Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [pron] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This division of labour was itself the product of the growing complexity of the social organism . |
| 2 | The letter of the law was something the Adjutant had learnt in his short army career . |
| 3 | It was n't just that the parents had to be kept under control despite the fact that they and the police were in many respects working at cross purposes , it was the danger of some third party interfering … a go-between with power and influence was what the Captain dreaded most … |
| 4 | These authors also found evidence for hot gas and dark matter extending beyond the visible galaxies , and their work was itself the subject of a News and Views article . |
| 5 | No cause of death is given , but we may make an informed guess , for all that , that a man whose elder brother had been carried off by consumption was himself the victim of that ‘ white plague ’ which accounted for one-third of all deaths in the early years of the 19th century . |
| 6 | ‘ For those who think that this is window dressing , I pause to remind you that not so long ago the Lord Chancellor was himself the subject of judicial review proceedings , ’ he added . |
| 7 | Yet I am so much under the spell of your witchery I might have viewed parson 's mousetrap with a kindly eye were you the bait — and not the false promises with which I am to be lured . |
| 8 | GREEN SHOOTS of recovery were what the Chancellor said he could see last year , but the rest of us are still waiting for them . |
| 9 | And Katherine 's point was what the system today of course is quite different than what and that is of course completely true . |
| 10 | For Simmel ( who was also influential on the Chicago School of Sociology ) the individual or small group was itself the focus of explanation . |
| 11 | The beginning of that evolution is usually dated to the constitution which Solon produced for the city in or around the year 594 BC.Solon 's intervention was itself the outcome of a period of conflict between " the masse and " the notable , according to the account given by Aristotle in The Athenian Constitution . |
| 12 | This took the approach that mother and baby health and welfare was what the women wanted , seeing the woman 's main role in society was as a breeder . |
| 13 | A reference to British Steel was something the punters would relate to , much to the dealers ' amusement . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Getting in first with the patent application was what the university authorities regarded as the top priority . |
| 17 | It 's thought the computer he was using to write the book was itself the cause of the fire . |
| 18 | It is easy to exaggerate the impact of a single book although when published in Japanese the book was itself the number one bestseller . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He was sure that the Liberal idea was what the country needed . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Hope was what the folk of Ulthuan 's many kingdoms desperately needed . |
| 24 | Though pond fidelity was what the researchers were primarily interested in , the marking and measuring of individuals in Dorset did provide an unexpected bonus : the largest toads ever recorded in the UK , a male 85mm long , and a giant female 113mm long , almost 15 per cent larger than the previous record . |
| 25 | Symbolic justice was what the system was supposed to produce in Simi Valley . |
| 26 | The responsibility for drawing the first furrow on a narrow stetch was one the head horseman could not afford to delegate , unless it was to a man equally skilled as himself ; for a stetch that did not come out , at every point , exactly to the inch would render ineffective the use of implements that had been designed specially for it ; again , a botched stetch was visible to all — to the casual passer-by and to the practised eye of his neighbour ; and the ‘ loss of face ’ a head horseman suffered through allowing the standard of his own work to be below that of the next farm 's was enough to make him ensure that every field was laid out and ploughed with as much care as patience and long-practised skill made possible . |