Example sentences of "[conj] the [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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1 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
2 | The agricultural future lay with cattle-raising ( the cow or the pig was the only cash product of the small farmer and was sold , to pay his taxes , in the markets that were the centre of Galician social intercourse ) , and this could not develop until railways brought the market centre of Lugo into contact with the mass consumption of Madrid and Barcelona . |
3 | Of course , like thousands of others around the world , I felt I ‘ knew ’ him from the wireless and his writings on the game ; but the training of binoculars on him in the commentary-box at Lord 's or The Oval was the nearest to physical contact . |
4 | As the reader will have realised , I went to a Woodard School — Denstone in Staffordshire — where the chapel was the hub of our existence . |
5 | The outcome fuelled speculation about possible realignments on the left in Greek politics , where the KKE was the major element in the Coalition of the Left and Progress ( Synaspismos , of which Florakis was president ) since its formation in 1989 , and had been part of the two government coalitions in power from July 1989 until February 1990 [ see pp. 36738-39 ; 37050-51 ; 37263-64 ] . |
6 | Where the wife was the erring partner , the husband could seek freedom from the obligation to provide such support . |
7 | The plaintiff claimed that the nationality of the successor in title was irrelevant where the claimant was the original owner . |
8 | 520 this court clearly regarded a condition in the terms of paragraph 33 as effective where the prosecutor was the party seeking the disclosure . |
9 | The jurist could consider holding a trust to be valid where the beneficiary was the same , although the trustee liable had in fact changed . |
10 | In the case of Archer-Shee v Baker ( 1927 ) 11 TC 749 , it was held that income arising to a beneficiary from a non-resident trust where the beneficiary was the sole life tenant resident in the United Kingdom was income receivable by the beneficiary from the specific securities stocks , shares , rents or other property which constituted the trust fund . |
11 | Amsterdam attendance figures were higher , at 445,000 , while for Berlin 's Gemäldegalerie , where the exhibition was the first major show to be held in a united Germany , visitors reached 330,000 in two months . |
12 | English where the background was the highly publicised trial of the paediatrician , Dr. Arthur . |
13 | Prince was ordained in 1840 , became curate in Charlynch , near Bridgwater , Somerset , where the rector was the Revd Dr Samuel Starky , and started a religious revival in Charlynch and the surrounding area , which Prince described in The Charlynch Revival ( 1842 ) . |
14 | Industry was primarily ‘ cottage industry ’ where the family was the unit of production . |
15 | Gilbert and Specht show that project workers used client participation effectively in the planning stage , where the process was the main consideration , work was non-directive , and the major skills needed of the worker were interactional in nature . |
16 | To this rule there was an exception where the defendant was the plaintiff 's bailee , for the defendant was regarded as being estopped from denying the plaintiff 's title unless evicted by title paramount or defending the action on behalf of the true owner . |
17 | This is confirmed by more detailed research evidence , for example Wenger 's ( 1984 ) study of elderly people living in rural North Wales , where she found that married and infirm people had distinctive patterns of personal support , where the spouse was the main helper for every task mentioned . |
18 | But neither the car nor the team was the real problem . |
19 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
20 | The ANC president said that the decision was the result of " tensions " arising from differences on a number of issues . |
21 | It was agreed that the wife was the chatelaine par excellence . |
22 | ‘ It is agreed that the wife was the chatelaine par excellence . ’ |
23 | If , however , the summons is returned by the post office , the district judge will normally require proof that the address was the up-to-date registered office on the date of service before deeming service to have been effected . |
24 | The impact of this news upon the whole Wordsworth set was shattering ; many of his biographers feel that the experience was the pivot on which Wordsworth swung from youthful to middle-aged attitudes , from liberal to Tory opinions , from atheism to orthodox Christianity . |
25 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
26 | This point was proved by showing in evidence that the vehicle was the wrong way round , i.e. the offside or right of the vehicle was next to the kerb or that the nearside was not as close as may be to the kerb . |
27 | But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ? |
28 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
29 | She had spent months regretting her experience and crying over it , but suddenly decided that the past was the past . |
30 | A Stourbridge resident working in Kidderminster library subsequently told me that The Slug was the nickname for the Stourbridge Town branch train . |