Example sentences of "[prep] their [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price the French exacted for their support was the deployment of the Castilian fleet against England . |
| 2 | They were able to show that at least one of the reasons for their failure was the immigration of insects from surrounding , untreated areas . |
| 3 | Brakeloads and omnibuses were arriving on Victoria Parade full of fresh supplies , and swarming down the High Street towards their mecca was the first cheap , fast trainload of ‘ Arrys and ‘ Arriets in search of entertainment . |
| 4 | The centre of their life was the abbey church , which still survives almost intact , the view through the east window of the wooded slopes being particularly memorable . |
| 5 | The soldiers who ran Greece until 1974 were similarly discredited , because one result of their folly was the occupation by Turkey of northern Cyprus . |
| 6 | But the injustice of their attitude was the undoing of their arguments . |
| 7 | An important part of their creed was the existence of classical measuring instruments . |
| 8 | Despite the much higher ammonia production in the H pylori positive uraemic patients , the nature and severity of their gastritis was the same as that in the H pylori positive non-uraemic patients . |
| 9 | The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm . |
| 10 | But a crucial ingredient in their success was the fielding of the team ( with Bland at the forefront ) and if Jonty Rhodes can inspire his team to come even close to such heights then the South African team of the 1990s may well go one step further than their illustrious predecessors . |
| 11 | Men abusing positions of trust by sexually assaulting teenage boys in their charge was the main focus of the reports on male sexual assault of males . |
| 12 | Their pleas for greater security had gone unheard , and this murder in their view was the ‘ inevitable ’ outcome , raising the whole question of the social position of intellectuals in contemporary China . |
| 13 | Although the decent instinct of many was to support the weaker side in a wholly legitimate quest for independence , their public utterances , alas , were to support the side which in their view was the more important to British interests . |
| 14 | In their midst was the red bitch , standing rump-to-rump with the ā gri 's black-and-tan mastiff mongrel . |
| 15 | This is why low fat diets work so efficiently and why so many followers of my diet said that the most important contributory factor to their success was the large amount of food they were allowed to eat . |
| 16 | To their right was the massive Arsenal . |
| 17 | To their right was the nave altar and behind that was the organ loft separating off the choir , presbytery and apse chapel . |
| 18 | Central to their challenge was the doctrine of justification by faith alone , or solafidianism ( from the Latin sola fide — ‘ by faith alone ’ ) . |
| 19 | To their left was the long forbidding wood with its tangle of trees and stubborn defenders . |
| 20 | One intellectual reason why Western Marxist writers accepted ‘ party discipline ’ and a rigid orthodoxy on their work was the conviction that the Bolshevik revolution ( and the spread of Marxist regimes to Eastern Europe , China , and Cuba ) had ‘ validated ’ the ‘ scientific ’ character of Marx and Engels ' work — credit which Communist thinkers also extended to Lenin 's reworking and extension of classical |
| 21 | On their left was the old gate house guarding the main entrance to the Park from the road Many was the carriage and pair that had galloped through that archway . |
| 22 | Among their group was the ‘ young ’ Frank Gilbride , now the Professional at Exeter Golf Club . |