Example sentences of "was the [noun sg] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Was the build-up to the first ‘ test ’ too gentle ? |
| 2 | A much earlier development than the biblical canon was the evolution of the threefold ministry of bishop , presbyter , and deacon . |
| 3 | The price the French exacted for their support was the deployment of the Castilian fleet against England . |
| 4 | Ten years ago London was the despair of the Labour movement . |
| 5 | His was the philosophy of the ambitious , the productive , the creative , which he saw as undermined by society 's capitulation to the idle , the parasitical , the degenerate . |
| 6 | The biggest PJ victory was the governorship of the key province of Buenos Aires , containing 7,600,000 voters ( approximately 50 per cent of the total electorate ) . |
| 7 | A comment on the source might extend to whether or not the data are routinely collected and , if not , what was the motivation behind the particular study . |
| 8 | The result was the rationalisation of the industrial structure , which Professor G.C. Allen has summed up : ‘ The chief effect of government intervention between the wars was to defend the failures rather than to encourage the enterprising ’ . |
| 9 | Mr Osborne was the proprietor of the largest of the fifteen woollen mills which wound their wheels in Ozleworth Brook in the valley below . |
| 10 | The early studies ( such as those of Lounsbury , 1954 and Goldman-Eisler , 1958 ) were based on probabilistic models of language , in which the major concern was the predictability of the next word from the word or words which had gone before . |
| 11 | What was the surname of the Tory mother and son who were both elected to Parliament in 1983 ? |
| 12 | The alternative , if any senior ministers wished to resign , was the resignation of the whole Cabinet . |
| 13 | But the high-point of his batting was the double-century in the Old Trafford Test . |
| 14 | The nearest she could recall was the booming of the big 'gators in the Florida swamps where she had once been trained . |
| 15 | Essentially its cost was the ravaging of the coal-bearing district of County Durham . |
| 16 | That was the descent of the Oued Nfis , the magic link between Tichka Plateau and Jbel Toubkal . |
| 17 | When Diana gave the false name to secretaries in phone calls to the London offices of Wright , Son and Pepper they had no idea it was the princess on the other end of the line . |
| 18 | The second development was the readoption of the ZOPFAN idea by the Non-Aligned Movement . |
| 19 | The Third Labour was the capture of the wild Keryneian Hind with golden antlers . |
| 20 | It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below . |
| 21 | Beyond was the edge of the ever-present forest . |
| 22 | The other important innovation was the rise of the professional opinion research agency offering its services and expertise in opinion polling . |
| 23 | Then there was the ball in the own net at Anfield fiasco . |
| 24 | A futher highlight was the opening of the first Eagle Lodges : Wexford House near Melton Mowbray and Woodford in Southport . |
| 25 | The next major event in Blackpool which called for illuminated cars , was the opening of the new Promenade in 1905 . |
| 26 | One of the most exciting events in provincial theatre since the war was the opening of the new Nottingham Playhouse in December 1963 . |
| 27 | That was the opening of the following evening , the evening to be faced . |
| 28 | This early manifestation of a Yugoslav cultural movement lay dormant until the late eighteenth century , when , during the reign of Joseph II ( 1780–90 ) , the apostle of the Enlightenment , there was the reawakening of the national cultures of the Slavs within the Empire . |
| 29 | For the reality behind the 1958 conflict was the reawakening of the old dispute between pro-Arab nationalism and pro-Western Maronitisme , the same antagonism which had emerged in 1920 when the French created Lebanon . |
| 30 | The conceptual basis of the CKR was the conveyance to the secured party of the seller 's right to control the goods while in transit . |