Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the key obstacles to achieving a significant deficit reduction was the President 's 1988 pledge not to raise taxes , one of the few firm commitments made by Bush during his entire presidential election campaign . |
| 2 | Monetarists argued that excessive growth in the money stock was the root cause of the inflationary problem , and that any tradeoff between inflation and unemployment was at best temporary . |
| 3 | The specific focus of the Loughborough University research was the effect of the national curriculum on secondary school libraries . |
| 4 | Well the election agent was the man responsible for getting that data through to the , the candidate to say that you 're speaking at a meeting , such and such a night , and another meeting at such and such so keeping the , keeps that candidate on his toes , all the time , during an election campaign until election 's over and then of course er you know what transpires after that I su it 's either |
| 5 | Despite the predominance of the medical faculty in attracting research grants , the unit with the largest contract turnover was the archaeology department . |
| 6 | In Britain , the key change was the removal of the ‘ corset ’ on banks in 1980 . |
| 7 | The key change was the announcement that the income tax charge on company dividends is from 6 April to be cut from 25 to 20 per cent and that the accompanying tax credit will also be cut to 20 per cent . |
| 8 | There was a time when the humble pedicab driver was the symbol of the hard-working migrant who left the village for the bright lights of Jakarta . |
| 9 | Police suspected a man in a silver car was the murderer . |
| 10 | Lansdowne Road has seen some famous victories this year and the Dublin Sports & social Committee was not to be outdone as Lansdowne Football Club was the venue for its latest undertaking . |
| 11 | An essential part of BRAC 's oral therapy programme was the reinforcement and monitoring of the message conveyed by the Oral Replacement Workers about the lobon-gur solution . |
| 12 | The agency chiefly concerned with neighbourhood liaison was the City Planning Office , which employed a number of community planners responsible for consulting with their allocation of neighbourhood groups . |
| 13 | The ultimate in the clean break philosophy was the shipping of thousands of deprived children to Canada and Australia , ‘ not all of them orphans and not always with their parents ' knowledge or consent ’ . |
| 14 | The unqualified use of the public meeting in the later stages of the emancipation campaign was the product both of an urgency amongst primarily a younger generation of abolitionists and a changed political context . |
| 15 | For three days the murder room was the haunt of SOCO and the Detective Chief Inspector as they quartered every inch in search of fingermarks , blood or saliva samples and other prey for their relentless , questioning minds . |
| 16 | The employers , with new-found spirit , informed the Minister that labour unrest was the result of political rather than economic conditions , and withdrew from the discussions . |
| 17 | In the twenties Halling football team was the pride of the village and when one of its players , " Nobby " Clark died suddenly after a game , the whole village mourned . |
| 18 | Beyond the back sitting room was the conservatory , full of geranium pots , and piles of old magazines , and thick with dusty heat , and beyond its glass windows , the garden lay . |
| 19 | Henry had been invited on to the chat show chiefly because the new snooker champion was the guest of honour . |
| 20 | Perhaps the reason Zeppelin were so despised after the punk revolution was the fact that they were the ultimate muso band . |
| 21 | Perhaps the reason Zeppelin were so despised after the punk revolution was the fact that they were the ultimate muso band . |
| 22 | On Sunday night , a visit to Sister 's rest hut to join in the hymn singing was the highlight of the week . |
| 23 | No : ludicrous , he thought next morning , when the first thing in his waking head was the image of his sealion self with a wife . |
| 24 | This cell suspension was the basis for all the experiments . |
| 25 | The sun was shining at the Manor Ground … but Oxford finished under a cloud … the silver lining was the form of some of the young players especially Matthew Keble who was making his debut … |
| 26 | Suddenly , the loyalist outcry over the arrests in the Rathcoole district was the government 's best friend . |
| 27 | The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history . |
| 28 | My mail gig was the post bus from Achnasheen to Kinlochewe , horse power converted to cylinders and passing places obviating diversionary tactics with oncoming vehicles . |
| 29 | Opposite to Street 's display in the exhibition was an even grander show which The Saturday Review thought was the product of another ‘ master hand ’ and , as it assumed that the building would be Gothic , to avoid failure the Government should employ the two architects jointly . |
| 30 | He had shown her how the frontispiece illustration was the key to it . |