Example sentences of "of [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final stage of assessment was the negotiation of a treatment contract , including which of the patient 's problems were going to be tackled and the practical arrangements for treatment sessions . |
| 2 | Lankester suggested that the driving force of progress was the struggle of organisms to cope with environmental challenge , and warned that degeneration threatened any species that took up a less stimulating environment . |
| 3 | One of the features of change was the emergence of a unique landscape along the coast , on the riverside and in the countryside : ‘ a makeshift world of shacks and shanties , scattered unevenly in plots of varying size and shape , with unmade roads and little in the way of services ’ ( Hardy and Ward . |
| 4 | Perhaps a major inhibitor of change was the teacher action that term over the teachers ' pay claim . |
| 5 | The age of hair was the first ⅗ of the 70s . |
| 6 | The basis of payment was the subsidy assessment of 1334 , but although this remained in use for the following two centuries , the variations in the extent to which relief was granted in the fifteenth century to communities which had declined in size and wealth since that date suggest that a genuine effort was made to judge their capacity to pay at particular times . |
| 7 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 8 | Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work . |
| 9 | The Commissariat of Agriculture was the key element within Pomgol . |
| 10 | The centre of agriculture was the villa , and many of these were built in Suffolk . |
| 11 | Probably the greatest cause of discontent was the issue of Public Lending Right , only partially defused since some authors began to receive Public Lending Right payments in 1983 . |
| 12 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 13 | I suggested earlier that one element in the construction of physics was the useful/useless duality . |
| 14 | The central issue to be determined in this evolving process of acculturation and of bargaining was the proportion of the nation 's investment resources to be devoted to electricity supply . |
| 15 | Another source of worry was the baby girl that Panna , another of Chaman 's chelas , had adopted ; if ever it wheezed or coughed or refused its food , Panna would work herself up into an opera of agitation . |
| 16 | His only admission of worry was the debate over marketing boards . |
| 17 | To Socrates , the only acceptable kind of literature was the fable — a straight-forward medium for conveying necessary truths . |
| 18 | Of course was the answer was yes so Christine asked her local paper , The Guardian , to print an urgent plea for wool . |
| 19 | Hysteria of course was the key to the development of Freud 's investigation of the unconscious , but English doctors were very reluctant to accept his theories , and the British Medical Journal consistently opposed Freudian ideas . |
| 20 | So , in general , I think we should be as sceptical er and critical of any of these proposed changes and the key point of course was the at the lack of accountability , but there 'll be even less accountability one suspects in the new consortium . |
| 21 | Greg had first read it as ‘ Homosexual ’ , and that of course was the joke . |
| 22 | Oh , yes , yes , its erm , erm County Hall of course was the County Control Centre for erm air raid precautions |
| 23 | Talking of Lester Piggott he of course was the winner of the first ever Channel Four personality of the year trophy which we awarded for the first time last year . |
| 24 | So they might well have had convenient discussions with the N R A as late as Friday even though their letter preem the Inspectorate 's letter was written on the eighth of September and Friday of course was the day after this letter had been released to us on our request and was was two days after the Selby committee had met on Wednesday . |
| 25 | And we decided that from then on the performance should be naturalistic , which of course was the point of Joe Orton 's dialogue . ’ |
| 26 | Er and of course was the old station master 's er house . |
| 27 | He of course was the man of the match on th Saturday , he sat here for the interview clutching the bottle of champagne that the club patrons had awarded to him for his performance . |
| 28 | Another area of difficulty was the elimination in the group statement of the considerable inter-group business , which required a lot of detailed workings . |
| 29 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 30 | One cause of friction was the discontent of BIA officers over the failure to implement promises of independence made publicly by General Iida of the Japanese army when the BIA first entered Tavoy in the south . |