Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [noun] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This for Diana was the satisfaction of that Sandringham weekend , not her proximity to Prince Charles . |
| 2 | A mild example of this from antiquity was the Roman Saturnalia at the time of the winter solstice . |
| 3 | An excellent example of this in practice was the East Anglian Rubber Windmill exercise described in Chapter 5 , demonstrating what could happen in the " internal market " if all pursued their private ends regardless of the public consequences . |
| 4 | This in fact was the main tack in the bishops ' attitude to the forum . |
| 5 | The book did not mention man other than obliquely , and it was not until 1871 that Darwin published The Descent of Man ; but it was clear from 1859 that the ancestry of man rather than that of horses was the crucial question . |
| 6 | Commercial tools and technology manager Nancy Colwell claimed that systems management tools from a company with longevity such as CA was the most highly requested demand from Sun users , while Sun president Scott McNealy claimed that Sun would have up to 10,000 commercial servers out in the field by the end of the year . |
| 7 | Another essential item then very much in vogue was the family bible ; the Titfords duly acquired one , ornately gilded and standing in its own glass-topped case , and proceeded to enter births , marriages and deaths as they occurred . |
| 8 | TOO much at stake was the message from both camps after an edgy Bass Cup quarter-final which Ards front man Harry McCourt almost settled four minutes from time . |
| 9 | The most important of these for Isabella was the English Woman 's Domestic Magazine ( EDM ) , a twopenny monthly launched in 1852 , which pioneered the middle-class woman 's magazine . |
| 10 | The most celebrated attempt to explain it all by numbers was the so-called Phillips curve [ 1958 ] . |
| 11 | The PLO 's capture of the hearts and minds of those under occupation was the first great blow to Israel 's policy of normalization . |
| 12 | When a storm of rare violence blew up the mariners , being superstitious folk , cast lots to determine which of those on board was the cause of the evil , and the short straw , broken domino or queen of spades was drawn by Jonah . |