Example sentences of "was the [noun] [prep] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The thing I most disliked was the disapproval of the dons because I admitted I would like to write ! ’ |
| 2 | The appellant was the treasurer of a sports and social club ; he stole £4,567 from the club . |
| 3 | But many were still standing after five years of air attack , and although German civilian morale was largely unbroken , it was the psychology behind the attacks which yielded valuable dividends . |
| 4 | He was of Italian stock , as was the proprietor of a blues recording studio I had met in the Deep South of America . |
| 5 | The prime concern for the adjustments was the preservation of the banks and the international financial system . |
| 6 | Sugar was the revenge of the slaves , ravaging the health of the West . |
| 7 | What settled the issue was the rise of the pomeshchiks . |
| 8 | As one wag put it , as it was the opening of the toilets , perhaps they should have invited Lou Macari . |
| 9 | Both continued to develop ; but it was the commemoration of the martyrs that came to swamp the Christian calendar during the fourth century , filling the interstices left in it . |
| 10 | Of immediate concern was the increase in the ranks of the urban poor . |
| 11 | Such was the concern of the Allies to prevent Spain from gravitating further towards the Axis that they were prepared to swallow Franco 's blatant duplicity to achieve that aim . |
| 12 | The most memorable thing about the complex power struggle that had this result was the fate of the losers . |
| 13 | Such was the ferment of the times throughout Europe , and such was the rising volume of political controversy within Britain ( bear in mind also the Suffragette agitation and the conflict over the future of Ireland ) , that a more dramatic tipping of the balance than actually occurred in the next few years might have been expected . |
| 14 | Their internal squabbles , a symptom of this decadence , made them peculiarly vulnerable ; it was the quarrel between the Augustinians and Jesuits that opened the door to the regalist onslaught of the sixties on the privileges of the Church . |
| 15 | Under Tsarist colonialism , it was the privilege of the Russians to belong to the industrial proletariat . |
| 16 | Probably there were never more than eight or ten newcomers at Canterbury among a native community of perhaps thirty or forty Englishmen ; but it was the privilege of the newcomers to command , and of the native monks to exercise their monastic vocation of obedience . |
| 17 | I arranged initially to meet the doctors and once again found myself confronting ‘ the dreaded Grabham ’ , as Barbara Castle described Anthony ( now Sir Anthony ) Grabham , the distinguished surgeon who was the backbone of the doctors ' resistance and the most recalcitrant in reaching any compromise of his firm belief that the state had no concern in directing their destiny . |
| 18 | Perhaps it was too confining for his poetic mind for he said of it , ‘ The only good I ever got from it was the memory of the words ‘ sonus disilientis aquae ’ and the old wall covered with weeds opposite the school windows ’ . |
| 19 | It was the gentleman of the Feathers inn , her kind benefactor . |
| 20 | It was the Twilight of the Hippies . |
| 21 | It was the responsibility of the Justices of the forest to see that the Forest rights of the Crown were not usurped , and for this purpose he made frequent use of sworn inquiries by the foresters and verderers and juries of knights and free men of the neighbourhood . |
| 22 | The general regulation of the Poor Law was the responsibility of the justices at quarter sessions , but under an act of 1691 individual justices sitting out of sessions could overrule the overseers on appeal and order relief to be given . |
| 23 | For instance , it has no brief to propose a change in the law to give women wage parity in agricultural work because , as the Director of the Women 's Office explained , that was the responsibility of the Women 's and Minors ' Section of the Ministry of Labour . |
| 24 | With actors of the calibre of Gerard Kelly ( as Spanky ) , Andy Gray , Alexander Morton and Barbara Rafferty that was never likely , but what was less expected was the ability of the actors in the parts of the younger Slab Boys to rise to heights , to produce the casual , offhand , muscular performances which are the ideal foil for the more reflective playing of their older selves . |
| 25 | The anticipation overcame her fear , and there was fear : the thing which had most made her hesitate was the thought of the deaths of her two friends . |
| 26 | Albert cut it out , snipping around the paragraph that said that her husband was the buyer in the men 's sports-clothes department of the same store , and pinned up the clipping in his room . |
| 27 | Of more immediate importance , as far as the majority of the population was concerned , was the determination of the bishops to control non-monastic sites associated with the cult of the saints . |
| 28 | Among the most dangerous was the Chaplain of the Repubblichini , a Catholic priest whom everybody had suspected for a long time . |
| 29 | Then it was the parting of the ways . |
| 30 | And , but what you were actually spending was the money on the resources . |