Example sentences of "this [num ord] [noun sg] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas in the Ruhr Coal Basin i.e. at the southern margin of the N.W. German Basin , this first coalification was the only one ( in places at least the predominant one ) because , there , the coal reached its deepest level of subsidence and its highest rock temperature before the Asturian folding ( which occurred at the boundary between Westphalian D and Stephanian ) , this late Variscan folding combined with an uplift of the Carboniferous , was much less intense further to the north . |
| 2 | Among the interesting things to emerge from this first study was the way in which teachers equated formal evaluation exclusively with pupil assessment . |
| 3 | A more enduring product of this last trip was the motet Exsultate , jubilate , K. 165 , written for the principal singer Venanzio Rauzzini ( who was a male soprano , one of the many victims of the still prevalent barbaric custom of castrating the most talented boy singers before their voices broke ) . |
| 4 | A key figure for this last task was the archbishop of Canterbury , but not all were as reliable or as effective on the king 's behalf as Sudbury proved to be : Islip ( 1349–66 ) had not secured the sexennial grant requested in 1356 , although probably even Sudbury would have had problems with such an extreme proposal ; and after Sudbury , Courtenay ( 1381–96 ) was not always obliging . |
| 5 | This last comment was the only one I could feel was definitely true . |
| 6 | This last prospect was the one that caused the thin man most unease and was therefore the one he thought most probable . |