Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | But a view of Co-operation which admitted only those who are thus motivated would make it an exceptional and exclusive creed to which could subscribe only those for whom Co-operation was itself the end and not the means to a better life , to one which enhanced what Dahrendorf calls a man 's life chances . |
| 32 | The financial constraints were initially rather phantom-like ( in the first year , for example , there was prolonged and somewhat inconclusive discussion with the Ministry about the budget and it was not finally authorised until the financial year was over ! ) , but the physical constraints were none the less effective in limiting the industry 's expenditure . |
| 33 | Indeed , when Mt Rowland and Lonrho were themselves the subjects of a DTI inspectors ' report in 1976 , they had no such protection . |
| 34 | The Mayor and his friends were themselves the criminals , hand in glove with the smugglers whose leader Jake was clearly an old ally . |
| 35 | Next door was what the children called ‘ The Beatle Room ’ , a room devoted entirely to psychedelic posters , pictures and other memorabilia of the Sixties ' pop stars . |
| 36 | Soldiering was what the Colonel understood . |
| 37 | In his own Board , Melling was none the less able to pursue an off-peak pricing policy , despite criticism from the other chairmen that he was breaking the common front against Ministry interference on pricing . |
| 38 | The low timbre of his voice was none the less frightening for all its softness . |
| 39 | Alford was none the less made a deputy lieutenant of Sussex in 1627 , his services being considered essential to the defence of the county . |
| 40 | Local peace initiative activities were themselves the targets of violence attacks . |
| 41 | He again argued that cities were themselves the cauldron in which the transition from the old to the new societies was taking place ; and , crucially , cities were themselves actively generating a new way of life . |
| 42 | The most obvious is that he felt it himself : to him his fictions were what the Silmarils were to Fëanor or their ships to the Teleri , ‘ the work of our hearts , whose like we shall not make again' . |
| 43 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 44 | It is easy to exaggerate the impact of a single book although when published in Japanese the book was itself the number one bestseller . |
| 45 | It 's thought the computer he was using to write the book was itself the cause of the fire . |
| 46 | His list was none the less wide-ranging enough to include some handsome illustrated books , as well as the first regular publications of both Alfred , Lord Tennyson [ q.v . ] |
| 47 | Among the issues the Palestinians wanted in their memoranda of understanding was what the Middle East International of Aug. 16 described as " the legal reference point of the conference " in addition to detailed US interpretations of UN Resolutions 242 and 338 and the US position on East Jerusalem . |
| 48 | In some of these cases the defendant appeared mentally normal when examined by the doctor , but the doctor was none the less willing to infer from the circumstances that there had been abnormality of mind at the time of the killing , and to write a report which brought this within section 2 . |
| 49 | Hyannis , Massachusetts-based Fibronics International Inc 's main launch at Cebit was what the company claims is the industry 's most powerful development engine for graphical management of SNMP-based devices . |
| 50 | Nor can he supply goods or services in a substantially different way from those ordered , for example by providing a 1Mb microcomputer when a 10Mb version was what the customer ordered . |
| 51 | Societies of boys were what the public schools essentially remained , with the masters forming no more than a thin crust of adult authority . |
| 52 | What were you took to him Joyce were it the video or television ? |
| 53 | It is as if Ted Hughes were himself the patient , suffering maybe from impotence or castration fears , and was here attempting an autotherapy with Shakespeare as a dummy . |
| 54 | With high land values and the lowest UK unemployment , almost 50 per cent of the very small holdings were what the survey classed as ‘ amenity farming ’ , in which land and buildings are acquired with ‘ a desirable residence and the agricultural activities carried out largely for pleasure ’ . |
| 55 | But while it was certainly true that there were precedents for government policy towards the church in the 1530s , and that earlier monarchs had acted on the assumption that they had no superior within their realm , the Henrician supremacy was none the less unquestionably revolutionary . |
| 56 | A WOMAN who has spent her life caring for others was herself the centre of attention at the weekend . |
| 57 | Yeah I know , the date was it the f |
| 58 | Our first problem was one the water was quite cold and so everyone had to find a wet suit to fit them , which caused a slight problem . |
| 59 | He was sure that the Liberal idea was what the country needed . |
| 60 | What he brought to the Card Trio was what the singers also brought , which is dramatic tension ; and yet its subtlety is such that it does not draw attention to itself , but simply contributes to the dramatic fabric of the whole . |