Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [adv] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Brigade was probably the first youth group to emphasize the specific nature of ‘ boyhood ’ and to develop a programme and a philosophy designed for this stage of life . |
| 2 | Peter Jenkins , a seasoned political observer , writing in The Independent on 14 November , captured the mood among Conservatives with the comment that the speech polarised the forces for and against Mrs Thatcher to the extent that a contest was now the only way of resolving the divisions . |
| 3 | Last year in the USA , AIDS cases in women were nearly 10pc higher than a year ago , and AIDS was now the leading cause of death in nine leading US cities for women of childbearing age . |
| 4 | But murder was not the right term . |
| 5 | The club was just the right kind of venue for them to cut their professional teeth on , and she was glad to give them the opportunity . |
| 6 | One reason for organising the 5 October 1968 march in Derry was that NICRA had always considered the city to be a natural focus for its attempts to raise the question of civil rights , but the demonstration was not the first attempt to organise around the issue in Derry . |
| 7 | Even if we confine ourselves for the moment to the late sixth and fifth centuries B.C. , when the options were more limited , the road of the Rhone was not the only route for traffic between Celts and Greeks . |
| 8 | Assertion of Japanese ownership of the Ryúkyús was not the only reason for this expedition . |
| 9 | The drop-goal attempt was surely the best option ; Chalmers had already just popped one over . |
| 10 | And what happened in practice was simply the Turkish government made representations to the State Department and said hey , you know , these bases , they provide a lot of work , you know , we have to provide empl alternative employment for these people so could we phase out this withdrawal over say a three year programme ? |
| 11 | The car was exactly the same model as his mother 's . |
| 12 | Direct rule was not the only way Europeans exercised political power overseas . |
| 13 | Although we believe that all birds and bats must have a common ancestor if we trace their lineages back far enough , that common ancestor was also the common ancestor of all mammals ( including ourselves ) and all birds . |
| 14 | A boat was not the best place for the kind of romance Aveling preferred . |
| 15 | Decolonization was thus the decisive route to proletarian revolution in Europe . |
| 16 | Throughout the years when he was living in London , Le Queux , together with his friend George R. Sims [ q.v. ] , attended every murder trial of note , but crime was not the only interest that attracted his attention . |
| 17 | Such an open display of adultery was suddenly the fashionable sport among cavalrymen , but it could too easily turn into a blood sport and the Duchess feared for Lord John 's life . |
| 18 | Although newsprint ( the other major cost ) had doubled during 1972 — 5 , the Press Commission of the mid-1970s found labour was still the largest cost , at 40 — 50 per cent . |
| 19 | Ragworm was again the successful bait fished over the extensive lugworm beds at Evening Hill . |
| 20 | That talent was presumably the main reason for his appointment , and that 's only right and proper because if there 's one thing England can learn from Bob Dwyer , it is that you sometimes have to be prepared to let a young side lose in the short-term to gain in the long-term . |
| 21 | She was supposed to be very , very quiet , she had to , I think complete submission was really the key point of women in the eighteen-forties . |
| 22 | Martyrdom was indeed the new value of the age . |
| 23 | He never dreamt that we would go to witness the execution or , even if we did , would get close enough to realise the man being burnt at the stake was not the same person we 'd questioned at Newgate . |
| 24 | So law was never the exclusive possession of the ruling class ; rather it provided ‘ an arena for class struggle , within which alternative notions of law were fought out ’ ( Thompson , 1979 : 299 ) . |
| 25 | But for Wardlaw and other dissenters marriage was also the perfect compact between men and women ‘ by which they engage in mutual love and friendship for the purpose of procreation ’ . |
| 26 | She did n't try overhard , she just wanted to let me know I was secure with her , that the break-up of my parents ' marriage was n't the worst thing that ever happened , and that she had enough love to cover us all . |
| 27 | Indeed , withdrawal was undoubtedly the main method by which the decline in working class fertility was achieved , and it continued to be as common a method of birth control as the sheath in post-World War II Britain . |
| 28 | ‘ I hear the constable was down the other day , if you do n't mind me saying so , ’ Mrs Clamp said , and coughed politely . |
| 29 | The shell used for this decorative work was probably the oyster-like Spondylus gaederopus , which is native to the Aegean . |
| 30 | The Masterpiece , a collection of folklore about the body and its functions , was probably the single most popular source of information on sex relations and childbirth , and the continuing publication of this work was possibly the last remnant of a much stronger popular demand and usage that began to grow in the nineteenth century with increasing literate audiences demanding knowledge . |