Example sentences of "[art] other was the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The other was the knowledge , inexplicable and certain , like all knowledge in dreams , that he would find something deadly inside the last box .
2 On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum .
3 The other was the sense of injustice experienced by the subordinate classes at seeing the scheme dropped .
4 The other was the ability of Louis-Napoleon to make use of his legal position and his popularity with the masses .
5 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 .
6 One was my convict , and the other was the man who had run away when I had seen him near the shelter .
7 One was the work of Abdulnabi al-Hatash and his Majbari assistant in consultation with the leaders of their dependent groups ; the other was the work of the shaikhs of three of the five Zuwaya sections , who had consulted with Sulaiman Musbah and his brother Bil Qasim and other young men .
8 The other was the publication of a paper by John Schwarz and Mike Green of Queen Mary College , London , that showed that string theory might be able to explain the existence of particles that have a built-in left-handedness , like some of the particles that we observe .
9 There were two snags to the shoes : one was that there was no cushioning whatsoever for your feet , and the other was the dye .
10 The other was the search in living tissues for the carriers or agents which determined these properties , i.e. the genes responsible for producing them in successive generations .
11 One was the outrage caused by the Anatomy Act , which was briefly described in chapter one ; the other was the onset of cholera , beginning in 1832 , the year in which the hated Act came into force .
12 Two periods were especially prosperous for courtiers and officials : one was the minority of Edward VI and the other was the reign of James I , when the Scottish monarch bid lavishly for the favour of his new subjects .
13 They will both claim that they were unfairly dismissed because the other was the culprit but that is not the issue .
14 The other was the face of a man with black hair and dark , deep eyes — Black Michael .
15 The other was the rule developed in the seventeenth century , whereby claims on a bill of exchange are treated as separate from those on the underlying transaction .
16 Certainly , Coleman and no other was the route of entry into the College and into the army veterinary service .
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