Example sentences of "[coord] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cowen & Co was the lead underwriter . |
| 2 | What might be called ‘ external ’ interpretation or construction was the subject of Section 2 : jurists resort to construction , when there is evidently an intention on the part of a testator to achieve some object by means of some legal institution , in order to embody that intention in a legal framework . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This scream from a shattered soul is what really links Prince with Little Richard and James Brown , and why we link Prince to a lost golden era of pop when that pandemonium and hysteria was the norm , not a freak occurrence . |
| 5 | One natural source of finance and experience was the world of show business — live theatre and cinema . |
| 6 | He was previously published by Little , Brown , and Max Eilenberg for Heinemann and Mandarin was the underbidder . |
| 7 | Part of her motivation in caring for her younger brothers and sister was the wish to earn a special place in her parents ' affection . |
| 8 | For a moment he was n't sure if the sudden give and click was the lock opening or the key breaking but then the door almost unbalanced him by swinging open . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | There were more junior officials around them , and Pink was the centre of attention . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At the centre of this familiarity of human and divine was the assurance of being linked with a community which stood in God 's direct , face-to-face , presence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He was therefore as vital a figure as Salisbury , and in something of the same way : Salisbury was the link between the anti-coalition forces outside the government , and Law was the link between anti-coalitionists outside and critical Unionists within . |
| 15 | Separate from but related to the programme of privatization of state-owned industries and deregulation was the scheme for the sale of local council houses . |
| 16 | The Company sold guns to the Indians , but not as part of a process of political disturbance like that caused by the slave trade in West Africa ; Indian hunters quite soon preferred guns to bows and arrows for hunting , and hunting was the basis for the Hudson Bay trade . |
| 17 | When the Salvation Army met on 18 August to hold a thanksgiving service for the passing of the act , William Booth emphasized that the connection between legislation and morality was the keynote of victory . |
| 18 | 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 . " |
| 19 | On the opposite side to the door and window was the staircase , and two doors ; one of which ( the nearest to the fire ) led into a sort of little back kitchen , where dirty work , such as washing up dishes , might be done , and whose shelves served as larder , and pantry , and store-room , and all . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Dinner seemed to be hardly Italian at all , except that there was spaghetti , so English and German was the company . |
| 22 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 23 | ‘ It was fantastic , brilliant , great altogether , ’ she says , emphasising that one of the most appealing aspects of life with Mike Scott and Co. was the regularity and ferocity of sessions . |
| 24 | Carlson 's third group of subjects received initial Pavlovian training in which the auditory cues were correlated with reinforcer type , but the relationship between cue and reinforcer was the reverse of that in effect during the test stage . |
| 25 | His ambition was to create art even though he was blind and sculpture was the answer . |
| 26 | The measure of my outrage and anger was the measure of my love for you . |
| 27 | His correspondence with the queen , while it may confute accusations of lasciviousness , reveals the poverty of his courtier mind ; his main concern and topic was the health of the royal couple and his bond with Maria Luisa seems to have been hypochondriacal rather than sexual in nature . |
| 28 | We observed an inverse relationship between Ca 2 + and pH whether the change in Ca 2 + and pH was the result in variations in CO 2 tensions or to added HCl or NaOH . |
| 29 | Sensitivity was defined as the frequency of a positive test in all subjects with H pylori infection , and specificity was the frequency of a negative test in those without the infection . |
| 30 | In other areas where similar changes occurred at a slightly later date , the rise of mass material culture and retailing was the subject of some incisive commentary . |