Example sentences of "[conj] [noun sg] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a post-war climate where nationalisation was the key component in the economic sphere , and reorganisation and rationalisation of what already existed the most characteristic feature of social policy , ‘ planning ’ failed to dislodge the established administrative systems or to overcome the temptation to make do with ad hoc measures . |
| 2 | For Leese , the Nordic or Aryan was the sole creator of culture and civilization . |
| 3 | Their general aim has been to recreate a perceived ‘ golden age ’ , to secure a return to a status quo ante , where , they believe , divorce rates were low , children respectful of adult authority and , most importantly , where religion was the binding force , the ‘ social glue ’ which provided moral authority . |
| 4 | Included in this overview have been the campaigns against the Thorsen film and James Kirkup 's poem in Gay News , where blasphemy was the central explicit issue ; Mrs Whitehouse 's criticism of television , in particular the BBC 's supposed bias toward ‘ South Bank ’ theology , and Till Death Us Do Part 's irreverence towards Christianity ; the perceived lack of support for the NVALA from Church leaders . |
| 5 | As its critics feared , the legislation quickly established an area of production where cheapness was the only important criterion , with film being treated as so many yards of celluloid filled with moving figures . |
| 6 | These bounds often show that a particular parish , township , or tithing was the same in the tenth century as in the nineteenth , and we become aware of the remarkable persistence of boundaries . |
| 7 | During the past 60 years , I have lived on islands in the Hebrides where Gaelic was the normal means of communication in church services and in daily life . |
| 8 | It may not be going too far to suggest that Laski was the primary conduit through which early twentieth-century developments in American legal thought were filtered into British public law thought . |
| 9 | In practice , by 1975 , the resistance to this approach proved so great that settlement was the real objective , with the justification that farming families could be supported in every way — agriculturally , medically and educationally — much more effectively on a group basis . |
| 10 | Demoralisation rather than democratisation was the immediate result . |
| 11 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 12 | At an early age , Ybreska had seen through the myth and realized that money was the sole power which kept the Earth turning . |
| 13 | In his chairman 's report for the 1947 season , Rawlins Hawtin recorded the comment made to him , during the match with Surrey at Peterborough , by Herbert Strudwick , who ‘ volunteered his opinion that Fiddling was the best wicketkeeper in England ’ . |
| 14 | I was the first to state that reunification was the best option ( and I quote from an Institute minute ) ‘ provided the RIBA can show that Portland Place can be adapted for the successful functioning of all departments . ’ |
| 15 | This can be justified by the fact that Keynesianism was the accepted dominant macro-intellectual tradition and that in this tradition a key role , if not the key role , is the manipulation of fiscal policy weapons to achieve economy-wide targets . |
| 16 | Years later Simenon put La Caque into a Maigret novel , characterising its members as so jaded by drink , sex and drugs that murder was the obvious next step . |
| 17 | The only objective sense in which monetarism worked better than Keynesianism was the electoral one : the ‘ strong bargainers in all classes ’ were content for the economy to run at well below capacity . |
| 18 | If , on the other hand , one accepts Tyacke 's argument that predestination was the one mainstream belief down to 1625 , the Arminians were responsible for an unprecedented attack on a well-established orthodoxy , and their activities accordingly met with great hostility and resistance . |
| 19 | Jason was quite firm that marriage was the last thing he wanted . |
| 20 | The case of street robbery is particularly interesting , because this is commonly the most sensitive area for registering public concern about crime and violence , itself reflected in the fact that robbery-with-violence was the only common offence for which an adult offender could be sentenced to whipping before the abolition of corporal punishment in 1948 . |
| 21 | But he made the studio ( which he used for twenty years ) simple and plain , matching a portrait style in which , in his own words , ‘ character rather than flattery was the dominant note . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that diesel was the right decision for us , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Thus Weber claimed to show that Calvinism was the independent variable that was present in Europe and absent in China and India , and was one of the important causes of the appearance of the dependent variable of capitalism . |
| 24 | However , this was not due to any genuine belief in pacifism ; Franco , after all , believed that war was the normal human condition . |
| 25 | Where flows are heavy , segregation would be the norm ; elsewhere integration with vehicular traffic in calmed areas would be perfectly acceptable , provided that safety was the principal criterion and that directness of route was in no way compromised . |
| 26 | The body and neck of the Diggins are made from Brazilian mahogany , unlike the John Birch which was made entirely from much heavier maple ( Birch insisted that maple was the only timber for guitar building ) . |
| 27 | In their 1968 study of the frequency of use of British scientific journals , as measured by requests to the British Library , Martyn & Gilchrist found that Nature was the highest ranked journal , and the highest ranked earth science journal was Journal of Petrology ( ranking one hundred and fifteenth ) . |
| 28 | They did not even try to make their horses do what they wanted by the ordinary or commonplace methods of these days ; they believed that punishment was the best method of education , and this style of ‘ horsemanship ’ persisted into the seventeenth century and beyond . |
| 29 | This meant that farming was the likeliest occupation for RCM boys , even though they mostly came from urban professional and commercial backgrounds and had a positive aversion to rural life . |
| 30 | The timber bracing was built into stone and rubble walls as well , as can be seen at many points round the Knossos Labyrinth , so it seems likely that earthquake-resistance was the likely purpose . |