast complex built as the headquarters for the Teutonic Knights , on the river Norgat , an arm of the Vistula , 35 miles south of Gdansk . |
| 6 | Or was the colonial thrust resented and opposed ? |
| 7 | Cornelius Vermuyden was the Dutch expert employed by the earl and his ‘ co-adventurers ’ , as the promoters of the scheme called themselves . |
| 8 | That figure may slightly nonplus a reader nurtured in these Caledonian climes ; and his bewilderment will not be lessened when he discovers that £600 was the annual rent charged for the same accommodation in 1912 . |
| 9 | The only hard part about this operation was the regular watchkeeping split between our six-man crew throughout twenty four hours , but the time passed pleasantly enough at first . |
| 10 | All that remained of the laughter of that morning was the cardboard box filled with dead peonies and shoved against the wall in the corner by the sink . |
| 11 | With one notable exception , a factor common to all these very different approaches to policy formulation was the negligible role allowed to health and social services personnel . |
| 12 | The game was enjoyed by all who took part as was the post-match hospitality supplied by the Borders team . |
| 13 | The immediate spur to both these events was the marital dilemma faced by the English king , Henry VIII . |
| 14 | This was known as Chrism Fee , the Holy Chrism was the consecrated oil used in the rite of baptism and distributed at Easter to churches in the Bishopric of Rochester . |
| 15 | Johnston v Chestergate ( cited at 13.7.2 ) was the principal authority relied on in Burgess v Purchase & Sons ( Farms ) Ltd [ 1983 ] Ch 216 , where auditors explained how their valuation of the shares in question had been arrived at . |
| 16 | At one time though , the Travellers Letter of Credit was the principal instrument used by the wealthy doing the Grand Tour of Europe . |
| 17 | Of far more significance to the war itself , however , was the political price represented by acceptance of Communist leverage within Republican Spain , and all that this proved to carry with it : interference in the composition of cabinets and the formulation of strategy ; the reversal of social revolution ; the persecution of political enemies ; and the steadily declining popular morale . |
| 18 | More serious , probably , was the extensive deforestation carried out by neolithic farmers from around 8000 BC onwards : a deforestation which , for example , denuded Scotland in the centuries before the Romans came . |
| 19 | However , only at the end of the latter decade was the communist government replaced by a democratically elected government committed to comprehensive reform , involving liberalisation of prices , extensive privatisation , and related policies . |
| 20 | Equally depressing , in its implicit rejection of the notion that merit deserves reward , was the cynical appeal made to the lower castes and the Muslims by V. P. Singh 's Janata Dal Party . |
| 21 | Nor was the rural landscape omitted from such initiatives : the National Trust was founded in 1895 to secure the permanent preservation of places and buildings of " beauty " and of " historic " interest ; that is , to sustain the national heritage in its physical and geographical aspects . |
| 22 | The strongest ideological current in the Cortes was the historic constitutionalism associated with the works of Martínez Mariana . |
| 23 | This was the stark warning given by Professor David Harvey of Newcastle University , when he presented the first in a series of Northern Foods ' milk industry papers . |
| 24 | This was the heart-stopping moment shared by millions of TV viewers yesterday when the Italian ace cheated death in a spectacular 100mph crash . |
| 25 | Was the poor relief paid to able-bodied workers over-generous to the extent that it not only created a dependency culture by reducing the incentive to work , but put a premium on early marriage and on childbirth ? |
| 26 | The underlying cause for this decision was the awful damage caused by the savage winter of 1709 . |
| 27 | When Prime Minister John Major stood up in Parliament yesterday , he was the mere messenger sent at the end of a marital power struggle to announce a victory that belonged to Diana . |
| 28 | Only high spot from what should have been a red letter day was the terrific £300 raised for the local Hartlepool hospice . |
| 29 | Hers was the only bicycle attached to these particularly well-painted railings , and her soul cringed . |
| 30 | Religion was the only subject treated by the Khmer artists of the Angkor period : temples were lavishly embellished with sculptures of gods and goddesses , and bridges represented the rainbows that united people and their gods . |