Example sentences of "[noun pl] was the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there seems little reason to doubt the conclusions of a number of pre-revolutionary and Soviet historians that the enhanced rate of peasant flight to Siberia in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries was the direct result of the increasing burdens of the serf-owning economy and of Peter 's oppressive fiscal policies , military recruitment , foreign wars and religious persecution . |
| 2 | A slight tightening about DeVore 's eyes was the only sign that he was interested , but none of the others in the room noticed it , nor the way he rubbed at his wrist , as if relieving an itch there ; they were watching Mach , horrified by this new development . |
| 3 | An important feature of the scheme in its creator 's eyes was the relative index . |
| 4 | Guaranteeing the security of the acute units was the major preoccupation of managers , who were realistic about the competition they faced in maintaining " market share " once resident- based funding was introduced . |
| 5 | Among the signals was the dramatic distress call ‘ Sinking wants immediate assistance ’ ( sic ) sent by the Titanic to the Baltic , which had earlier warned of icebergs in the area . |
| 6 | He did not win : the executive in charge of setting up the European offices was the dynamic ex-sheriff of Caribou , Idaho , named William Swift Daliba , who could toss a silver dollar in the air and plug it with his six-gun . |
| 7 | It is probable that winning that nomination against three candidates was the hardest election of her life , until perhaps losing her seat two decades later . |
| 8 | Riding winners was the only way he knew how to re-establish his self-worth , let alone his public esteem . |
| 9 | Across the centre of the Cages was the fallen branch . |
| 10 | However the picture is not absolutely clear , as will be obvious from Figure 6.8 , since some of the ellipses are rather large and some overlap : without additional information it would not be possible to say which of the pair ( or more ) of overlapping quarries was the true source . |
| 11 | Paranoid hatred of the Jews was the dominant strain , though the two themes fused in Hitler 's mind in the vision of Jew-infested Bolshevik Russia , ripe for German expansion . |
| 12 | For NL members shooting the Jews was the favoured solution , although on one occasion Wright suggested they should be destroyed painlessly and Chesterton wanted them strung up on lamp-posts . |
| 13 | It was immediately apparent that the main challenge to the ingenuity of the designers was the considerable width of the building , which , at 20m ( 66ft ) , was more than double the dimension usually found in residential buildings . |
| 14 | Of particular importance to his designs was the great variety of individual spires , steeples , and towers which he employed ; again , while some of these , such as at St Vedast , Foster Lane , and St James , Garlickhithe , echoed the earlier English Gothic style , others were classical in influence . |
| 15 | Yeah , the nearest shops was the Old Town |
| 16 | The building which housed most of the inquiry sessions was the former chapel of a twelfth-century priory , with a domed glass cupola , ornate floral decorations and tall niches which no doubt once held classical statues . |
| 17 | ‘ That packet of cherries was the only decoration I had on hand . |
| 18 | He had the shamelessly sensuous look of a man for whom being saved from his sins was the last thing on his mind . |
| 19 | A £6,000 fine for VAT arrears was the last straw . |
| 20 | But whatever their short-comings , Positive Images was the only group of people who were prepared to speak out and take action in the face of this backlash . |
| 21 | At the time , the only technology available to store large numbers of high quality images was the analogue videodisc . |
| 22 | If a carer moves into a rented house to care for someone the right to succeed to the tenancy on the death of the tenant is lost ( Schedule 6 para 3 ) unless the care has lasted at least 5 years ( formerly 6 months was the qualifying period ) . |
| 23 | Most frustrating of all for the Puritan reformers was the consistent failure of the justices of the peace to prosecute vigorously those who transgressed the new moral legislation of the Interregnum period . |
| 24 | While in that capacity he devised an ingenious method of casting railway chairs , and also designed the wrought-iron roof of the New Street Station in Birmingham , which with a span of 211 feet was the largest iron roof at the time of its completion . |
| 25 | The ministry fixed a cut-off point of eight feet above the known flood-level in all valleys except tidal areas , where five feet was the magic measurement . |
| 26 | Wednesdays was the only day ex-inmates were allowed to visit friends in prison . |
| 27 | An indication of Iran 's increasing alignment with East European countries was the large-scale trade agreement reached with the Soviet Union during Rafsanjani 's visit to that country in June 1989 [ see p. 36725 ] . |
| 28 | Allegedly , I read somewhere that the killing of native American Indians was the biggest genocide in world history . |
| 29 | Stretched out against the nets was the solidifying form of a ghost . |
| 30 | A central source of disagreement between the Israelis and the Arabs was the complex issue of Palestinian representation at the proposed conference . |