Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 2 | Almost difficult to believe , but Beighton station level crossing was the first on the GCR out of London . |
| 3 | The primary reason for the failure of the CAFFE trial was the enormous skilled effort needed to prepare the flow charts . |
| 4 | In the second case money was the prime factor , both its getting and spending ; it created an artificial environment . |
| 5 | Monetarists argued that excessive growth in the money stock was the root cause of the inflationary problem , and that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment was at best temporary . |
| 6 | The electronic billboard with its tacky Stardust effect was the ultimate nothing , an entity written entirely in light . |
| 7 | The specific focus of the Loughborough University research was the effect of the national curriculum on secondary school libraries . |
| 8 | Well the election agent was the man responsible for getting that data through to the , the candidate to say that you 're speaking at a meeting , such and such a night , and another meeting at such and such so keeping the , keeps that candidate on his toes , all the time , during an election campaign until election 's over and then of course er you know what transpires after that I su it 's either |
| 9 | Despite the predominance of the medical faculty in attracting research grants , the unit with the largest contract turnover was the archaeology department . |
| 10 | Better than expected , the February current-account deficit was £1.4 billion ; the trade deficit figure was the same — net invisibles vanished . |
| 11 | One of the foremost exponents of Hawaiian slack key guitar was the superb musician and singer Gabby Pahinui , and Gabby is the reason we 've been given this rare and welcome opportunity to speak to Ry Cooder . |
| 12 | In Britain , the key change was the removal of the ‘ corset ’ on banks in 1980 . |
| 13 | The key change was the announcement that the income tax charge on company dividends is from 6 April to be cut from 25 to 20 per cent and that the accompanying tax credit will also be cut to 20 per cent . |
| 14 | There was a time when the humble pedicab driver was the symbol of the hard-working migrant who left the village for the bright lights of Jakarta . |
| 15 | Right now the well-being of his car seat was the last thing on her mind . |
| 16 | Police suspected a man in a silver car was the murderer . |
| 17 | Lansdowne Road has seen some famous victories this year and the Dublin Sports & social Committee was not to be outdone as Lansdowne Football Club was the venue for its latest undertaking . |
| 18 | An essential part of BRAC 's oral therapy programme was the reinforcement and monitoring of the message conveyed by the Oral Replacement Workers about the lobon-gur solution . |
| 19 | The agency chiefly concerned with neighbourhood liaison was the City Planning Office , which employed a number of community planners responsible for consulting with their allocation of neighbourhood groups . |
| 20 | His paper in the 1945 Proceedings of the chemical engineering group of the Society of Chemical Industry was the definitive work on the subject . |
| 21 | Williams ' theory , in brief , was that whilst the West Indian plantation economy with its slave labour force was the prime factor in the development of mercantilist capital in Great Britain , the ascent in the early 19th century of the industrial bourgeoisie created new forces whose interests clashed with those of the more established capitalist group . |
| 22 | The ultimate in the clean break philosophy was the shipping of thousands of deprived children to Canada and Australia , ‘ not all of them orphans and not always with their parents ' knowledge or consent ’ . |
| 23 | Wyvis Hall was the most beautiful place the seven-year-old Lewis had ever seen and the countryside was glorious . |
| 24 | In 1921 , the Emergency Quota Act was the first to impose a numerical restriction on immigrants . |
| 25 | The unqualified use of the public meeting in the later stages of the emancipation campaign was the product both of an urgency amongst primarily a younger generation of abolitionists and a changed political context . |
| 26 | The opening of the stock exchange was the first step in the privatization programme announced by Prime Minister Jozsef Antall on May 22 ; shortly afterwards , on June 29 , the government detailed further plans to take effect in August , starting with bankruptcy proceedings against about 30 large state entities , the decentralization and splitting up of another 600 companies and the privatization of some 40,000 small service concerns , subsequently adding plans to create private farm holdings . |
| 27 | For three days the murder room was the haunt of SOCO and the Detective Chief Inspector as they quartered every inch in search of fingermarks , blood or saliva samples and other prey for their relentless , questioning minds . |
| 28 | Maybe the shepherd lad was the Good Shepherd himself . |
| 29 | The employers , with new-found spirit , informed the Minister that labour unrest was the result of political rather than economic conditions , and withdrew from the discussions . |
| 30 | In the twenties Halling football team was the pride of the village and when one of its players , " Nobby " Clark died suddenly after a game , the whole village mourned . |