Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For centuries agriculture was the main industry together with self-employed small businesses giving support , blacksmiths , cobblers , tailors , and village stores . |
| 2 | For centuries agriculture was the main economy of the Glarus . |
| 3 | THE one thing guaranteed to dampen your enthusiasm for home brewing was the uncertainty of it all . |
| 4 | The core of elite theory was the contention that democracy , in the strict traditional sense of rule by the people , is impossible : all government is government by an elite , or at best one among a number of competing elites . |
| 5 | The intangible benefits of improved service to line management in quantity and quality of personnel information was the major influence on the management . |
| 6 | This was one of the reasons why they were more prepared than many sedentary peasants to escape over huge distances in the Famine , though of course hunger was the main spur . |
| 7 | For all the children , the best indicator of response time was the size of the smaller number involved in the sum . |
| 8 | Worse still , the epicentre of labour militancy was the capital itself . |
| 9 | His paper in the 1945 Proceedings of the chemical engineering group of the Society of Chemical Industry was the definitive work on the subject . |
| 10 | The train shed of Paddington Station was the terminus of the Great Western Railway , and was built by Brunel ( q.v. ) and Matthew Digby-Wyatt in 1854 . |
| 11 | Central to Peter Slade 's theory of child drama was the distinction he made between personal and projected play ( or drama ) . |
| 12 | The second phase of Desert Storm was the long-awaited ground offensive . |
| 13 | In 1945 he made his famous recording ‘ Up in Dodo 's Room ’ with McGhee 's group which , in the judgement of Fats Navarro was the first recorded tenor solo in the bebop idiom . |
| 14 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 15 | So Morrissey 's infantile gainsaying of pop reality was the chrysalis for indiepop 's current wistful , wishful fantasy of a ‘ perfect pop ’ returning to oust the impostors in the hit parade . |
| 16 | A familiar character in the annals of wartime prejudice was the busybody who made a vocation out of telling others how to behave . |
| 17 | Also getting a lot of media attention was the National Study of Childhood Cancer , which is going to look at a number of background environmental factors in all children 's cancers during the next five years . |
| 18 | For the world of liberalism insecurity was the price paid for both progress and freedom , not to mention wealth , and was made tolerable by continuous economic expansion . |
| 19 | In the early years of British rule the avowed principle of government policy was the continuation of policies of the previous regimes , the Dutch in the coastal areas or Low Country , and the Kandyans in the interior . |
| 20 | Far removed from the practicalities of army life was the entry from the Traverse Theatre in Edinburgh . |
| 21 | But the Conqueror 's scheme of knight service was the nearest to a comprehensive feudal hierarchy that any European king or prince attempted . |
| 22 | The welfare of those they ruled and still more the greatness of the State ( now clearly separated from the ruler and the ruling dynasty ) dominated their calculations as never before ; indeed an ideal of State service was the one thing which they had in common . |
| 23 | Another initially important barrier to the spread of appliance use was the limited capacity on the consumers ' side of the terminals . |
| 24 | On the intellectual front , this unification went on at the same time that in the social history of science specialization was the order of the day . |
| 25 | Furthermore , United States Secretary of State James Baker 's first proposal for the postwar organisation of Gulf security was the ‘ Gulfo ’ concept . |
| 26 | A lot of times it 's economics that determines what people do in all their endeavours , and in the case of Hawaii tourism was the thing and so of course they had to play music for tourists . |
| 27 | The primary aim of land law was the preservation of families as viable economic units . |
| 28 | Of these three policies adopted by colonial governments to deal with the acute pressure on land , the Kenyan example of land reform was the most successful , and the one whose benefits lasted well beyond independence . |
| 29 | The Party now realized that a more moderate policy of land reform was the most appropriate one for China thus there was a temporary change in emphasis away from land reform to a desire to increase production . |
| 30 | During the 1930s the most commonly used piece of laboratory apparatus was the maze , often modelled on the one at Hampton Court . |