Example sentences of "a [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A reversion was the grant of the right of succession to an office , made during the lifetime and tenancy of an existing holder . |
| 2 | I think one thing that blindfolded us a bit was the fact that the river was in spate at the time and if she had fallen in she 'd have been washed out to sea . |
| 3 | Since a sentence was the basis for execution , and the sentence was pronounced inter partes , execution too must have been similarly limited . |
| 4 | Part of Lewis 's discovery of himself as a writer was the discovery of a means of presenting himself to the reader . |
| 5 | Protecting retailers , banks , building societies and other lenders from exploitation by a heady few set on having a spree was the function of Credit Reference Agencies . |
| 6 | Before the death of Felix five leading churchmen of the civitas arranged that the archdeacon Garivald should become the next bishop , since such a succession was the norm . |
| 7 | One of the most important recent examples of such a study was the result of joint work by an anthropologist and an economist , and focused on critical appraisal of many of the assumptions about goods current in economics ( Douglas and Isherwood 1980 ) . |
| 8 | IN 1905 , when the Automobile Association was founded , ownership and use of a car was the privilege only of the rich . |
| 9 | A second was the Exchange 's wrist-slapping of London International Group . |
| 10 | A second was the emergence of a triangular relationship with the woman as ‘ pig in the middle ’ ; a particular point of concern was that the ‘ majority of husbands gave the impression of being quite distant from the situation ’ . |
| 11 | A column was the rubric under which the writer could put anything at all . |
| 12 | One advantage of so large a hall was the inability of all but the most vocal heckler to make himself heard . |
| 13 | Such a fragment was the Egyptian eighteenth dynasty crystalline limestone head of a queen or goddess , ( possibly Queen Mutnodjmet , according to Sotheby 's Dick Keresey ) . |
| 14 | A CAT was the victim of a cruel attack when she was shot in the neck by a pellet . |
| 15 | The last one-man show he ever held in London was staged at the Leger Gallery ( 1943 ) , and the only art school to accept him as a teacher was the Borough Polytechnic , where he taught part-time from 1945 to 1953 . |
| 16 | Wolski 's defences had crumbled and what some might have called a breakdown was the beginning of his recovery to the kindly determined man , or nearly man , he had been before Sobibor . |
| 17 | Q : How could you tell if a misfortune was the result of a curse , or just ordinary bad luck ? |
| 18 | The other thing that was a waste was the baby sling . |
| 19 | THE FIRST project to reach a conclusion was the team looking at the interface between our personnel and wages departments . |
| 20 | It was at one period customary , where a town was the centre of the see of a bishop and where in consequence there was a cathedral , to classify the town as a city . |
| 21 | If a magistrate or other influential figure in a town was the owner of a building in which an excise office was then located , he too was vulnerable to pressure should he waver in his loyalty to the political interest which had given him this tenant . |
| 22 | For my most recent birthday Danica , my godmother , had given me a wristwatch , thinking that such a gift was the dream of every girl . |
| 23 | The 1966 decision of the Hertfordshire Education Committee to nominate the College as a polytechnic was the challenge taken up by the development plan . |
| 24 | For coal bearing women , one report states , about 8 pence a day was the wage . |
| 25 | What brought her to a standstill was the realisation that her bedroom was under the eaves , so that the walls angled sharply towards the ceiling , lending the room a special character . |
| 26 | The link between judicial appointments and parliamentary politics has been one of the most durable connections , and it is therefore scarcely surprising that in the eighteenth century an appointment to the bench was not to be had without considerable political interest , and that this culmination of the career of a lawyer-freeholder was the reward of lengthy association with the great men of the period . |
| 27 | Looking at the Conference as a whole was the content : |
| 28 | There is no doubt , though , that inside the declaration to make a blockbuster was the whisper of an ideal . |
| 29 | I must admit a whippet was the dog that I originally wanted . |
| 30 | The final score of a strategy was the sum of the points it gained against all the other strategies . |