Example sentences of "the [noun prp] [noun] [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | WHAT the Taylor Report offered was a chance for everyone concerned in soccer — officials , players , spectators , politicians even — to sit down and create a blueprint for the game for the next 100 years . |
| 2 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 3 | The first was the ‘ cult of the generalist ’ or ‘ all-rounder ’ which the Fulton Committee said was ‘ obsolete at all levels and in all parts of the Service ’ . |
| 4 | Rock and roll was the musical focus of this youth subculture , and the reaction which the Teddy Boys engendered was one of outrage and panic . |
| 5 | Mr Leckey said the shoot-out in which the IRA men died was a result of actions by the security forces over a threat to the life of a former UDR soldier in August 1988 . |