Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reviving the classical grandeur of the railway carriage of Edwardian days , with all its silver-plated , lacetableclothed dining-car finery and mahogany-panelled parlour-car ambience , on the long-established route from London to Paris and Venice , the Orient Express was the brainchild of James Sherwood , head of the Sea Containers Group . |
| 2 | Another convincing Middlesbrough winner was the NorthEast intermediate javelin champion , Emily Harrison , who threw 34.78 metres . |
| 3 | Minton therefore had good reason to worry that the police might one day arrive to search the house , for one of the notorious aspects of the Montagu case was the disclosure that the police had done this without warrants . |
| 4 | Across the road from Magdalene College was the parish church of St Giles . |
| 5 | LAMPORT HALL was the seat of the Isham family for over 400 years . |
| 6 | Richard Burn was the author of the standard reference work on the Poor Law . |
| 7 | The centrepiece of the Arafat initiative was the creation of a UN-policed buffer zone between Israel and an independent Palestinian state . |
| 8 | The train shed of Paddington Station was the terminus of the Great Western Railway , and was built by Brunel ( q.v. ) and Matthew Digby-Wyatt in 1854 . |
| 9 | J Edgar Hoover was the cop who hated liberty . |
| 10 | The Lazio player was the scorer of one of the goals when a more orthodox Scotland side lost to Germany in Sweden by a larger margin during the European Championship . |
| 11 | It is believed that the Ungud serpent was the totem of the Wandjina . |
| 12 | In London , Hyde Park was the scene of one such demonstration as Desert Storm approached , with the theme ‘ No blood for oil ’ prominent . |
| 13 | Hard by the docks , the Cunard Building was the site of a special drop-in centre for veterans of the battle . |
| 14 | Canon law was the statement of how society was to be governed and here Innocent 's monarchic views are clearly shown . |
| 15 | Under Mr Ford 's byline on the editorial page of The Washington Post was the headline ‘ Poland : I Told You So ’ . |
| 16 | His studio in Camden Town was the centre of both the Camden Town Group and the London Group , and he was an active member of the New English Art Club . |
| 17 | The southern region embracing Saigon and the Mekong delta was the colony of Cochin-China ; the central area with its imperial capital at Hue was the protectorate of Annam ; and the northern region , Tongking , was also a separate protectorate with its capital at Hanoi . |
| 18 | A Concorde tug was the brainchild of PC Bob Gilbert based at Maidstone , Kent who also happens to be a member of the Vulcan Association . |
| 19 | Looking back , we can see that the Maastricht summit was the culmination of a long process — a significant stage in the development of the European Community . |
| 20 | Professor Fei Xiaotong of Beijing University was the chairman of the biggest Democratic party called the Democratic Alliance and he claimed that this party represented the interests of intellectuals and especially intellectuals involved in teaching ( Chan 1989 : 83 ) . |
| 21 | What specifically seems to have worried the Russians most about the Marshall Plan was the temptation it represented for eastern European states . |
| 22 | It is now the Ministry of Culture but during the Munich crisis was the seat of Beneš and the government of Prague . |
| 23 | Their race at the Maze Meeting was the subject of a sporting print called ‘ The Dean and the Quaker ’ and the name was later adopted by a local tavern . |
| 24 | A little man called Maurice Tarn was the auctioneer , and the sale was held in the fields alongside the Strathmore Arms . |
| 25 | What occupied our minds at nine o'clock on Monday night was the fear that our hero would be revealed to have hands of clay ; that , in short , he was not the musician we thought we remembered . |
| 26 | Monday morning was the laundry morning . |
| 27 | Very often there were problems getting everything done to time , and especially on the first season , availability of scripts for Monday morning was the cause of many a delay . |
| 28 | The only change affecting the Croydon area was the Greyhound — Thornton Heath route , which had lately carried the number 2 . |
| 29 | Martin Ling was the scorer this time . |
| 30 | Worse , emerging from the Dr Kildare collar was the head of a wild boar , complete with curly brown tusks . |