Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The price they paid for admission was the sacrifice of industrial democracy : Co-operation by largely foregoing the promotion of Industrial Co-operation , trade unionism by making the maintenance or improvement of their members ' working conditions the prime object . |
| 2 | The solution of the Cadiz liberals for the colonial desire for self-government was the concession of full political rights to American citizens within a unified empire ; the colonies were an integral part of metropolitan Spain and would be ‘ freed ’ , with the same constitution that gave Spain herself freedom . |
| 3 | The unit I had for review was the wrist mounted version which had a rubber strap with a built in expander . |
| 4 | One critical aspect of the overall decline in the demand for labour was the discrimination that older workers believed employers exercised against them and in favour of younger ones . |
| 5 | In the short term though what was crucial for labour was the offer of more secure living standards . |
| 6 | The force working most clearly for uniformity was the growth in the child population , and since that was itself not uniform it was uneven in its effects . |
| 7 | His final act as President was the appointment of a transitional military government , headed by the Maronite Christian Army Commander Gen. Michel Aoun to replace the government of Selim al Hoss . |
| 8 | We all met at a pre-luncheon reception and then adjourned to the dining hall to sample the culinary delights which were to space our classes for the next five days ; four classes with dancing after dinner was the order of the day , all meticulously time-tabled . |
| 9 | The first person the majority of the sample ( 90 per cent ) turned to for help was the family practitioner . |
| 10 | The only monitor for management was the market . |
| 11 | Seventy five percent of solving the problem because the big problem for capacity was the in-bound on a Saturday morning which , of course , will be solved now |
| 12 | The final stage of assessment was the negotiation of a treatment contract , including which of the patient 's problems were going to be tackled and the practical arrangements for treatment sessions . |
| 13 | Lankester suggested that the driving force of progress was the struggle of organisms to cope with environmental challenge , and warned that degeneration threatened any species that took up a less stimulating environment . |
| 14 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 15 | One of the features of change was the emergence of a unique landscape along the coast , on the riverside and in the countryside : ‘ a makeshift world of shacks and shanties , scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape , with unmade roads and little in the way of services ’ ( Hardy and Ward . |
| 16 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 17 | The centre of agriculture was the villa , and many of these were built in Suffolk . |
| 18 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 19 | The central issue to be determined in this evolving process of acculturation and of bargaining was the proportion of the nation 's investment resources to be devoted to electricity supply . |
| 20 | Another source of worry was the baby girl that Panna , another of Chaman 's chelas , had adopted ; if ever it wheezed or coughed or refused its food , Panna would work herself up into an opera of agitation . |
| 21 | His only admission of worry was the debate over marketing boards . |
| 22 | To Socrates , the only acceptable kind of literature was the fable — a straight-forward medium for conveying necessary truths . |
| 23 | So they might well have had convenient discussions with the N R A as late as Friday even though their letter preem the Inspectorate 's letter was written on the eighth of September and Friday of course was the day after this letter had been released to us on our request and was was two days after the Selby committee had met on Wednesday . |
| 24 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 25 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 26 | And we decided that from then on the performance should be naturalistic , which of course was the point of Joe Orton 's dialogue . ’ |
| 27 | Oh , yes , yes , its erm , erm County Hall of course was the County Control Centre for erm air raid precautions |
| 28 | Of course was the answer was yes so Christine asked her local paper , The Guardian , to print an urgent plea for wool . |
| 29 | Greg had first read it as ‘ Homosexual ’ , and that of course was the joke . |
| 30 | Hysteria of course was the key to the development of Freud 's investigation of the unconscious , but English doctors were very reluctant to accept his theories , and the British Medical Journal consistently opposed Freudian ideas . |