Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The centre of agriculture was the villa , and many of these were built in Suffolk . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His only admission of worry was the debate over marketing boards . |
| 11 | To Socrates , the only acceptable kind of literature was the fable — a straight-forward medium for conveying necessary truths . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And we decided that from then on the performance should be naturalistic , which of course was the point of Joe Orton 's dialogue . ’ |
| 16 | Oh , yes , yes , its erm , erm County Hall of course was the County Control Centre for erm air raid precautions |
| 17 | Of course was the answer was yes so Christine asked her local paper , The Guardian , to print an urgent plea for wool . |
| 18 | Greg had first read it as ‘ Homosexual ’ , and that of course was the joke . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Another area of difficulty was the elimination in the group statement of the considerable inter-group business , which required a lot of detailed workings . |
| 21 | One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south . |
| 22 | It was an episode that affected the children in many different ways , but running through the diversity of experience was the trauma of family separation and the culture shock of coping with a new environment . |
| 23 | Lord Goddard CJ at p238 stated : As I say , I think it is argued here that the source of income was the contract [ with the bank ] . |
| 24 | ‘ I think the biggest waste of money was the baby bath and stand . |
| 25 | In the cramped Covent Garden offices , a chaotic hubbub of creativity was the paper 's modus operandi . |
| 26 | No less a personage than a Member of Parliament was the victim , doubtless the accident report attributed the tragedy to driver error , and the outcry followed . |
| 27 | And the dying welfare state brought its own newspeak as well : governments ' failure to link child benefit , unemployment pay and so on to the cost of living was the fight against inflation ; putting children on half-time schooling was referred to as giving parents a free hand ; closing hospitals and dumping dying patients on the doorsteps of unwarned and distant relatives was community care ; and a new political movement that saw remedies to the whole predicament , if only the nation 's women would buckle down to traditional role and biological destiny , was known quite simply as FAMILY . |
| 28 | More important for the long-term programme of submission was the fact that they agreed to allow Christian missionaries into their lands . |
| 29 | A further very important feature of this type of experiment was the demonstration that the nervous system will only develop if future muscle and adjacent cells on the outside move in underneath the outer layer . |
| 30 | A classic example of this kind of study was the work of the Harvard statisticians Frederick Mosteller and David Wallace on the Federalist Papers . |