Example sentences of "[noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 2 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 5 | Religion was the first vehicle for general thoughts about existence . |
| 6 | Until the eighteenth century , religion was the only force to speak to the central concerns of human beings , the only explanation for human suffering which was available . |
| 7 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 8 | Religion was the greatest difficulty : the thin crust of philosophic theism was hardly capable of containing the wilder emotions of prophecy , ecstasy , mystery and ritual cruelty . |
| 9 | see and he started up that way and , and the religion was the most popular thing in the country , but all the people were outlaws . |
| 10 | Religion was the political issue which aroused the most passionate emotions amongst the population at large . |
| 11 | This was why religion was the one subject required by British law to be taught in schools . |
| 12 | Religion was the base for the principles of society and they are all for the good and well being of society . |
| 13 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 14 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 15 | The undoubted highlights in the Arts was the poetry reading by Sorley Maclean , Norman McCaig and Edwin Morgan , which was held in a packed Pathfoot Lecture Theatre and on which occasion the University was particularly pleased to welcome senior pupils from local schools . |
| 16 | The most controversial of all the legacies the eighteenth-century reformers bequeathed to their successors was the subordination of the Church as a political , economic , educational , and charitable institution to the supremacy of the State . |
| 17 | His sense of isolation was the chief suffering of his life in Cambridge . |
| 18 | Mr Richard Dunn , managing director of Thames Television and chairman of the ITV Association , said the auction was the ‘ fatal flaw ’ in the bill . |
| 19 | The final development to create a more highly dynamised remedy was the change of the dilution factor from 1:100 to 1:50,000 . |
| 20 | The proper remedy was the ballot box and not the court . |
| 21 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 22 | The only disappointment was the fuel charges . ’ |
| 23 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 24 | His first disappointment was the lack of a porter to carry his bags . |
| 25 | I ought perhaps to add that Edward Spelman was the man who said : " Good God , doth any fellow of a College know anything of Greek . " |
| 26 | As impressive as the emotional force of the songs was the way their author had learned to marry complex lyrics to tunes which never sounded forced or over-extended . |
| 27 | Fermented glucose was the most potent stimulant . |
| 28 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 29 | Dan Atkinson , deputy city and economics editor of the Press Association was the winner , and Anthony Hilton , the financial editor of the Evening Standard came third . |
| 30 | For the past two years , I have been questioning whether the Lawn Tennis Association was the right organisation to continue to be responsible for the development of a new generation of men and women tennis players who would be able to take on and compete on level terms with the rest of the world . |