Example sentences of "the [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Steam-heated hauled stock was also eradicated , and the response was the reclassification of more Class 31/4s and 47/4s , plus the first Class 37/4s . |
| 2 | er , if you just to avoid doubt , it looks as though , as we presume we go back to one , three , four that 's less than the income was the revenue from things like the guest room and er the lounge and so on , you see ? |
| 3 | The sticking-point was the continuing legacy of the Contagious Diseases Acts , and the wider fear that the profession was still sunk in ‘ blind materialism ’ . |
| 4 | The only new product on the stand was the RA2000 Escort , which now wo n't be in the UK until November after what Ford described as an ‘ unfinished development programme ’ slowed things down . |
| 5 | Making its debut and dominating the stand was the brand new First 53f5 , born of a collaboration between naval architect Bruce Farr , and stylist Pininfarina , with Bénéteau themselves contributing a considerable amount of production engineering technology . |
| 6 | The Sanhedrin was the highest court of Jewish law . |
| 7 | The origin of the Sanhedrin was the seventy men Moses appointed to assist him in judging the people of Israel . |
| 8 | The Sanhedrin was the official court of Jewish justice ( see chapter 1 ) . |
| 9 | The remainder was the yield on various customs and excise duties levied primarily on beer , spirits , wines , tobacco , cocoa and other ‘ luxury ’ items which varied a little from budget to budget . |
| 10 | Colborne was pulling the other way : he said there was a social revolution going on outside the palace gates ; he believed young people needed leadership as they never had needed it before , and the Prince was the one who could lead them . |
| 11 | The base was the size of a cheese plate . |
| 12 | The immediate cause of the split was the constitutional changes taking place in the Labour Party ; it was not that the Gang of Four and their sympathizers objected to reforms which improved internal party democracy , but they opposed the particular type of reform which was designed to strengthen the position of Left-wing elements in the Labour movement . |
| 13 | Genesis 3 , Verse 1 : ‘ The serpent was the most subtle of all wild beasts in that garden God had made . ’ |
| 14 | The essence of the change was the removal of sin from the ambit of the law . |
| 15 | The catalyst of the change was the much publicized premiere of Die Meistersinger in Munich in June . |
| 16 | this meant that the mercury was the first newspaper to be published outside those places . |
| 17 | The natural plaster was exactly the same colour as the pink in the brick , while the yellow in the brick was the same colour as the Rayburn , so it all started to pull together . |
| 18 | After being whacked six nil at Crewe Hereford needed a pick me up … the tonic was the first goal against Colchester an absolute gem … |
| 19 | The last decade of the struggle was the 1680s and the period is known as ‘ The Killing Times ’ . |
| 20 | Twenty mothers were involved , and the main focus of the trial was the role of cow 's milk in causing colic . |
| 21 | The lieutenant was the first to reach the wire but was immediately ‘ it by several bullets , and there were only two men ahead of me at the time . |
| 22 | The award was the second international recognition of SHARQ 's safety record in 1991 — in November SHARQ received the British Safety Council 's Sword of Honour , an award bestowed on only 30 companies worldwide . |
| 23 | The Board was the bridge ; he was going to keep his hand on the wheel . |
| 24 | For a time he lost himself in the game , his whole self gathered up into the shapes the stones made on the board , until it seemed the board was the great Tao and he the stones . |
| 25 | The most important factor reducing fear of the sack was the reduction in unemployment , which increased the chances of getting another job quickly . |
| 26 | They often had this sort of conversation , and Constance always made allowances for Scarlet 's naivety : such slowness on the uptake was the result of a sheltered background and not necessarily a sign of limited intelligence , though she sometimes wondered . |
| 27 | The catalyst was the Crichel Down Enquiry in 1954 by the Minister of Agriculture into the sale and subsequent choosing of a tenant for Crichel Down in Dorset which had been purchased during the war as a bombing range ( Griffith , 1955 ) . |
| 28 | The catalyst was the atmosphere of the airport . |
| 29 | The cinema was the Screen on the Hill in Hampstead , one of the new and welcome brand of cinema which dispenses coffee and snacks as well as the usual array of warm Maltesers and plaque-inducing popcorn . |
| 30 | The winner was the Viennese architect Gustav Peichl , who proposed a straightforward rectangular design giving over 4,300 square metres of exhibition space on several levels . |