Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun prp] was the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the divisor DDR was the two tuple relation of Figure 4.8(d) , then : |
| 2 | Tuesday night 's 2–1 defeat by bottom club Chester was the last straw for the Wigan directors . |
| 3 | Lawyer C was the legal executive/managing clerk who ran the small provincial practice . |
| 4 | Within a year , Boy George was the biggest pop star in the world . |
| 5 | Situated next to the Vincent van Gogh Museum in a lovely building dating from 1925 which is closely reminiscent of the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright , the Museum Overholland was the only museum exclusively devoted to modern works of art on paper . |
| 6 | If she was bearing his child Zoe was the last person she 'd tell . |
| 7 | Myself , I went to the Nashville every night and reckoned that Charlie 's glory in South London was the most he 'd ever get . |
| 8 | Yet in a way it is a simple but effective means of analysing the subject since for much of the postwar period Britain was the leading spokesman for a particular point of view . |
| 9 | For years it was believed that the ‘ fanatic ’ Toscanini conducted everything very fast , though it is an attested fact that his Bayreuth Parsifal was the slowest in the theatre 's history and that his famous Falstaff , not to mention a good deal of his Mozart and Brahms , was unusually broad in its pacing . |
| 10 | there were little birds and the big bird , I was the big bird and my friend Jasmine was the little bird |
| 11 | The Augsburg White Water Rodeo was the biggest canoe stunt boat spectacle in Germany so far . |
| 12 | So , for all you who said that last year 's Contact Day was the best thing DTI and SERC had ever done and could there please be another — this is it ! |
| 13 | Cargo discharged from the vessel Ruth-W was the first handled by the new CCL terminal . |
| 14 | Based on research done at Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre or , PARC as it is widely known , the Apple Lisa was the first commercial micro to take these concepts to the mass market . |
| 15 | He also published a study of colonialism in general which his biographer describes as ‘ si malhabile , si médiocre ’ that he doubts if Nguyen Ai Quoc was the real author . |
| 16 | Nguyen Ai Quoc was the youngest child . |
| 17 | Kofi Baker , 23 , son of drummer Ginger , plays drums and Malcolm Bruce , 22 , whose father Jack was the bass guitarist , plays piano and keyboards . |
| 18 | The disarming of the Palestinian fighters in early July meant that the Shia fundamentalist Hezbollah was the sole group which remained unaffected by the government 's recent actions . |
| 19 | I guess they figured calling their game Arnie was the next best thing to having a blockbusting movie title . |
| 20 | Rod Wallace was the chosen sub . |
| 21 | TEENAGER Kimberly was the brightest thing in the life of widower Bob Mays . |
| 22 | I had other pet lambs , but Nanny Bateson was the first and the best-remembered . |
| 23 | The cruiser Cumberland was the first ship to arrive at Tanjong Priok , the port for Jakarta , on 15 September , five weeks after the republic had been proclaimed . |
| 24 | Until Sunday , of course , when the Crusaders 's 30–0 walloping of First Division Wakefield was the Regal Trophy 's shock result . |
| 25 | Doc Paisley was the first man I ever heard preach to me directly that I was sinner , that God loved me and that Jesus died for me … |
| 26 | The Gairloch discovery by Consolidated Gold Fields in north-west Scotland was the first significant metalliferous ore deposit to be found in the Lewisian of the North-west Foreland . |
| 27 | If Pool Re was the only viable cover offered on the market , this could be regarded as an anti-competitive agreement under article 85 , unless special exemption was obtained form the European Commission . |
| 28 | Islam teaches its adherents that the prophet Mohammed was the last of a long line of prophets who proclaimed the one true God . |
| 29 | I believe the Norwegian explorer Amundsen was the first successful explorer to transit the North West Passage with a 50 tonne fishing boat , taking three years and finally reaching the Pacific in 1906 . |
| 30 | For the next quarter of a century Walsh was the dominating personality in the Irish Catholic Church . |