Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the BBC 's funding was ‘ assured ’ , it could pursue quality in programming without concerning itself with the needs of the public for , say , popular entertainment . |
| 2 | According to Freedberg , the aim of Kosuth 's installation was to ‘ engender self-reflexiveness in each viewer 's judgment about the relations between art , morality and censorship ’ . |
| 3 | McNair 's response was uncompromising ; that he should apply for , and prove himself in , a newly established Readership in Law and Politics at Hong Kong University . |
| 4 | Again , McNair 's response was unequivocal . |
| 5 | The Northern Irishman , second in the Order of Merit to Olazabal , went round in 66 to Reid 's 67 in the morning and when the American , at the 22nd hole , had his eighth birdie , Rafferty 's response was an eagle three . |
| 6 | Bevin 's response was implicitly to accept the strategic vulnerability of the Middle East in wartime , but to argue that Britain 's presence in that area was crucial to its role as a great political power . |
| 7 | By 1983 , although the weaknesses of the programme were increasingly acknowledged within the party , the government 's response was to resort to more authoritarian methods of ‘ policing ’ the villages . |
| 8 | The company 's response was to issue notice to the original 40 that if they did n't return to work they 'd all be sacked . |
| 9 | Labour 's response was noticeably muted . |
| 10 | Greig 's response was to throw the bat , and Ward hung on while 46 were added ; but , with the score on 204 , he was caught behind off Holding and Willis was lbw first ball , leaving Greig unbeaten on 76 and West Indies winners by 55 runs . |
| 11 | According to Legge , Sibelius 's response was : ‘ Karajan is the only conductor who plays what I meant . ’ |
| 12 | Sam 's response was belligerence , not fear . |
| 13 | ‘ Peel 's response was to construct a service with a severe code of discipline and a structure of supervisory ranks designed to ensure strict control of policing and police officers . |
| 14 | Labour 's response was to blame Mr James Callaghan 's financial orthodoxy — it was his government that introduced cash limits on government spending — and to lurch still further to the Left . |
| 15 | BT 's response was to carry out an area trial , promising to keep me advised on progress . |
| 16 | The District 's response was not to appoint a successor to Mrs. Collingwood but to give the Essex Federation Executive the opportunity to take on the tutor-organiser 's work , leaving all teaching to part-time tutors : an arrangement which was still in force at the District 's seventy-fifth anniversary in 1988 . |
| 17 | In due course , the government 's response was to pass a law and appoint an Alkali Inspector named Angus Smith . |
| 18 | ( 1 August 1777 ) The Archbishop 's response was to release both Mozart and his father . |
| 19 | Leopold 's response was to urge Mozart not to dismiss the idea so lightly given that the appointment , though not the grandest in itself , might ultimately lead to one of the posts of Kapellmeister there . |
| 20 | The Government 's response was to call on its country support and put the matter before the Lords again . |
| 21 | Thesiger 's response was typical of the man who had endured the searing heat , tongue-swelling thirst and bitter , skin-cracking cold of the desert : ‘ God , you must be a couple of pansies ’ , he said . |
| 22 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 23 | Chapman 's response was to inquire after Grimsby marksman Ernie Coleman and Sheffield United 's record goal-scorer , Irish international Jimmy Dunne , both possible successors to Lambert . |
| 24 | The prince 's response was to spend £100,000 more than his augmented income . |
| 25 | By comparison , Kenneth Baker 's response was bathetic . |
| 26 | The public 's response was so overwhelming that the procession of cars , which each carried two team members , was halted several times as fans surged around the cars asking for autographs , shaking hands and giving the occasional kiss . |
| 27 | Although , on reflection , that was an exceedingly dumb question , my neighbour 's response was , none the less , informative . |
| 28 | When told that Amnesty International had made a radical new departure in the choice of his successor , a decision that it was hoped would be regarded as courageous , Ian 's response was to nod . |
| 29 | The boy 's response was immediate . |
| 30 | The United States continued to be irritated , while Britain 's response was that even if France sabotaged the EDC , it would not prevent West German rearmament . |