Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that burglary was the clincher . |
| 2 | The score for each trial was the number of correct letters of the trigram given in the right position . |
| 3 | In neither case was the customer owner of the goods at the time he disposed of them . |
| 4 | Only two patients with low grade or mixed grade disease died , but in neither case was the cause related to lymphoma . |
| 5 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 6 | The only possible basis for jurisdiction in that case was the service of the writ out of the territorial jurisdiction under Order 11 of the Rules of the Supreme Court . |
| 7 | But that case was the subject of research by Mr. Glick and his team , and was revealed ( from the reports in Lofft 655 and in the State Trials 20 St.Tr. 239 ) to be a cause celebre in which the great issue ( of immense public interest ) related to the power to levy taxes in the island of Grenada following its capture from the French King , it being accepted by the Crown without argument that the relevant taxes , if not duly levied , must be repaid . |
| 8 | What was at issue in that case was the right to acquire , use or dispose of immovable property on the territory of another member state ; the court held that that right was the ‘ corollary ’ of freedom of establishment . |
| 9 | One response to that plea was the convening in London , in March 1989 , of the Saving the Ozone Conference , attended by 124 nations ; among other topics , the delegates discussed possible international cooperation which would strengthen the Montreal Protocol ( Cramb , 1989 ) — a matter obviously requiring political will . |
| 10 | Reserved , enigmatic , a soldier rather than a statesman — it appeared withal that ambition was the protector 's guiding star . |
| 11 | That college was the stronghold of the " child-centred " approach to teaching young children , but the schools in the London area which successfully demonstrated the Froebelian philosophy were few and far between . |
| 12 | Beside each entry was the money lent and paid , with the interest and the date . |
| 13 | In equal isolation at the Intercontinental Hotel , 16 miles away , Lebanese journalists found themselves restricted to the parliament 's two opening statements and a diet of gentle assurances from Prince Saud al-Feisel , the Saudi Foreign Minister , that optimism was the order of the day , but while he had heard of some disputes in the parliamentary chamber , he had every reason to believe the Lebanese would accept the Arab League peace plan . |
| 14 | That card was the ace of clubs and Mr Roebuck won a fortune . |
| 15 | That card was the ace of spades — the death card ! |
| 16 | The impetus for the development of this framework was the realization that a common point in discussions with managers of innovative activities was the issue of uncertainty . |
| 17 | This market-place was the site of the annual fair , when swings , a roundabout with proper horses and a steam organ , shooting galleries , side-shows of all kinds and numerous stalls came to the town for three days . |
| 18 | One of the largest surveys of this kind was the University of Pittsburgh study . |
| 19 | However , the most valuable long-term effect of the plans for this index was the classification scheme which was devised in order to arrange it . |
| 20 | While both ideas turned out to be partially correct , the essential step in overcoming this difficulty was the application of an extra magnetic field — the so-called toroidal field — with lines of force parallel to the current flow round the torus . |
| 21 | But by far his main task on this story was the designing of the Mechonoids , or Mechons as the first scripts called them . |
| 22 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 23 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 24 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 25 | The target the researchers were working towards in this case was the ability for its systems to recover from transient errors and other faults in the software . |
| 26 | The answer in this case was the arrival of warm air and its combination with an area of low pressure over Britain . |
| 27 | Well , the spark in this case was the Spring issue 's piece ‘ Moving with the Times . ’ |
| 28 | History in this case was the product of a specialized group ; and the arguments about the quality of the product were about its beauty , metre , wit , rather than about its truth , typicality and meaning . |
| 29 | Though grouping of some kind was the norm in the classrooms we visited , our interview and observation data revealed it to be a somewhat problematic strategy for many teachers . |
| 30 | In any event , residence of some kind was the hallmark of establishment in so far as establishment involved economic integration in the host member state of a kind that was greater than that which arose from the provision of a cross-border service . |