Example sentences of "[noun pl] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This link between marriage and kinship , the two abiding pillars of much anthropological theory , was further emphasized in Tylor 's pithy comment that , in the history of human development , the choice facing many tribal peoples was the stark one of marrying out or dying out . |
| 5 | Thus most forest and tundra peoples sacrificed reindeer , but it was a dog which was killed ( and eaten ) by those peoples ( Nanai , Ulcha , Nivkh and Koryak ) who used dog-teams for transport , while the sacrificial animal of the Buryats , Yakuts and other Turkic peoples was the horse . |
| 6 | An involuntary , but major , effect of Russian intrusion among the Siberian peoples was the introduction of diseases which were endemic in European Russia but , apparently , were unknown in northern Asia . |
| 7 | In Australia , Canada , and the Americas , killing native peoples was the method usually favoured by settlers . |
| 8 | Flaming Ears was the fourth and I joined three of my colleagues in a mini-mass walkout of this totally unstructured , ineptly shot , meaningless mish-mash of an Austrian vampire lesbian flick set in the year 2700 . |
| 9 | I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing . |
| 10 | What should have been equally obvious to the assemblymen was the fury they were thus provoking , including megaphonic demonstrations by the opposition Democratic Progressive party to coincide with the students ' protests . |
| 11 | … Negotiations implied weakness : the use of force which the Dutch had employed for three centuries was the most suitable course to pursue . ’ |
| 12 | And there seems little reason to doubt the conclusions of a number of pre-revolutionary and Soviet historians that the enhanced rate of peasant flight to Siberia in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was the direct result of the increasing burdens of the serf-owning economy and of Peter 's oppressive fiscal policies , military recruitment , foreign wars and religious persecution . |
| 13 | What brought tears of laughter to many eyes was the Irishman 's misinterpretation of Dad 's words . |
| 14 | One of his eyes was the sun and the other the moon . |
| 15 | A slight tightening about DeVore 's eyes was the only sign that he was interested , but none of the others in the room noticed it , nor the way he rubbed at his wrist , as if relieving an itch there ; they were watching Mach , horrified by this new development . |
| 16 | An important feature of the scheme in its creator 's eyes was the relative index . |
| 17 | Before his eyes was the ‘ Vehicle Condition Monitor ’ , a dot-matrix display that gave warning of any problem from handbrake on to brake failure . |
| 18 | Guaranteeing the security of the acute units was the major preoccupation of managers , who were realistic about the competition they faced in maintaining " market share " once resident- based funding was introduced . |
| 19 | Among the signals was the dramatic distress call ‘ Sinking wants immediate assistance ’ ( sic ) sent by the Titanic to the Baltic , which had earlier warned of icebergs in the area . |
| 20 | The new idea introduced by local Courts of Referees was the free local non-legal forum for the settlement of particular disputes . |
| 21 | One of the most influential mid-century organizations was the Young Men 's Christian Association ( YMCA ) , 1844 , whose members tended to be respectable workers in their late teens and twenties , employed in the retail and clerical professions . |
| 22 | He did not win : the executive in charge of setting up the European offices was the dynamic ex-sheriff of Caribou , Idaho , named William Swift Daliba , who could toss a silver dollar in the air and plug it with his six-gun . |
| 23 | The three remaining seats were won by members of the opposition alliance of the Mauritius Labour Party ( MLP ) and the Parti Mauricien Social-Démocrate ( PMSD ) who had held 13 seats at sissolution ; one of the successful opposition candidates was the alliance and MLP leader , Navin Ramgoolam . |
| 24 | It is probable that winning that nomination against three candidates was the hardest election of her life , until perhaps losing her seat two decades later . |
| 25 | One of the first examples to be discovered in animals was the opening of milk bottles in Britain by great tits , blue tits and coal tits . |
| 26 | The exploitation of fur-bearing animals was the incentive for much of the early exploration of North America . |
| 27 | The last time there was an inquiry into activities which may involve cruelty to wild animals was the Scott Henderson Inquiry set up by the Labour Government in 1949 . |
| 28 | But effective pursuit of some of the revolutionary goals was the province of older men — of respected ‘ average Libyans ’ , who used their position and influence , their kinship connections and the respect they had earned , to persuade others to do things they thought desirable . |
| 29 | Also among the winners was the country 's King Juan Carlos . |
| 30 | Riding winners was the only way he knew how to re-establish his self-worth , let alone his public esteem . |