Example sentences of "[n mass] [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Set in the pretty Lanarkshire town of Biggar the gasworks were the last in Scotland , now preserved for future generations to show how this once thriving industry provided gas for both private homes and street lighting . |
| 2 | No less culpable was Artemesia 's father , ’ The trial only took place because Artemesia 's father , Aratsio , considered the rape a violation of one of his household objects which was now devalued.This was the only reason Tassi was taken to court , this and the fact that he stole some of Aratsio 's paintings . ’ |
| 3 | The most spectacular of the new aircraft was the Type 1 . |
| 4 | The aircraft was the first salvaged from the Soviet Union to arrive in the UK . |
| 5 | Upon finding the wreck the FORI hope to be able to identify the serial plates on the engines of the aircraft , proving that this aircraft was the mount of Saint-Exupery , thereby laying to rest the many mysteries and rumours that have over the years surrounded his death . |
| 6 | This aircraft was the first Boeing 727 to carry fare-paying passengers on a commercial flight , that being a schedule from San Francisco to Salt Lake City and Denver , Colorado . |
| 7 | Built at Bankstown in 1940 , the aircraft was the third example from the Australian production line and as such is the oldest surviving Aussie Tiger . |
| 8 | Only modification to the aircraft was the fitting to two extra fuel tanks totalling 40 gallons . |
| 9 | One thing I did not like about the aircraft was the flap lever which is mounted on the left side of the aircraft and needs a hefty pull to operate . |
| 10 | RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire has admitted one of its Tornado aircraft was the mystery plane which ‘ buzzed ’ Teesside this week . |
| 11 | The aircraft was the standard workhorse of Soviet medium-haul routes , a Tupolev 154 jet , six seats abreast . |
| 12 | The median value of their personal property was £15 , but £20 was the most typical assessment , well above the £6 of the average husbandman . |
| 13 | Among the forward-looking theologians who were trying to come to terms with the new scientific data was the Dean of St Paul 's , Canon H.L. Mansel , who gave the Bampton Lectures in 1858 . |
| 14 | One of the most striking features of the data was the abundance and extreme characteristics of Labrador Sea Water ( LSW ) in the western part of the survey . |
| 15 | The study which pushed the techniques discussed here furthest in the direction of theorising about personality on the basis of attitude survey data was the celebrated work of Adorno and his colleagues reported in The Authoritarian Personality . |
| 16 | He said the biggest element in the rise from last year 's £309 was the Government 's withdrawal of the ‘ safety net ’ , which adds £14.87 to each bill . |
| 17 | We know from the parable of the labourers in the vineyard that one penny or one donarius was an accepted whole day 's wage for a twelve day in the heat of the sun in the great harvest , so the two pence was the equivalent of two days ' wages . |
| 18 | For practical purposes £10 was the minimum assessment of clothiers and men of similar standing ; the high proportion in Suffolk worth upwards of £100 is not matched by any other extant muster book , and is unlikely to have been equalled anywhere else outside London . |
| 19 | The big occasion for country folk was the A&P Show . |
| 20 | Thus , if cc was the only causal circumstance for an event e , then cc was no more than a set of conditions or events which necessitated e , and preceded e , and was dependently necessitated by e . |
| 21 | I packed up and went to follow the scales and 7 lb was the top until it came to Tony who weighed 10 lb dead . |
| 22 | This scabious was the first one to reach Britain from Italy in the early seventeenth century , and was known as ‘ The Mournful Widow ’ . |
| 23 | The muffled bellows were the only sounds he could make as his face was pushed closer and closer to the glowing rings . |
| 24 | More indicative of future trends than this rising from within the officer corps were the activities of the Petrashevtsy in the 1840s . |
| 25 | In view of the problem of the masking of environmental heterogeneity , they found that small plots of 40 x 50 m were the most profitable in terms of time and information gained ( even though they recorded only 500 common tree species in 35 families ) , and that for phytomass studies small plots were adequate . |
| 26 | Fish should be eaten , she said , because fish were the guardians of the soul , and she was so powerful in her belief that nobody dared to disagree . |
| 27 | And within the vertebrates , the fish were the ‘ lowest ’ class and the mammals the ‘ highest ’ — since we ourselves are mammals and the Victorians were convinced that the human race was the pinnacle of creation . |
| 28 | Thousands of dead fish were the result of toxic chemicals being dumped in this brook near Coleford . |
| 29 | The first training centre for refugee recruits to the Pioneer Corps was the Kitchener Camp at Richborough in Kent . |
| 30 | The only thing that worked with the odd fish was the open bale-arm , but more often than not the bream dropped the bait before I struck . |