Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most striking instance was the 1976 Soweto uprising which was sparked off by secondary school pupils ' opposition to the authorities ' insistence that they learn certain subjects in Afrikaans , viewed by most black people as the language of the oppressor . |
| 2 | Another Israeli concession was the presence at the negotiating table of Feisal Husseini , the unofficial lieutenant of the PLO leader , Yasser Arafat , in the occupied territories and a resident of Jerusalem . |
| 3 | The historic award was the first fatal accident claim to be started after the MoD lost its immunity from law suits in 1987 . |
| 4 | The most striking change was the presence of a manual which describes policies and practices of the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress , offers advice on classing difficult areas and explains how to choose between related numbers . |
| 5 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 6 | Another possible measure was the average number of citations within the citation period . |
| 7 | For the twentieth-century facts were that they were a small , oppressed , poor and exploited people , in thrall to the then all-mighty English , and their sole singularity was the Welsh language and only a quarter of them spoke that . |
| 8 | One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned . |
| 9 | The triple shell was the traditional coffin for the burial vault and brick-lined grave . |
| 10 | His profound psychological insight owed a great deal to a neurotic streak , and it was no accident that one of his contributions to subsequent technical terminology was the term Angst ( ‘ dread ’ ) , and that he published books with such titles as The Concept of Dread , Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death . |
| 11 | A NEUTRAL Budget for the agricultural industry was the verdict of Suffolk farmers ' leader Roy Goodwin . |
| 12 | But that debate should not obscure the fact that private investment was the key that unlocked the Channel Tunnel door . |
| 13 | The major radical political force was the Partai Kommunis Indonesia ( PKI ) . |
| 14 | The main political force was the NSF , which took power during the revolution and was credited with ordering the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and bringing the fighting to an end . |
| 15 | The economic situation and the persistence of unemployment did help but the most obvious factor pushing Labour forward was the General Strike , which occurred between 3–12 May 1926 . |
| 16 | The event which followed this restriction on instinctual action was the brothers banding together to kill their father , and the consequent guilt they experienced . |
| 17 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 18 | While it was stretched over the whole length of imperial communications , its most dangerous possible rival was the more easily concentrated French fleet ; the prospect of a descent on the Channel ports still preoccupied the Admiralty . |
| 19 | Who on the allied side was the equal of any one of them ? |
| 20 | WHAT a mixed-up lover was the tawny owl which broke into a nature park night after night to pay court to a wooden model of a female owl . |
| 21 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | The result of this injection of European blood was the original full-tabby cat . |
| 23 | The clash came as Mr Kinnock exploited the apparent contradiction between Mrs Thatcher 's claim that she did not know why Mr Lawson resigned and the former Chancellor 's assertion in last Sunday 's Walden interview that he had made it quite clear to the Prime Minister that Sir Alan Walter 's continued presence as her economic adviser was the only issue . |
| 24 | Matching the model club conditions in its advanced thinking was the first-class training headed by Chapman 's right-hand man Tom Whittaker . |
| 25 | The winner of the Charles Douglas-Home Award for the most outstanding entry was the Cornerstone Garthdee Project in Aberdeen . |
| 26 | The best small car was the five-door Vauxhall Nova 1.3L , while the best medium-sized car was the Volvo 360GLE . |
| 27 | No less important to Reagan 's political future was the other part of his contract with General Electric which required him to spend 16 weeks a year touring GE plants around the country . |
| 28 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 29 | In the secondary sector , time-tabling health education in an already overcrowded curriculum was the most common constraint . |
| 30 | The gurgling noise was the rattling of Thomas trying to breathe through a restricted windpipe . |