Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Woodcote Lane for centuries was part of the main Wallingford Road . |
| 2 | The monitoring of political dissidents was routine during the 1960s ( Brodeur , 1983 ) . |
| 3 | The presence or absence of station dwellers was part of the social tone of stations throughout the world . |
| 4 | Catholics were rebels who only wanted to destroy not only Northern Ireland but also the Protestant nature of the rest of the British Isles and the only thing which maintained civil liberties was adherence to the Protestant faith . |
| 5 | In Weymouth , one of the casualties was the Toc H building , which amongst other things was home to the local deaf club . |
| 6 | The sight of his daughters in sleeveless dresses was relief from the lonely tedium of the work . |
| 7 | The payment of means-tested benefits to the families of strikers was part of the poor law system from the end of the nineteenth century , but it was not until after the National Assistance Act , 1948 , that the conditions for the payment as well as the level of the benefit were improved . |
| 8 | A live match on Mondays was part of the Premier League 's plans because of the success in the United States of the televised NFL American football game . |
| 9 | Public-sector spending and employment were themselves heavily and deliberately constrained by the Conservative policy of ‘ rolling back the frontiers of the state ’ , which to many trade-unionists was part of the same process as de-industrialization . |