Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [was/were] [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Silayev 's election was given the necessary approval by a large majority in the Russian Congress on June 18 . |
| 2 | Roscoe 's ambition was to drain the whole wetland , and to this end he organized ditching , marling , and importation from nearby Manchester of boatload upon boatload of human ordure , which was forked by hand on to the moss . |
| 3 | Mussolini took advantage of these largely theoretical impositions to say that the League 's intention was to destroy the Italian economy and , surprising as it may seem today , the people of Italy reinforced what proved to be his growing megalomania by demonstrating , when inspired to do so by the press , that they were ready to make any sacrifices that might be asked of them . |
| 4 | The virtuoso of the title is an amateur scientist , for part of Shadwell 's intention was to satirise the dottier pursuits of the recently formed Royal Society . |
| 5 | As the chief of the Army of the South , Franco 's plan was to occupy the western provinces of Badajoz and Cáceres ; link up with Mola 's troops , which were driving south-westwards from Navarre ; and advance eastwards on Madrid , following the natural line of penetration provided by the valley of the River Tagus . |
| 6 | One purpose underlying Althusser 's work was to rationalize the French Communist Party 's continued adherence to a pro-Moscow line and admiration for the Eastern-bloc system . |
| 7 | Brian Leith 's job was to film the political campaign of a Sarawak conservationist , when the last thing the campaign needed was Western broadcasters hanging around . |
| 8 | Chant 's body was discovered the following day by 93-year-old Albert Burke , who found it while looking for his errant mongrel , Kipper . |
| 9 | Antonio Gilvan da Cruz 's body was found the following morning . |
| 10 | Barnard 's achievement was to develop the ultraviolet microscope ( invented in Germany in 1903 ) for the study of viruses . |
| 11 | Cooper 's method was to give the three groups an inventory of questions dealing with obsessional traits and symptoms ; his results showed that the mean symptom score of the houseproud women fell between those of the normal women and the group of obsessional patients . |
| 12 | It so happened that the very train that ended Mr Cubbage 's life was carrying the delayed mail and in one of the mail bags was a letter from Coleen agreeing to Mr Cubbage 's proposal of marriage and saying that she was coming home to her lover . |
| 13 | Nana 's form was to skip the next two hundred years of Jamaican history and tell Martha how her husband had gone away to work in Panama and never come back , and how Martha 's own father was in America now . |
| 14 | McEwan 's company was bringing the live World Cup feed to New Zealand through Los Angeles and also sold the feed for all 32 games into Canada . |
| 15 | Although Gemmill 's goal was voted the best in the tournament , the sight of a mesmerised Alan Rough watching in disbelief as a Peruvian free kick flew past him into the net will remain one of Argentina 's most bleak moments . |
| 16 | Crapper 's triumph was to invent the pull-chain foolproof flush . |
| 17 | That case also arose out of a motor accident at the time when the infant 's mother was carrying the unborn child . |
| 18 | Robson 's solution was to enhance the judicial process and cultivate the judicial spirit within the administration by developing a rational system of administrative courts . |
| 19 | Black 's office was becoming the common scene of both his and Gina 's despair . |
| 20 | Although the Crown Prosecution Service and Attorney General 's office were adopting the usual caution of lawyers yesterday , there can be no doubt that TODAY 's demand for the Courtney sentence to be re-examined has led to action . |
| 21 | C.C. 's task was to remember the dividing contour between the red and green section on each trial , deciding whether it matched a probe line presented after each display ( for example , in Fig. 2 the probe matches for the upper panel but not the lower panel ) . |
| 22 | The Guandong Army 's task was to guard the leased Liaodong Peninsula and Japanese interests in Manchuria , including the South Manchurian Railway and lands controlled by the Japanese adjacent to it . |
| 23 | Then the child heard a sentence fragment of the form B because … ( e.g. , The cup falls because … ) and presented with two single pictures of A and C. The child 's task was to choose the appropriate picture and complete the sentence . |
| 24 | However , in her experiment , the children 's task was to match the linguistic expressions of intention with pictures which were designed to depict intentions . |
| 25 | The founders ' concern was to reverse the popular view of computers as a threat rather than a benefit to the peoples of the world . |