Example sentences of "[was/were] the [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She turned to say something about this to Caspar and then stopped and listened , because now — yes , surely — there was the faint eerily beautiful singing of the sidh . |
| 2 | In the private sector printing was the only heavily unionized industry . |
| 3 | The Black prince was the only smoothly tapered statuette , easily grasped , eleven inches from helmet to plinth . |
| 4 | In the physical examination of the low grade/mixed grade group , abdominal tenderness was the only relatively common finding , occurring in 29% , and in 48% physical examination disclosed no abnormality . |
| 5 | Hiatal hernia was the only statistically significant predictor of oesophageal mucosal status . |
| 6 | After Leavis , students and teachers of English need no longer feel that their activities were trivial : on the contrary , theirs was the only morally serious university subject . |
| 7 | Lamarckism was the only morally acceptable theory of evolution , and Darwin was all the more to blame because he had concealed the fact that better mechanisms of evolution than his own had been proposed long before the Origin of Species was published . |
| 8 | The beat was the only genuinely musical element in it , of course . |
| 9 | Here was the only really contemporary test , and Bournonville failed it . |
| 10 | But representative government was the only really legitimate form of government . |
| 11 | Although chance dictates that the evidence relates to two major centres , the situation thereby depicted does not necessarily misrepresent the economy as a whole , inasmuch as clothing was the only really large-scale manufacture , ranking high even in towns like Leicester and Northampton which had leather wares for their principal products . |
| 12 | Thomas Carter came right out and told you that he thought England was the only truly civilized country in the world and that as the most English of English cities , Oxford was its heart and soul , the core of everything that had formed us , the repository of our values and the guarantor of our standards , an expression in stone of our whole Western civilization , a cultural Stonehenge which , etc , etc . |
| 13 | There was the sudden achingly sweet scent of burning logs on an autumn night and then the drift of thick , crisp , beech leaves in the depths of a forest and the Beech Naiad seemed to melt and shiver and dissolve into nothing . |
| 14 | The decline of organized networks around the turn of the century was the single most striking change in patterns of cattle theft during the British period . |
| 15 | Sybille was the single most important element which eased daily pressure for both her and Bernard in France . |
| 16 | From a very young age I learned that my duty was the single most important factor in my life and that everything I did must be dedicated to it . |
| 17 | Bush stressed the importance of the family unit , and stated the view that its dissolution was the single most important factor in the growth of social problems . |
| 18 | Thereafter , as Chief of Staff under the new government and then Defence Secretary , his unswerving loyalty was the single most important factor in Aquino 's defeat of the numerous coup attempts against her . |
| 19 | He said the government 's road building policy was the single most important aspect of policy responsible for loss of rural land . |
| 20 | On the other hand , for women not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given , and a considerably smaller share said they were working on a temporary basis because permanent work was not available . |
| 21 | For women , on the other hand , not wanting a permanent job was the single most important reason given ( 37 per cent ) . |
| 22 | While education was the single most significant activity the employers of Advanced Course students engaged in , when it came to job titles and the nature of the jobs the students were or would be doing , educational occupations were not dominant in the same way . |