Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One advantage of computerized typesetting was the speed with which it could be learned . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A NEUTRAL Budget for the agricultural industry was the verdict of Suffolk farmers ' leader Roy Goodwin . |
| 7 | But that debate should not obscure the fact that private investment was the key that unlocked the Channel Tunnel door . |
| 8 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 9 | Who on the allied side was the equal of any one of them ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The winner of the Charles Douglas-Home Award for the most outstanding entry was the Cornerstone Garthdee Project in Aberdeen . |
| 12 | The gurgling noise was the rattling of Thomas trying to breathe through a restricted windpipe . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He suggested that the main cause of social differentiation was the increase in population density . |
| 15 | The suburban housewife was the dream image of the young American women and the envy , it was said , of women all over the world … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | What was most disastrous about the educated response to American and British cinema was the way in which good movies or movies that had impressed were conveniently forgotten . |
| 18 | The favourite illustration of a public good was the lighthouse : the conditions of non-excludability and non-rivalrous consumption were both met , and it was obvious that if governments did not provide lighthouses nobody would . |
| 19 | At the top of the social pyramid was the aristocracy , large landowners whose families had long served Moscow ( the boyars ) and ex-appanage princes who had gradually been drawn to the metropolis . |
| 20 | The proper remedy was the ballot box and not the court . |
| 21 | Despite the high quality of this multifarious output , Cary 's only public recognition was the award of the Society of Arts gold medal ( 1804 ) for publishing Singer 's Cardiganshire survey ( 1803 ) . |
| 22 | In the early twentieth century the demand for a separate Scottish Legislature was the result of national sentiment . |
| 23 | Of particular importance for the residential sector was the fact that 75 per cent of the children admitted compulsorily were placed first in some form of residential care , with half of them in observation and assessment centres or in reception homes ( p. 162 ) . |
| 24 | Her favourite scene was the sequence of Susan , partially concussed , menacing Ian with the points of a long pair of scissors , threatening to stab him until she gives in and vents her rage instead on the mattress of her bed . |
| 25 | The Bishop 's Castle Public Hall was the venue for an Exhibition and Lecture on the former Bishop 's Castle Railway on Thursday , 11 May 1989 . |
| 26 | The development of Nizan 's literary and cultural outlook was the result of something far more complex : the fusion of a highly idiosyncratic metaphysical view of the world , a wide-ranging and sophisticated cultural education , and a radical social and political viewpoint . |
| 27 | Imported raw cotton was the basis for the emergence of the most dynamic of the " new " manufactures , but as late as 1776 Adam Smith omitted cotton goods from his argument for a sustained expansion and downward spread of consumption of non-essentials over the " course of the present century " , and still found examples enough for his purpose . |
| 28 | In the countryside this was natural since this social grouping was the focus of local communication and leadership , but in Derry it meant that the Nationalist leadership was drawn too heavily from one social group . |
| 29 | This predominantly one-directional social mobility was the pattern up until the quadrupling of oil prices in the winter of 1973 — 4 , an event which , for the purposes of this book , is accepted as marking the end of the post-war period in Britain . |
| 30 | A characteristic feature of the English Forest was the appointment of knights of the locality to act as unpaid officers . |