Example sentences of "[noun prp] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The visit to Wagner 's Swiss home , Tribschen , in mid-May was the first of over twenty such visits made between 1869 and 1872 , the year in which first BT appeared and then , a few months later , Wagner , with his wife Cosima , moved to illegitimate daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Wagner 's friend Hans von Bulow , eloped with Wagner in 1866 and married him in 1870 . |
| 2 | Sir Billy Butlin was the first to deal with the problem of the straying guest in his original holidays camps . |
| 3 | In twelfth-century legend St Valerie was the martyr ( J saint who personified Aquitaine and her story as told at Limoges — where she had lived and died and where her " thousand-year-old " body was still preserved was intended to show that Limoges was a more venerable city than Poitiers . |
| 4 | I ought perhaps to add that Edward Spelman was the man who said : " Good God , doth any fellow of a College know anything of Greek . " |
| 5 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 6 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 7 | So taken with this image was former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher that she let it be known throughout the realm that Marks & Spencer was the place she bought her underwear . |
| 8 | Certainly in his bachelor days Johnnie Spencer was the catch of the county . |
| 9 | Spencer was the leading advocate of this view on the MFGB executive , persistently advocating greater district autonomy and full membership balloting . |
| 10 | Whitsuntide was the traditional time for wearing new clothes and the little girls were all smart in their prettiest dresses , mostly white , with ribbons and flowers in their hair . |
| 11 | Also taken from Paracelsus was the idea that the new science and medicine were biblically sanctioned and destined to attain a new level of control over nature . |
| 12 | They were well placed to exert political pressure , for in 1753 Captain Robert Cunningham was the candidate for the parliamentary seat for this district , avowedly standing as a friend of the Duke of Argyll . |
| 13 | In the 1950s Montini was the man everyone wanted to meet . |
| 14 | But by mid-1989 , Kylie was THE figurehead of High Street fashion throughout Europe , which was very good news for Sydney 's pauvre couture set , who were beginning to find international recognition at last . |
| 15 | What bothered Hazel , Dandelion and Hawkbit was the openness and strangeness of the down and their inability to see very far ahead . |
| 16 | Glenn Stephenson was the star pupil of the group Mitchell nurtured . |
| 17 | Dingwall was the start for the journey into ‘ the great western wilderness ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Lawrie was the depute finance director for the Western Isles Islands Council from June 1984 until September 1991 . |
| 19 | Madeleine , however , had insisted he bring along a girl to make up a foursome and Primrose was the only girl available at the last minute . |
| 20 | Baur was the leader of the ‘ Tübingen school ’ which opened up new lines of study of the New Testament , and was the most widely influential and controversial movement in biblical criticism in the first half of the nineteenth century . |
| 21 | According to the Memorandum , the NL was the power behind the Militant Christian Patriots as well as having close connections with the IFL . |
| 22 | The sheets seemed as heavy as blankets and Flit was the only thing that prevented the mosquitoes descending on us like vultures . |
| 23 | Portugal was the original target for our fortnight 's holiday at the beginning of September , but Lisbon seemed a bit far , so we settled on Galicia , the north-western tip of Spain , and northern Portugal . |
| 24 | The expansion in manufactured exports to Portugal was the result of sixty years of prosperity in the gold mines of Brazil . |
| 25 | He knew that Marie was the perfect scapegoat . |
| 26 | ‘ Kenneth Wolstenholme was the commentator . |
| 27 | Rabbani was the sole candidate for the post . |
| 28 | As an NME writer Paul Morley was the most influential theorist of ‘ new pop ’ , combining a traditional reading of music 's emotional power with a modernist celebration of that power 's fleeting ambiguity . |
| 29 | As an NME writer at the beginning of the 1980s Paul Morley was the most pretentious and most entertaining of the new pop theorists . |
| 30 | Tuesday was the turning point , as well as a day of great joy . |