Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dinner seemed to be hardly Italian at all , except that there was spaghetti , so English and German was the company . |
| 2 | Bench chairwoman Ann Middleton told Frak the offence was so serious that prison was the only way of dealing with it , because the public needed protecting from her . |
| 3 | Convinced that education was the prime path to political formation , he became a schoolmaster and , although his socialism made it hard to find a place , he was appointed to one by the Govan school board . |
| 4 | So this is a major complication and I think this shows why Freud had to introduce this second model of the mind , because in his first model of the mind it was very simple and repression was the force that distinguished conscious from unconscious . |
| 5 | On all the evidence it is highly improbable that overvaluation was the dominant constraint ; particularly since import penetration occurred in a ratchet-like fashion . |
| 6 | The timber bracing was built into stone and rubble walls as well , as can be seen at many points round the Knossos Labyrinth , so it seems likely that earthquake-resistance was the likely purpose . |
| 7 | More nodding and croaking was the answer . |
| 8 | Ever since we 'd moved to Cornwall I 'd been reading more and more about birds of prey , and by this time I was pretty sure that falconry was the ideal career for me . |
| 9 | He was given an appointment but then rang back and said he was n't sure that counselling was the right thing after all . |
| 10 | Jason was quite firm that marriage was the last thing he wanted . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | His ambition was to create art even though he was blind and sculpture was the answer . |
| 13 | For Leese , the Nordic or Aryan was the sole creator of culture and civilization . |
| 14 | A positive diagnosis was significantly more common if dysphagia was the reason for referral ( 65.9% v 35.3% , p<0.01 ) . |
| 15 | So slow and patient was the seduction that she almost wished she was bisexual . |
| 16 | This was significantly more common when dysphagia was the reason for referral ( 65.9% v 35.3% , p<0.01 ) . |
| 17 | In keeping with other studies of this nature , a manometric abnormality was significantly more common when dysphagia was the reason for referral . |
| 18 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |