Example sentences of "that [art] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 31 | He did not think that the boy was the actual thief and he hoped that the boy would not be punished . |
| 32 | He also opened fertile chicken eggs and concluded , falsely , that the heart was the first organ to develop . |
| 33 | ‘ I do n't know , ’ said a senior foreign ministry official , agreeing that the question was the right one . |
| 34 | I used to go up past there believing the that the minister was the the represented the Antichrist . |
| 35 | We would have actually liked to have told her that the man was the Secretary of State for Wales and a member of the Cabinet ! |
| 36 | In Lord Dundas 's patronage book , for example , an entry states that one of Dundas 's political friends , Colonel Erskine , wished Mr. McVay , the officer of excise at Denny in Stirlingshire , to be advanced in rank , citing as the reason for seeking such promotion that the man was the son-in-law of Napier of Craigannet , a freeholder of the county . |
| 37 | Certainly , it justified the rebellion as a military duty , necessary to save the Fatherland from anarchy ; but it did not say that the objective was the overthrow of the Republic . |
| 38 | Some of those who had supported the 1936 rising had done so in the belief that the objective was the overthrow of the Popular Front , but not of the Republic itself . |
| 39 | When an American rang the busy news-desk of City Radio 's ‘ Good Morning ’ show , the call was taken by a girl trainee who later tearfully admitted she had not thought to query the claim that the speaker was the Press Counsellor from the American embassy with a genuine news-bulletin . |
| 40 | Early in the 1880s , Waterman realized that the problem was the feed . |
| 41 | I was summoned to the matron ( the then equivalent of director of nursing services ) who thanked me for telling her , but asked whether I was aware that the consultant was the most senior in the faculty , and probably one of the world 's most eminent ? |
| 42 | Given this , the clitoris was rather a problem , because to argue from biology and physiology gave one no defence against the fact that the clitoris was the female organ of pleasure . |
| 43 | Tess realized that the farmer was the same Trantridge man who had recognized her in the market town , and had been knocked down by Angel . |
| 44 | This possibility ran counter to much nineteenth-century political theory , which stressed that the State was the only guarantor of personal safety . |
| 45 | It was coming to be generally accepted by 1880 that the state was the proper political expression of the nation . |
| 46 | It was one thing to accept the assumption that the state was the dominant actor , but quite another to agree to how best to explain that unit 's behaviour . |
| 47 | In summary , his view that the State was the instrument through which the dialectic operated was evidently right ; and Marx 's view that it operated through class warfare as evidently wrong . |
| 48 | Here and there the line dividing them from the parish clergy may have become blurred , for some chantry certificates claimed , in 1545 , that the cantarist was the only minister available , and generally give the impression that they regularly shared the parish duties . |
| 49 | It was apparent that the kitchen was the only room with water and a sink ; hand washing as well as washing up must be done here , if at all . |
| 50 | However , a government statement issued at the end of a meeting with the Unified Movements and Fronts of Azawad on May 20 declared that both parties were convinced that the attack was the work of " unscrupulous and lawless " people . |
| 51 | By their statement of claim the council claimed , inter alia , ( i ) that the council was the county council for Derbyshire and pursuant to statute was responsible for a wide range of governmental and administrative functions in Derbyshire , and in particular the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( ii ) that in those issues of ‘ The Sunday Times ’ the third and fourth defendants falsely and maliciously wrote and the first and second defendants falsely and maliciously printed and published , or caused to be written , printed or published of and concerning the council and of and concerning the council in the way of its discharge of its responsibility for the investment and control of the superannuation fund ; ( iii ) by reason of the words published in the articles the council had been injured in its credit and reputation and had been brought into public scandal , odium and contempt , and had suffered loss and damage . |
| 52 | However : What Mr Taylor [ for the council ] said … was … that the common assumption which lay behind the agreement was that the council was the owner of the … land and that Mr Tillson had no interest in either parcel of land beyond the tenancy which the council was to grant him by the transaction . |
| 53 | Vanuatu 's generous tax system meant that the country was the base for numerous offshore companies . |
| 54 | Because the movies were the first real mass entertainment the showmen realized that the sky was the limit and that there was no possible reason for timidity and restraint . |
| 55 | And the volatile Aqib took the argument a step further by saying : ‘ If people are still trying to say that the ball was the main reason for our success rather than the bowlers , let's put it to the test . |
| 56 | The implication of images such as these is that the double-axe was the symbol of a powerful female deity , probably Potnia . |
| 57 | The retired milkman , from whom I had borrowed the can , told me that the dent was the result of an accident with a bicycle . |
| 58 | The author declared that the Crown was the symbol of national unity . |
| 59 | Well he he was saying that , that the boss was the one that provided the money that the chap was . |
| 60 | Meanwhile , the Wales TUC , which is mounting a big campaign for jobs and recovery , claimed yesterday that the Principality was the poorest region of Great Britain . |