Example sentences of "the [adj] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The evidence for Leicestershire , which had been very fully studied , shows that between 1485 and 1550 , 2.1 per cent of the total enclosure was the responsibility of the Crown , 17.6 per cent that of the monasteries , 12.1 per cent that of the nobility and 67.5 per cent that of the gentry ( 58 , pp.105 , 190–1 ; 82 , p.71 ) . ’ |
| 2 | The starting point for the Dobry inquiry was the lengthening delay in the processing of planning applications , but Dobry was quick to point out that ‘ not all delay is unacceptable : it is the price we must pay for the democratic planning of the environment ’ . |
| 3 | The hollow sound was the beginning of the game , not the end . |
| 4 | For example , he was not one of the Palace officials who tried to pretend that the Korean trip was the Togetherness Tour for the Prince and Princess . |
| 5 | The Korean trip was the ideal opportunity for Diana and Charles to put on a united front and quash the speculation over their marriage . |
| 6 | In this case , the teacher 's involvement in the collaborative writing was the problem from our point of view . |
| 7 | Focal point for the European launch was the Fishing 93 exhibition at Aberdeen on March 25–27 , when International 's BlueLine stand attracted plenty of interest . |
| 8 | Andy provided that , and his non-selection for the European Cup was the final clincher . ' |
| 9 | Sir Crispin felt that the European Community was the natural unit for dealing with environmental problems but not enough has yet been done in this area , since , for example , there is still no European environmental agency . |
| 10 | The most delightful thing about the Mas Rose was the water-supply . |
| 11 | Implicit in the anecdote about the sore head was the need to test the utterance . |
| 12 | The triple shell was the traditional coffin for the burial vault and brick-lined grave . |
| 13 | We calculated the risk factors for sudden infant death syndrome separately for Maori and non-Maori children , and the striking feature was the similarity of the risk factors , with the exception of infants sharing the bed with another person . |
| 14 | The indoor championship was the latest in a string of honours for the 28-year-old who has worked for the UK Courtaulds company for seven years . |
| 15 | The fact that the 79-year-old man was the oldest man standing trial for murder this century was an extra ingredient of interest . |
| 16 | The main issue dominating the political agenda was the uneasy relationship between Yugoslavia 's largest republic , Serbia , and the other republics , particularly Slovenia and Croatia [ see pp. 37973-74 ; 38080-81 ] . |
| 17 | Equally significant for the political equilibrium was the rapport which de Gaulle and Adenauer had with each other . |
| 18 | The most hazardous of all forms of patronage for the political manager was the presentation of a minister to a parish , for unless there was general agreement among the heritors and other parishioners , strong feelings were likely to be aroused in a church where patronage was still regarded as an alien intrusion without scriptural authority . |
| 19 | On June 21 the electorate voted in presidential elections in which the sole candidate was the incumbent , Saparmurad Niyazov . |
| 20 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | And the odd thing was the effluent looked better the worse it was . |
| 22 | The failed coup was the latest in a long sequence of clashes between the rival Khalq ( " Masses " ) and Parcham ( " Banner " ) factions of the ruling People 's Democratic Party of Afghanistan ( PDPA ) . |
| 23 | The unsigned letter was the first to attack Roy in this way among the 6,000 he has received since his cancer was diagnosed in March . |
| 24 | One of the reasons found to explain the non-use of the lobon-gur solution was the lack of cooperation from the village practitioners . |
| 25 | The key virtue was self-reliance ; the admirable man was the self-made man ; the goal was to be your own boss . |
| 26 | The second strand of the economic argument was the suggestion that industry would positively benefit from the encouragement , retention , and retraining of elderly workers . |
| 27 | A NEUTRAL Budget for the agricultural industry was the verdict of Suffolk farmers ' leader Roy Goodwin . |
| 28 | Who on the allied side was the equal of any one of them ? |
| 29 | The historic award was the first fatal accident claim to be started after the MoD lost its immunity from law suits in 1987 . |
| 30 | Although getting to the right beach was the first logical step in amphibious raids — as the ISTD Centre had implied in their 1938 studies — the chronological development of these operations was less orderly . |