Example sentences of "was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One could say that he was the dissenter in an age of … romantic anarchy . |
| 2 | In the winter he had gone down with a slight burst of influenza and anyone would have thought it was the plague . |
| 3 | Sixteen sixty five was the plague |
| 4 | And then there was money for maimed soldiers , for what they called visited persons , which was the plague , fire and candles for the courts of guards , that was paying for fire and candles for all the little sentinel posts round Oxford . |
| 5 | Was the build-up to the first ‘ test ’ too gentle ? |
| 6 | The thing I most disliked was the disapproval of the dons because I admitted I would like to write ! ’ |
| 7 | Well I , I thought it was the peanut butter you see , and then I just thought what you said last night . |
| 8 | He er was n't the lender , he was the borrower , he went to the bank , says can I borrow this collection of treasury bonds , which he has to put pension fund assets to stock , so he 's immediately er going against his duty as a trustee cos it 's costing the pension fund money this er er excess of five to ten per cent . |
| 9 | The defendant , who was the freehold owner of a house , subject to a local authority mortgage , emigrated to the United States in 1976 , leaving the house in the occupation of his mother , his sister , C. and her husband , D. In April 1979 the defendant signed a power of attorney in favour of his mother in terms which enabled her to sell the property . |
| 10 | Gone was the vagueness , gone the composure . |
| 11 | ‘ They do n't detain them for nothing ! ’ was the refrain . |
| 12 | The trouble was that Louise , like a number of other members of the garrison , was suffering from scurvy ; there had been several cases of partial blindness and of swollen heads , but the most common symptom , and the one which was troubling Louise , was the loosening of teeth . |
| 13 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 14 | A ‘ Flower Pot and Angel ’ was the trade 's nickname for certain lid motifs ; an alternative design was the Urn and Angels . |
| 15 | The forthcoming trials of Weinberger and of retired Central Intelligence Agency official Duane R. Clarridge were not directly affected by the decision to end the inquiry , nor was the retrial of CIA official Clair E. George , whose first trial had ended in August with the jury unable to agree on a verdict [ see p. 39043 ] . |
| 16 | One consequence was the downgrading of ‘ political news ’ . |
| 17 | The extraordinary piece of good fortune that I had been given was the opportunity to fight it my way . |
| 18 | Most significant for a county player was the opportunity to have a benefit match . |
| 19 | It is clear that a main attraction of the project for its participants was the opportunity offered to obtain a large amount of space in a Central London location for a modest outlay . |
| 20 | Photographers were tending to adopt that method on every job , even if there was the opportunity for a natural approach . |
| 21 | All he lacked was the opportunity . |
| 22 | The launch conference was successful in many ways , one of which was the opportunity it gave for students and staff to display the already high quality of work across many areas of the curriculum . |
| 23 | Then there was the opportunity . |
| 24 | Here at last was the opportunity for almost unlimited eastward expansion . |
| 25 | Hunt knew he had the faster car ; what he needed was the opportunity . |
| 26 | Music still plays a large part in his life and one of the great thrills of filming Consenting Adults was the opportunity to jam with Atlanta blues musicians . |
| 27 | Where the Colonel Generals , where the Colonels , where the Majors of Headquarters had failed , idiot buggers , there was the opportunity for an ambitious Captain to succeed . |
| 28 | One was that it was horrible and she would always regret it if she made love to Tom only because she was drunk , the other that here was the opportunity to get it over , make a start , break the ice . |
| 29 | In Minton 's case the attraction was the opportunity to do one day less a week than he had done at Camberwell or Central . |
| 30 | For another , it was the opportunity to take proper revenge for the discomfort that Private Eye had caused him over the years , a revenge more satisfying than that afforded him by the Music Box April Fool 's joke . |