Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another Israeli concession was the presence at the negotiating table of Feisal Husseini , the unofficial lieutenant of the PLO leader , Yasser Arafat , in the occupied territories and a resident of Jerusalem . |
| 2 | One of the most controversial proposals was the abolition of benefit for the first two days of sickness . |
| 3 | The most striking change was the presence of a manual which describes policies and practices of the Decimal Classification Division of the Library of Congress , offers advice on classing difficult areas and explains how to choose between related numbers . |
| 4 | One of the company 's most profitable activities was the distribution of a piece of software made by Boeing . |
| 5 | On the basis of some remarkably weak clinical evidence he decided that the site of emotional experience was the cingulate gyrus , which lies on the medial surface of the hemispheres . |
| 6 | One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned . |
| 7 | The impetus for the development of this framework was the realization that a common point in discussions with managers of innovative activities was the issue of uncertainty . |
| 8 | His profound psychological insight owed a great deal to a neurotic streak , and it was no accident that one of his contributions to subsequent technical terminology was the term Angst ( ‘ dread ’ ) , and that he published books with such titles as The Concept of Dread , Fear and Trembling and The Sickness unto Death . |
| 9 | The most militaristic of all the uniformed groups was the Cadet Corps . |
| 10 | A NEUTRAL Budget for the agricultural industry was the verdict of Suffolk farmers ' leader Roy Goodwin . |
| 11 | But that debate should not obscure the fact that private investment was the key that unlocked the Channel Tunnel door . |
| 12 | The major radical political force was the Partai Kommunis Indonesia ( PKI ) . |
| 13 | The main political force was the NSF , which took power during the revolution and was credited with ordering the execution of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescu and bringing the fighting to an end . |
| 14 | The event which followed this restriction on instinctual action was the brothers banding together to kill their father , and the consequent guilt they experienced . |
| 15 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 16 | Who on the allied side was the equal of any one of them ? |
| 17 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | The exploitation of fur-bearing animals was the incentive for much of the early exploration of North America . |
| 19 | The winner of the Charles Douglas-Home Award for the most outstanding entry was the Cornerstone Garthdee Project in Aberdeen . |
| 20 | The best small car was the five-door Vauxhall Nova 1.3L , while the best medium-sized car was the Volvo 360GLE . |
| 21 | One key influence in the loosening of the relationship between the press and political parties was the decrease in the number of titles published and , in particular , of evenings and provincials ( see Table 3. 1 ) . |
| 22 | The gurgling noise was the rattling of Thomas trying to breathe through a restricted windpipe . |
| 23 | But undoubtedly the most important focus for nineteenth-century working-class sexual attitudes was the family , and it is in the context of specific family strategies and patterns that sexual mores developed and were transformed . |
| 24 | A sign of the native American prejudice against foreign groups was the revival of the Ku-Klux-Klan ( KKK ) in the 1920s . |
| 25 | But while England was coming to be seen as a reasonably important power after having looked very weak in the middle of the sixteenth century , a more conspicuous change was the emergence of the Netherlands . |
| 26 | He suggested that the main cause of social differentiation was the increase in population density . |
| 27 | Attached to the Palace at Hailing in medieval times was the Bishop 's or Church Prison , mainly used for detaining those accused of lesser crimes such as debt and was probably no more than a cell or a building without windows but lit from a small skylight . |
| 28 | The longest determinate prison sentence ever upheld by English courts was the sentence of forty-five years ' imprisonment in the case of Hindawi ( 1988 ) , a man who sent his pregnant girlfriend on a flight with a bag which contained a bomb timed to destroy the aircraft and its 350 passengers in mid-flight . |
| 29 | The suburban housewife was the dream image of the young American women and the envy , it was said , of women all over the world … |
| 30 | An interesting finding was the similarity of the samples from the same lacquered object , even if they had been taken from a different layer or area . |