Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cowen & Co was the lead underwriter . |
| 2 | In a post-war climate where nationalisation was the key component in the economic sphere , and reorganisation and rationalisation of what already existed the most characteristic feature of social policy , ‘ planning ’ failed to dislodge the established administrative systems or to overcome the temptation to make do with ad hoc measures . |
| 3 | Cathy Wallis , a computer programmer , believes the policy has improved the quality of her working life and would definitely think twice about accepting a job where smoking was the norm . |
| 4 | For Leese , the Nordic or Aryan was the sole creator of culture and civilization . |
| 5 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 6 | These findings agree with a previous study of diabetic neuropathy where constipation was the most common gastrointestinal symptom . |
| 7 | However , the Leeds system has been criticised on various grounds , the major complaint being that repeated adjournment of individual cases , and randomised outcomes to test whether adjournment or supervision was the more effective , was illegal . |
| 8 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 9 | As its critics feared , the legislation quickly established an area of production where cheapness was the only important criterion , with film being treated as so many yards of celluloid filled with moving figures . |
| 10 | What might be called ‘ external ’ interpretation or construction was the subject of Section 2 : jurists resort to construction , when there is evidently an intention on the part of a testator to achieve some object by means of some legal institution , in order to embody that intention in a legal framework . |
| 11 | These bounds often show that a particular parish , township , or tithing was the same in the tenth century as in the nineteenth , and we become aware of the remarkable persistence of boundaries . |
| 12 | The wedding was held in 1920 at Mouthlock Methodist Chapel , at South Stainmore , where Mother was the organist and , much to her surprise and delight , the members of the chapel presented them with an inscribed silver teapot . |
| 13 | During the past 60 years , I have lived on islands in the Hebrides where Gaelic was the normal means of communication in church services and in daily life . |
| 14 | It may not be going too far to suggest that Laski was the primary conduit through which early twentieth-century developments in American legal thought were filtered into British public law thought . |
| 15 | In practice , by 1975 , the resistance to this approach proved so great that settlement was the real objective , with the justification that farming families could be supported in every way — agriculturally , medically and educationally — much more effectively on a group basis . |
| 16 | Demoralisation rather than democratisation was the immediate result . |
| 17 | The survey found that burglary was the most common crime , affecting 45pc , followed by vandalism ( 31pc ) . |
| 18 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 19 | There was indeed something bizarre about the idea that protection was the way to unite the Conservative Party . |
| 20 | At an early age , Ybreska had seen through the myth and realized that money was the sole power which kept the Earth turning . |
| 21 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 22 | This was despite the fact that physics was the most boring subject at school because it was so easy and obvious . |
| 23 | In his chairman 's report for the 1947 season , Rawlins Hawtin recorded the comment made to him , during the match with Surrey at Peterborough , by Herbert Strudwick , who ‘ volunteered his opinion that Fiddling was the best wicketkeeper in England ’ . |
| 24 | Was that conclusive evidence that insanity was the salary of meddling with necromancy ? |
| 25 | I was the first to state that reunification was the best option ( and I quote from an Institute minute ) ‘ provided the RIBA can show that Portland Place can be adapted for the successful functioning of all departments . ’ |
| 26 | Aristotle claimed that tragedy was the imitation of an action and that character was an important but supplementary consideration . |
| 27 | In this he was probably hoping to answer those who had claimed that fear was the cause of his failure to appear during the campaign at Valencia . |
| 28 | This can be justified by the fact that Keynesianism was the accepted dominant macro-intellectual tradition and that in this tradition a key role , if not the key role , is the manipulation of fiscal policy weapons to achieve economy-wide targets . |
| 29 | But I did know that Gyggle was the shrink for me the minute I saw him . |
| 30 | Years later Simenon put La Caque into a Maigret novel , characterising its members as so jaded by drink , sex and drugs that murder was the obvious next step . |