Example sentences of "that [art] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
| 2 | The ANC president said that the decision was the result of " tensions " arising from differences on a number of issues . |
| 3 | It was agreed that the wife was the chatelaine par excellence . |
| 4 | ‘ It is agreed that the wife was the chatelaine par excellence . ’ |
| 5 | If , however , the summons is returned by the post office , the district judge will normally require proof that the address was the up-to-date registered office on the date of service before deeming service to have been effected . |
| 6 | The impact of this news upon the whole Wordsworth set was shattering ; many of his biographers feel that the experience was the pivot on which Wordsworth swung from youthful to middle-aged attitudes , from liberal to Tory opinions , from atheism to orthodox Christianity . |
| 7 | ‘ He can excuse himself by showing that the escape was owing to the plaintiff 's default ; or perhaps that the escape was the consequence of vis major , or the act of God ; but as nothing of this sort exists here , it is unnecessary to inquire what excuse would be sufficient . |
| 8 | This point was proved by showing in evidence that the vehicle was the wrong way round , i.e. the offside or right of the vehicle was next to the kerb or that the nearside was not as close as may be to the kerb . |
| 9 | But what is it that we believe when we believe that one thing caused another , that the second was the effect of the first ? |
| 10 | The company will also be estopped if the transferee has relied on a false statement in his transferor 's certificate that the transferor was the registered holder of the shares on the date stated in the certificate . |
| 11 | She had spent months regretting her experience and crying over it , but suddenly decided that the past was the past . |
| 12 | A Stourbridge resident working in Kidderminster library subsequently told me that The Slug was the nickname for the Stourbridge Town branch train . |
| 13 | Keynes argued that the slump was the result of deficient demand , and that the level of unemployment could only be remedied by increased government expenditure , financed by the printing and sale of government bonds . |
| 14 | Yet recent research has shown that the village was the centre of a great late Saxon estate that once extended north-east to Towcester , south-east to Buckingham , north to Chipping Warden and west perhaps well into Oxfordshire , and was also the site of a great Saxon minster church . |
| 15 | I would have thought that the opposite was the case . |
| 16 | In the text adjacent to the diagram , Copernicus justified his innovation by invoking ancient authorities ( including Hermes Trismegistus ) and by stressing that the center was the most fitting place fur the lamp of the universe . |
| 17 | Furthermore , Henry was not content with investing himself with merely an administrative and political imperium , but also claimed a spiritual supremacy , arguing that the monarch was the vicar of God . |
| 18 | Ever since he became leader , he knew that the election was the great test , and a test for which his curiously sheltered political career had little prepared him . |
| 19 | The contemporary evidence is fragmentary , but it is clear enough that the strike was the occasion for certain master printers to revive the idea of employing women . |
| 20 | Mr Pascall was determined to reassure the audience by reiterating his view that the framework was the answer . |
| 21 | Brian Steven , Commercial Director responsible for activities at Runcorn , explained that the reorganisation was the inevitable result of fierce competition . |
| 22 | Sometimes it has been argued that the evolution was the other way round ; and more recently still it has been argued that no evolution in either direction took place . |
| 23 | Justifying the price , Mace said that the software was the result of a $6 million development at 88Open and would save others years of development time . |
| 24 | There are a number of forensic tests to be carried out but I expect to find that the razor was the weapon . ’ |
| 25 | The essential point here is that the producer must show that the defect was the inevitable result of compulsory compliance with domestic or Community law . |
| 26 | She glimpsed a man busy at a cylinder , and again there was a hiss ! verifying that the cylinder was the source of the noise . |
| 27 | In your April issue , Telarc ran an advertisement for our new release of Gilbert and Sullivan 's The Mikado in which we claimed that the recording was the ‘ first ever all-digital recording of Gilbert and Sullivan ’ . |
| 28 | He added that the delay was the unfortunate result of three emergency calls arriving within an hour . |
| 29 | Do it , as always , at a safe height and remember that the tail was the most difficult function to control initially and is the most likely one to give you problems when the action is the opposite of what you have come to expect . |
| 30 | The mania for forming industry consortia is getting so out of hand that a group of leading manufacturers , software developers and vendors are coming together to make some sense of it and eliminate duplicated effort by creating a single consortium to which everyone will be invited to belong : there is no confirmation of suggestions that the idea was the first initiative from new IBM Corp chief Louis Gerstner , who accedes to the top job today , but we hear that the army of companies is still bogged down arguing about what to call the thing — the best they 've dreamed up so far is the Consortium for Object-oriented Methods and Programming for the Unix Terminal and Enterprise-wide Recasting of Interactive Networked Database Undertakings with Software Transitioning and Revision for Y'all , but they ca n't find a snappy acronym to fit the words . |