Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] was the " in BNC.

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1 Upgrading the existing cable by means of a new 400,000-volt cable was the only way to ensure sufficient carrying capacity for supplies from the new Teesside Power station under construction at Wilton , those at Hartlepool and Blythe and exports from Scotland .
2 The probe for NP1450L RNA was the synthetic oligonucleotide 5'-GGTGGTTCCCATTCGCGCATCATAGATACC-3' , complementary to nucleotides 130 to 159 of ORF NP1450L .
3 Er expertise was the first and foremost requirement .
4 and from there er Mr was the er housing manager then from Epping , we came under Epping did n't we ?
5 Yeah , it was a lovely house yeah but we wanted to come back to Harlow you see , so we did like , well we always liked Harlow , really the only reason we went to erm er Hatfield was the fact that Harlow Council no way would move us out of that maisonette , we had two boys and we lived upstairs and Gary had all sorts of accidents on those stairs , in fact we all had because they were outside , erm so in the winter they iced up
6 If The Stones ' camp appropriation of black R&B sexuality was the supremely relevant response to straitlaced , petit bourgeois English suburbia , then The Smiths ' refusal of the travesty of healthy sexuality that black pop degenerated into , was the appropriate response to eighties ‘ liberated ’ suburbia .
7 used to publish what areas were going to have power cuts , d' ya remember ? , you were in Bristol at the time , er Stuart was the same , they used to publish what area would be cut off and for what time and for how long and you knew you would get cut off , sort of ten o'clock in the morning till three in the afternoon , usu , four or five hours at a time was n't it ?
8 Although SVR4 MP was the first technical success for the UI technology committees , Price says SVR4.1 ES should be regarded as UI 's technological linchpin for the future .
9 Yeah er cover was the one that , after we 'd been through the document , I did find of be of particular interest
10 Item five erm I 'm also pleased to say that er Chris was the only person nominated to be Honorary Treasurer and it would give me great pleasure er to propose that he be elected Honorary Treasurer and may I have a seconder for that proposal please .
11 And er of course another a another er expression was the wee boch 'll come helshing down the street .
12 Du Cane was the first in a line of redoubtable and prominent penal administrators of the stature of Sir Evelyn Ruggles-Brise , Sir Alexander Paterson , and Sir Lionel Fox .
13 Er Diamonds was the name of the farm or the place and then it came along to the lighthouse corner .
14 What my , my honourable friend raises a very interesting point because er when I we studied er the law relating to partnerships one of the basic er er principals was the personal relationship between partners and I 'm bound to say that when one looks at the headed notepaper of these big multi national accountancy firms sometimes the names of which cover most of the letter and there 's very little room in fact left er for the message .
15 Er John was the youngest .
16 But Valerie Cass 's response was the most interesting .
17 Another of Mr. Talbot 's activities was the loaning of money at a fair old rate of interest but he did not believe in spending a penny to smarten his premises from which the paint was peeling so badly that bare wood was revealed .
18 Part of the weekend 's activities was the final knitting competition held in conjunction with the three local Comprehensive schools in Cwmbran , Gwent .
19 ONE of the great omissions at this year 's Oscars was the lack of a nomination for Kevin Kline 's dazzling performance as Douglas Fairbanks in Richard Attenborough 's Chaplin .
20 Monday 's award was the second of its kind for Miss Paterson .
21 The practical key to Arsenal 's rise was the balance effected between defence and attack , to meet the new conditions of the changed offside law .
22 The second factor in Cologne 's rise was the contribution by the Aachen chocolate magnate , Peter Ludwig , of his extensive collection of Pop Art and Russian Constructivist works .
23 The Gloucester 's stand was the turning point of the Korean war .
24 Depending on favours for a substantial part of one 's livelihood was the vulnerability which Mary Leapor was reluctant to assume .
25 Er yes there the three things I got out of erm yesterday 's course was the thought patterns the Aldershot method and the delivery .
26 The answer in Geoffrey Cowdrill 's case was the same one that occurs to numerous middle-aged executives who find themselves with a bit of capital and a lack of inspiration : he invested in a franchise .
27 The boy 's existence was the horror he spoke of .
28 The man 's skin was the matchless white of a person who preferred study to sport and shadow to sunlight .
29 Liberals saw this as evidence that the dominions were more interested in going their own way , but Unionists retorted that Canada like Britain had been led astray by a radical government and that Canada 's decision was the result of Britain 's failure to offer preference .
30 The core of the meeting 's decision was the adoption by 18 votes to six of a resolution which would allow commercial hunting to be resumed when stocks had reached 54 per cent of their estimated population prior to large-scale exploitation .
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