Example sentences of "[noun] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Religion was the base for the principles of society and they are all for the good and well being of society . |
| 3 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The final development to create a more highly dynamised remedy was the change of the dilution factor from 1:100 to 1:50,000 . |
| 8 | The proper remedy was the ballot box and not the court . |
| 9 | His first disappointment was the lack of a porter to carry his bags . |
| 10 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 11 | The only disappointment was the fuel charges . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . " |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " . |
| 16 | The second unexpected blow which befell the Association was the death , in 1967 , of Arthur Thomas Crellin , universally known as Tom . |
| 17 | The aim which obsessed military thinking was the winning of a decisive battle soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 18 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 19 | Certainly in his bachelor days Johnnie Spencer was the catch of the county . |
| 20 | So taken with this image was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she let it be known throughout the realm that Marks & Spencer was the place she bought her underwear . |
| 21 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | In Australia , Canada , and the Americas , killing native peoples was the method usually favoured by settlers . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | They were well placed to exert political pressure , for in 1753 Captain Robert Cunningham was the candidate for the parliamentary seat for this district , avowedly standing as a friend of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 26 | In the 1950s Montini was the man everyone wanted to meet . |
| 27 | This act , in which his wife and sons took part , developed into a substantial touring company performing throughout Britain and Europe ; Cody 's most famous melodrama was The Klondyke Nugget , first staged in 1898 . |
| 28 | But by mid-1989 , Kylie was THE figurehead of High Street fashion throughout Europe , which was very good news for Sydney 's pauvre couture set , who were beginning to find international recognition at last . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | In the end , the main contractor was the West German company Maschinenfabrik Augsburg Nurnberg , which completed the job in roughly two years . |