Example sentences of "[noun prp] was the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Will ye shut up ? ’ from Nellie was the last thing the old couple heard as they watched the cart disappear down the track . |
| 2 | Spencer was the leading advocate of this view on the MFGB executive , persistently advocating greater district autonomy and full membership balloting . |
| 3 | Deciding they had n't spent enough time talking to industrialists ( Marks and Spencer was the favoured analogy ) , she killed it off in 1983 . |
| 4 | Whitsuntide was the traditional time for wearing new clothes and the little girls were all smart in their prettiest dresses , mostly white , with ribbons and flowers in their hair . |
| 5 | Madeleine , however , had insisted he bring along a girl to make up a foursome and Primrose was the only girl available at the last minute . |
| 6 | The sheets seemed as heavy as blankets and Flit was the only thing that prevented the mosquitoes descending on us like vultures . |
| 7 | Portugal was the original target for our fortnight 's holiday at the beginning of September , but Lisbon seemed a bit far , so we settled on Galicia , the north-western tip of Spain , and northern Portugal . |
| 8 | He knew that Marie was the perfect scapegoat . |
| 9 | Rabbani was the sole candidate for the post . |
| 10 | One of the contests on Tuesday was the primary election for Illinois 's next governor . |
| 11 | Tuesday was the last day of uncertainty . |
| 12 | The Reverend S E McCaffrey in an article published in the Circuit Magazine in September 1970 recalls that during his time in Edenderry ( 1928–1932 ) Mr Watson Walker was the oldest Edenderry member . |
| 13 | Left-hander Jimmy Adams was the last man out for a defiant 47 . |
| 14 | The jackal as Wepwawet was the local god of Asyut , but also a god of cemeteries , being associated generally with Anubis and more especially with the cult of Osiris at Abydos . |
| 15 | The evidence that Creevey was the natural son of Lord Molyneux , later first Earl of Sefton , is suggestive but not conclusive . |
| 16 | Standing beside Dennis was the best-looking man she had ever seen in her life . |
| 17 | When Karen and I used to feast on each other 's bodies , Dennis was the unseen guest at the table . |
| 18 | Tour manager Terry Coyle tells me that Texas was the main downer , playing three nights in front of audiences which would look embarrassing even at the Camden Underworld . |
| 19 | ‘ In March a Policy Directions Paper was accepted by the Council.This was the second stage in the process leading to production of the Plan , linking an earlier Issues and Context Report and the draft Plan . ’ |
| 20 | TOP Augsburg was the second stop on Mozart 's progress to Paris with his mother in 1777 . |
| 21 | As chairperson of the National Women 's Council and of the co-ordinating scientific bodies , Elena Ceauşescu was the dominant organizer of the regime 's pro-natalist policies . |
| 22 | 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 … |
| 23 | Paisley was the evangelical preacher , embracing the religious and the political in his two careers and he was backed by the Protestant farmers . |
| 24 | Monument Hill was the last place he wanted to go to , but he knew he had to see it again for himself . |
| 25 | GOBSMACKED Gail Hill was the lucky winner of our Wizard of Oz luxury mini-break holiday in the last issue . |
| 26 | Hill was the third generation of a family of prominent educationalists and social reformers , who had their origins in the radical Unitarian culture of eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Birmingham . |
| 27 | Gloucester MP Douglas French said when Gooding escaped that Coney Hill was the wrong place to keep him . |
| 28 | Peter Dimmock was the genial presenter and a powerful expansionist force in BBC sport , heading a list of commentators which included such familiar names as Harry Carpenter , Kenneth Wolstenholme , Henry Longhurst , John Arlott , Brian Johnston , Peter West , and David Coleman among others . |
| 29 | INCUBUS was the next decade . |
| 30 | Again , as in Straw Dogs , Dustin was the only American in the cast . |