Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that diesel was the right decision for us , ’ he says . |
| 2 | The importance of the relationships between research and practice was the focus of a joint CCETSW and Personal Social Services Council working party in 1980 . |
| 3 | A measure of the relief from intractable heartburn and regurgitation was the patients ' expressed willingness to repeat the operation given circumstances similar to those before the first fundoplication . |
| 4 | A better balance than elsewhere between industry and agriculture was the advantage she derived from slower industrial growth ; she also owed to it some of her resilience and powers of recovery after two world wars . |
| 5 | Rock and roll was the musical focus of this youth subculture , and the reaction which the Teddy Boys engendered was one of outrage and panic . |
| 6 | However , the Leeds system has been criticised on various grounds , the major complaint being that repeated adjournment of individual cases , and randomised outcomes to test whether adjournment or supervision was the more effective , was illegal . |
| 7 | Sir Philip Sidney 's claim in The Defence of Poetry that poetry was the consequence of art , imitation , and exercise may stand as much as an observation about who was able to produce poetry during the Renaissance as how it should be produced . |
| 8 | But it was obvious to even the meanest intelligence that surprise was the least descriptive word to be applied to her . |
| 9 | " Her choosing that wine was the effect of what you said about its edge . " |
| 10 | It was on his prompting that ethnic drop-out youths were now accepted onto college courses without formal qualifications ; it was on his urging that examinations were now being set and marked in Urdu and other minority languages , the faculties shamed at last out of their insistence that English was the only language in the world that counted . |
| 11 | Totally consistent with this view of the Army 's responsibility for maintaining law and order was the notion that justice should be administered by soldiers in military tribunals . |
| 12 | A second factor in the South and East was the decline in rural manufacturing employment , in particular the loss of hand spinning in cottage households . |
| 13 | He had so many wives that there was no counting them and the wives had so many young that even Frith could not count them and they ate the grass and the dandelions and the lettuces and the clover and El-ahrairah was the father of them all . " |
| 14 | At night the place was jumping , the whistling urinals were all occupied , and then the smell of piss and semen was the smell of ecstatic terror , for we never knew when the place would be raided by the cops , and the person standing at the next stall playing with himself might be a copper 's nark , an informer or an agent provocateur . |
| 15 | One of the reasons for the slow advance in understanding syphilis and gonorrhoea was the belief that the two conditions were simply different manifestations of the same disease . |
| 16 | Verbal abuse and disorder was the most common category of offence followed by pitch invasions or encroachments . |
| 17 | It began as a Bill primarily to deal with the recommendations of the Uthwatt Report ( 1942 ) and the question of compensation and betterment was the cause of most of the indecision and uncertainty . |
| 18 | Cathy Wallis , a computer programmer , believes the policy has improved the quality of her working life and would definitely think twice about accepting a job where smoking was the norm . |
| 19 | In a post-war climate where nationalisation was the key component in the economic sphere , and reorganisation and rationalisation of what already existed the most characteristic feature of social policy , ‘ planning ’ failed to dislodge the established administrative systems or to overcome the temptation to make do with ad hoc measures . |
| 20 | Labour , the most united of the three parties , fought the election on the basis that socialism was the true answer to Protection . |
| 21 | After six months as Premier , however , Baldwin told the Conservative Party Conference that unemployment was the gravest domestic issue which the country had to face , and that ‘ if we go pottering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time ’ . |
| 22 | In his chairman 's report for the 1947 season , Rawlins Hawtin recorded the comment made to him , during the match with Surrey at Peterborough , by Herbert Strudwick , who ‘ volunteered his opinion that Fiddling was the best wicketkeeper in England ’ . |
| 23 | I will not make use of the ransom theory in my retelling of the drama , but I shall cling on to the primitive belief , which I believe to be the correct biblical one , that God 's atonement in incarnation and cross was the crucial victory in the Great Battle not only over sin but also over the Devil and the powers of darkness . |
| 24 | Although such volumes endeavour valiantly to stress her various charitable works , especially among the enslaved and oppressed Indians , and her experiences of a mystical marriage to Christ , Rose of Lima 's real claim to fame and sanctity was the extraordinary life of violent and self-inflicted penance which she maintained from extremely early in her childhood until she died . |
| 25 | He did well with the theatre and the media lot because he treated them contemptuously , co-opting Rory Collins as a fellow scourge of sloppy liberals , a man who for all his cash and flash was the real thing , the sort of guy you 'd go into the jungle with , the sort of guy who was his father 's son . |
| 26 | ‘ You must have rennet spilling out of your ears , ’ Algy said to Louise , who by now was beyond taking pleasure in such moves of friendliness and simply handed round the dish with her left hand behind her back as she had been taught , feeling mutinous and thinking proudly of a homeland where not junket but fondue was the commonplace . |
| 27 | Was that conclusive evidence that insanity was the salary of meddling with necromancy ? |
| 28 | These charges seemed to be validated by a comparison with other contemporary courts , such as that of Russia or Austria , where a more traditional pattern of behaviour and etiquette was the fossilized norm . |
| 29 | The measure of my outrage and anger was the measure of my love for you . |
| 30 | One of Howard 's obsessions was indeed that idleness and unemployment was the cause of many of the problems facing a prison administration . |