Example sentences of "[conj] [pos pn] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their father 's name was Theunis Krankoor , and it is probable that either he or his father was the first person to take that name too . |
| 2 | I thought that my five-timer was the last time I would be up here . ’ |
| 3 | Although during the years I worked there I had the opportunity to meet many people , mainly the farmers who were our principal customers , I can honestly say that my job was the most boring and monotonous I could possibly have had . |
| 4 | Which means that my husband was the innocent victim of some hideous double-dealing within the Miletti family ! |
| 5 | From a very young age I learned that my duty was the single most important factor in my life and that everything I did must be dedicated to it . |
| 6 | I assured him that Nigel Carter would n't dream of playing tricks like that , but the discovery that my replacement was the son of the friend of a friend , one of his own kind , was a further blow . |
| 7 | In August 1985 the Supreme Council of the Afghan mujahidin Alliance , based in Peshawar , reiterated that its goal was the establishment of an independent Islamic state and declared that no power had the right to impose a political solution or a leadership on Afghanistan that did not satisfy the resistance fronts . |
| 8 | It is not quite true to say that the price of Attlee 's policy was partition , but it is true to say that its price was the early and firm acceptance of the inevitability of partition . |
| 9 | Mr Evans-Lombe said that it was plain that Mrs Wordingham had intended that her husband should receive the income under her 1989 will , and that its omission was the result of a mistake by the solicitor in carrying out his instructions . |
| 10 | Bush stressed the importance of the family unit , and stated the view that its dissolution was the single most important factor in the growth of social problems . |
| 11 | It was no coincidence , perhaps , that its president was the Marquess of Salisbury , married to Mollie Salisbury who had spent so much time helping with the garden at Highgrove . |
| 12 | She was a prim and proper little Fraulein , although her father was the villain , and Carruthers loved her , but dared not speak to her without a chaperone . |
| 13 | But he knew , deep down , that her attraction was the very fact that she did not . |
| 14 | I never thought that her uncle was the American ambassador ! |
| 15 | She sounded tired but , though her breathing was laboured and painful it seemed to Creggan now that her voice was the only friendly thing left in his world . |
| 16 | It was explained to her that her wound was the source of the discomfort and she was given an intramuscular injection of pethidine 75 mg . |
| 17 | Ruth thought he looked rather like a baby monkey , but she assured Rosie that her son was the most handsome child she had ever seen . |
| 18 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 19 | Richardson stated that her aim was the reduction of public expenditure from its current level of 41.7 per cent of GNP to the 1970 level of 30 per cent by the end of the decade . |
| 20 | It has been perceptively written that her victory was the product of a kind of ‘ peasants ' revolt ’ within the Tory Party . |
| 21 | Perhaps she was being silly in thinking that her job was the stumbling-block between them ; it was a pebble in the path certainly , but Maria Luisa was the actual stumbling-block . |
| 22 | But then both you and RIPPOE said that her mother was the same and always arrived late and so on for everything , so perhaps it is genetic ! |
| 23 | The late Mrs Clerk-Douglas of Holmill relates that her great-grandfather was the last inhabitant , with the exception of an old woman , a servant of the family . |
| 24 | Increasingly it becomes clear that her plight was the result of her poor health ; in addition to the regular help she was receiving , the overseers had the generosity to pay her various ad hoc amounts as the need arose , ‘ On acct. being sick ’ . |
| 25 | What we were looking for in Committee , and what the children 's legal aid centre was looking for , was a declaration that the Government 's signature to the United Nation convention on the rights of the child would be enshrined in the spirit of law in this country and that there would be independent panels that could look after the welfare of the children to ensure that their welfare was the primary consideration . |
| 26 | He realized that their loyalty was the firmest basis of his own personal power , that he needed them as they needed him . |
| 27 | Gorbachev 's address emphasised that the USSR and its people were ‘ part of a world community ’ and that their goal was the ‘ humanisation of international relations ’ . |
| 28 | For many years American railways appear to have assumed that their goal was the building and running of railways . |
| 29 | As an initial hypothesis , this seems reasonable : given the amounts of money involved in the experiment , and the fact that their payment was the total over the eight periods of the experiment , this would seem to be a reasonable approximation . |
| 30 | The best of the autograph collectors would not have accepted for one minute that their pursuit was the poor relation of manuscript collecting proper . |