Example sentences of "[noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 2 | Religion was the only subject treated by the Khmer artists of the Angkor period : temples were lavishly embellished with sculptures of gods and goddesses , and bridges represented the rainbows that united people and their gods . |
| 3 | At the very centre of this whole divinely-dictated religion was the ark . |
| 4 | Religion was the first vehicle for general thoughts about existence . |
| 5 | Until the eighteenth century , religion was the only force to speak to the central concerns of human beings , the only explanation for human suffering which was available . |
| 6 | Mrs Reid 's religion was the love of humanity and she found it hard that the first women 's college should win so very little understanding or support at its outset , especially from men . |
| 7 | Religion was the greatest difficulty : the thin crust of philosophic theism was hardly capable of containing the wilder emotions of prophecy , ecstasy , mystery and ritual cruelty . |
| 8 | see and he started up that way and , and the religion was the most popular thing in the country , but all the people were outlaws . |
| 9 | Religion was the political issue which aroused the most passionate emotions amongst the population at large . |
| 10 | This was why religion was the one subject required by British law to be taught in schools . |
| 11 | Religion was the base for the principles of society and they are all for the good and well being of society . |
| 12 | His sense of isolation was the chief suffering of his life in Cambridge . |
| 13 | Mr Richard Dunn , managing director of Thames Television and chairman of the ITV Association , said the auction was the ‘ fatal flaw ’ in the bill . |
| 14 | The final development to create a more highly dynamised remedy was the change of the dilution factor from 1:100 to 1:50,000 . |
| 15 | The proper remedy was the ballot box and not the court . |
| 16 | The usual remedy was the special action of trespass on the case for negligently allowing one 's fire to escape in contravention of the general custom of the realm which we first hear of in Beaulieu v. Finglam . |
| 17 | The only disappointment was the fuel charges . ’ |
| 18 | One disappointment was the absence of scrum-half Andy Gregory , the half-back partner to Edwards for the past six years . |
| 19 | His first disappointment was the lack of a porter to carry his bags . |
| 20 | Fermented glucose was the most potent stimulant . |
| 21 | Dan Atkinson , deputy city and economics editor of the Press Association was the winner , and Anthony Hilton , the financial editor of the Evening Standard came third . |
| 22 | For the past two years , I have been questioning whether the Lawn Tennis Association was the right organisation to continue to be responsible for the development of a new generation of men and women tennis players who would be able to take on and compete on level terms with the rest of the world . |
| 23 | The second unexpected blow which befell the Association was the death , in 1967 , of Arthur Thomas Crellin , universally known as Tom . |
| 24 | The 1989 collapse of Keating 's California-based Lincoln Savings and Loan Association was the largest of the national thrift failures . |
| 25 | Whether the primary motive for the association was the wish to appear to be in partnership or to avoid being identified as sole practitioners was not clear , but the Tribunal drew attention to the fact that " such a sham partnership would serve to mislead the public who are entitled to believe that the persons being held out as being partners would enjoy the full relationship of support and responsibility which that state engendered " . |
| 26 | But , whatever their knowledge , of far greater importance in official thinking was the strategic value of a power source which lent itself naturally to centralized control , which was operated by a well paid , reliable work-force and which would continue to keep the miners at bay . |
| 27 | Matching the model club conditions in its advanced thinking was the first-class training headed by Chapman 's right-hand man Tom Whittaker . |
| 28 | The aim which obsessed military thinking was the winning of a decisive battle soon after the outbreak of war . |
| 29 | They had n't been able to– tell her whether he would automatically sense any new presences in his Dream , and lateral thinking was the Dreamer 's occupational disease . |
| 30 | Gregson was the first in and he looked across at Scott indifferently as Finn entered , smiling thinly by way of a greeting . |