Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catalyst for change was the so-called ‘ Agreement ’ signed between the Government and the Stock Exchange in 1983 . |
| 2 | The price they paid for admission was the sacrifice of industrial democracy : Co-operation by largely foregoing the promotion of Industrial Co-operation , trade unionism by making the maintenance or improvement of their members ' working conditions the prime object . |
| 3 | It decided that the criterion for liability for damage was the reasonable foreseeability of the injury . |
| 4 | The solution of the Cadiz liberals for the colonial desire for self-government was the concession of full political rights to American citizens within a unified empire ; the colonies were an integral part of metropolitan Spain and would be ‘ freed ’ , with the same constitution that gave Spain herself freedom . |
| 5 | The unit I had for review was the wrist mounted version which had a rubber strap with a built in expander . |
| 6 | One critical aspect of the overall decline in the demand for labour was the discrimination that older workers believed employers exercised against them and in favour of younger ones . |
| 7 | In the short term though what was crucial for labour was the offer of more secure living standards . |
| 8 | The force working most clearly for uniformity was the growth in the child population , and since that was itself not uniform it was uneven in its effects . |
| 9 | His final act as President was the appointment of a transitional military government , headed by the Maronite Christian Army Commander Gen. Michel Aoun to replace the government of Selim al Hoss . |
| 10 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 11 | The first person the majority of the sample ( 90 per cent ) turned to for help was the family practitioner . |
| 12 | The only monitor for management was the market . |
| 13 | Seventy five percent of solving the problem because the big problem for capacity was the in-bound on a Saturday morning which , of course , will be solved now |
| 14 | Thus the portion of the site that was chosen for clearance was the upper half of the southerly track together with the base area of the former engine house . |
| 15 | The desire for peace was the increasingly dominant and constant theme of popular opinion . |
| 16 | The first party to campaign for independence was the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons ( NCNC ) founded by Dr Namdi Azikiwe in 1945 . |
| 17 | Observers of inner-city youth noted that along with smoking and clothes , talking about sport was the main amusement of lads on the street-corner . |
| 18 | The final stage of assessment was the negotiation of a treatment contract , including which of the patient 's problems were going to be tackled and the practical arrangements for treatment sessions . |
| 19 | Lankester suggested that the driving force of progress was the struggle of organisms to cope with environmental challenge , and warned that degeneration threatened any species that took up a less stimulating environment . |
| 20 | One of the features of change was the emergence of a unique landscape along the coast , on the riverside and in the countryside : ‘ a makeshift world of shacks and shanties , scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape , with unmade roads and little in the way of services ’ ( Hardy and Ward . |
| 21 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 22 | The age of hair was the first ⅗ of the 70s . |
| 23 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 24 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 25 | Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work . |
| 26 | The Commissariat of Agriculture was the key element within Pomgol . |
| 27 | The centre of agriculture was the villa , and many of these were built in Suffolk . |
| 28 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 29 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 30 | I suggested earlier that one element in the construction of physics was the useful/useless duality . |