Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was a " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was an apparent consensus , however , that budget deficit reduction was a central plank of the necessary stable policy framework , and that governments lacked scope for undertaking more expansive public expenditure or consumer credit policies to stimulate economic growth at a rate faster than the predicted very gradual recovery to end-1993 . |
| 2 | The budget deficit was a moderate 4.3 per cent , helping to make Belarus 's economic performance one of the best in the former Soviet Union . |
| 3 | One paradoxical consequence of central government limits to rate support grant was a real-money leap in business rates in some areas , and a sizeable increase in the proportion of local budgets paid through rates by the business community . |
| 4 | But the NETRHA story was a different one entirely . |
| 5 | The cost of the rail link was a paltry £12million and all but three million pounds had been found elsewhere . |
| 6 | To have won the best single play award was a major coup , due not just to the craft of the makers but at least partly to the strength of the story of the Trawsfynydd shepherd bard who became a reluctant soldier and died in battle before knowing he had achieved his life 's ambition of winning the National Eisteddfod chair at the Birkenhead festival in 1917 . |
| 7 | But communism communism was a form of Antichrist . |
| 8 | A more recent study in the allergy field was a double-blind placebo-controlled pilot trial of the efficacy of mixed pollen 30C in hay fever . |
| 9 | Until the rise of factory industry , framework knitting was a cottage industry , and in Calverton ( in Windles Square and elsewhere ) , Ruddington ( q.v. ) and many other Midland towns and villages , knitters ' cottages can still be seen . |
| 10 | Wenlock Manor was a small Georgian country house , which had been sold as a hotel twenty years ago . |
| 11 | A skilful dealer may get considerably more money than that out of the punter by implying , sometimes even saying directly , that this OTC stock was a better buy even than Rolls Royce . |
| 12 | THE general election result was a defeat for the BBC , the higher thinkers , the opinion polls — and the Liberal Democrats who once again have been exposed as a hollow shell . |
| 13 | ‘ Dylan as an actor and as an explosive performing force was a dangerous rival for other actors , as I know , for I worked with him a few times or several , and once for instance a director [ Douglas Cleverdon ] said to him — we were rehearsing a radio play at the time — Dylan , will you take the words ‘ Mam ! |
| 14 | Following the completion of the Gymnasium , the next major step in the building programme was a Hall , with Harrison as architect again . |
| 15 | A DOPEY thief thought the hologram of William Shakespeare on a stolen cheque card was a mugshot of the OWNER . |
| 16 | The development of Gedge and Solowka to The Wedding Present was a much more intricate and lengthy affair . |
| 17 | The Mersey Docks and Harbour Board was a public-trust authority which was becoming rapidly insolvent , yet there was no way in law in which it could go into liquidation . |
| 18 | But even if the Handscomb decision were fully accepted , I consider that he was entitled to make a distinction ; the difficulty of assessing the requirements of retribution and deterrence from the judges ' tariff in a murder case was a sufficient ground for his reserving the decision in mandatory life sentence cases to himself . |
| 19 | Underlying the suffrage struggle was a set of attitudes which dictated that women 's natural sphere was the home , that their full development came only with motherhood and that a ‘ womanly woman ’ would not be interested in or want the vote . |
| 20 | The situation in the Gouriet case was a politically sensitive one and this may well have justified the court 's refusal in that case to review the Attorney-General 's decision , but it is not clear that such refusal would be justified in every case . |
| 21 | ‘ The commandant of Jasenovac concentration camp was a Franciscan monk . ’ |
| 22 | Still more alarmist about the flow of skills and knowledge into the IT industry from the country 's research base was a committee that reported to the Department of Industry a couple of months ago . |
| 23 | The urgency which at this stage was given to the need for a new War Department building was a direct aftermath of the Crimean War . |
| 24 | A wool skirt was a strange thing to one whose life had been spent battling the sun . |
| 25 | The basic study instrument was a self administered questionnaire which was completed on three occasions by all pupils . |
| 26 | The lack of enemy opposition was a far cry from the next two missions on May 7 and 8 . |
| 27 | This cycling boom was a youth-based phenomenon too , spawning its own networks of cafes and modest bed and breakfast ‘ digs ’ . |
| 28 | IN the days when the British car industry was a joke , one firm more than any was considered to be a laughing stock . |
| 29 | Burr 's method of dictionary search was a complicated one . |
| 30 | Slotted in among the books on the review desk was a copy of the Canadian Vintage Aircraft 1992 Calendar . |