Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The catalyst for change was the so-called ‘ Agreement ’ signed between the Government and the Stock Exchange in 1983 . |
| 2 | It decided that the criterion for liability for damage was the reasonable foreseeability of the injury . |
| 3 | Thus the portion of the site that was chosen for clearance was the upper half of the southerly track together with the base area of the former engine house . |
| 4 | The first party to campaign for independence was the National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons ( NCNC ) founded by Dr Namdi Azikiwe in 1945 . |
| 5 | Observers of inner-city youth noted that along with smoking and clothes , talking about sport was the main amusement of lads on the street-corner . |
| 6 | The age of hair was the first ⅗ of the 70s . |
| 7 | The reasons are simple : Quisling , a former army officer , diplomat , and minister of defence was the first of his kind ; and his bid for power , though his own idea , by coinciding with the German takeover was assumed to be part of it . |
| 8 | Normally they were military officers , partly because the army provided a supply of trained talent , partly because they were likely to pay attention to orders from London , and mainly because the organization of defence was the crucial part of their work . |
| 9 | The Commissariat of Agriculture was the key element within Pomgol . |
| 10 | If the contractual measure of damage was the only measure to be applied the Vendor could argue that the value of the Business was not necessarily reduced by the full amount of the undisclosed liability . |
| 11 | I suggested earlier that one element in the construction of physics was the useful/useless duality . |
| 12 | Er and of course was the old station master 's er house . |
| 13 | Yesterday 's rally by veterans angered at the way the once mighty army has fallen from its position of esteem was the biggest seen in Moscow for several months . |
| 14 | Another new source of income was the contributory schemes , the largest being the Hospital Saving Association . |
| 15 | A kind of auto-differentiation was the normal pattern . |
| 16 | She decided a straightforward chat over a cup of tea was the neat move . |
| 17 | The third category for the purposes of review was the High Court . |
| 18 | Another source of opposition was the Nepalese-dominated People 's Forum for Human Rights , established in 1989 . |
| 19 | His air of innocence was the last straw . |
| 20 | A perceived lack of response may have been a factor in the withdrawal of these patients , but deterioration of eczema was the principal reason for withdrawal in only 8 patients , 7 of whom were assessed at least once on treatment . |
| 21 | His sense of isolation was the chief suffering of his life in Cambridge . |
| 22 | The soft shade of coral was the perfect finishing touch . |
| 23 | I played off seven at my best — politics left me little time for practice , but lack of concentration was the real problem . |
| 24 | For many years , the Peruvian catch of anchoveta was the largest volume fishery in the world , peaking in 1970 at 12.28 million tonnes . |
| 25 | A Colour Atlas of AIDS was the first book of its kind : written by a team of physicians at the forefront of AIDS research in Britain it comprehensively described in words and outstanding colour photography all aspects of this pandemic disease from epidemiology to transmission and prevention . |
| 26 | She was miserably sick into her best monogrammed towel , and although this made the sharpness of the headache diminish for the moment Belinda was convinced that the diagnosis of toxaemia was the correct one . |
| 27 | Her medal of honour was the first awarded to a member of the administrative staff . |
| 28 | The case of Malcolm Fairley , known as ‘ The Fox ’ , was the most widely reported court case of the year where the offence of rape was the main charge . |
| 29 | Central to much of this new wave of work was the increased attention that was paid to political parties and interest groups . |
| 30 | The longest period of peace was the twenty-six years between the end of the War of Spanish Succession in 1713 and the outbreak of that of the Austrian Succession in 1739 . |