Example sentences of "was [pron] [noun sg] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gone was my loathing of the Inland Revenue , VAT , all forms of Government , the Law and the Establishment . |
| 2 | ‘ He was my man of the match , ’ said two-goal Goodman . |
| 3 | Kelly had another good match , Strachan was superb , Wallace was my Man of the Match , Deane caused them problems all night , McAllister Speed and batty were good the first half , but Speed especially seemed to drop out of the game in the second half . |
| 4 | Er , and that was my brainwave of the week , basically . |
| 5 | Montrose also appointed a second bailie to hold his courts in the regality of Tarbolton , which was considered too detached from the main body of the duke 's superiorities to be handled by the same judge , and , in addition , the duke was himself bailie of the regality of Glasgow with power to appoint a deputy to act in his place . |
| 6 | Within a few months George Dundas was himself commander of the Lutine , and on 2nd November transferred in this rank to the sloop Calpe , again newly commissioned , and with this record of command his career was firmly established and his subsequent rise rapid , for in this case Keith had made no mistake in patronising a friend . |
| 7 | I only saw one Sunday paper , but he was their Man of the Match ( Whyte getting 6/10 ! ) . |
| 8 | What they did seem in agreement on was their criticism of the university authorities and the government which allowed such actions to go unchallenged . |
| 9 | Opposition to the project became the focus of the resistance to the Communist government and Hungarian Greens claim that it was their mobilisation of the country against the state on this particular issue which led to the regime 's downfall . |
| 10 | It was their equivalent of the Piper Malibu , but entirely constructed of composites . |
| 11 | The real difference between the candidates , however , was their view of the direction in which Lithuania should be turning internationally . |
| 12 | Perhaps of more significance was their estimate of the cost of the rise in unemployment from 1979 to 1985 : they estimated that if the figure had remained at the 1979 level , the cost to the Exchequer in 1984–85 would only have been £7.5 bn . |
| 13 | An important reason for this was their eschewal of the conventional ‘ straight ’ man , two-dimensional and irritable . |
| 14 | So sharp was her sense of the rules having changed that she was shocked to see the name Mary Hunter at the top of the card in the doctor 's hand . |
| 15 | It was not a successful pilgrimage : ‘ the more she wept , the more irked was her man of the company , and the more he tried to go from her and leave her alone ’ . |
| 16 | I have often thought that almost the most foolish act perpetrated by the previous Prime Minister was her sacking of the right hon. Gentleman . |
| 17 | ‘ The Lady Yolande first protested she was unwell from the sea voyage , then it was her time of the month when … ’ |
| 18 | But what was most interesting was her praise of the good characters . |
| 19 | What was her version of the story ? |
| 20 | One of the features by which positivism was characterised earlier was its inclusion of the idea of ‘ pathology ’ : not only was crime seen as obviously wrong , but there was also something wrong with the people who did it — for example , in their biology or personality . |
| 21 | The second defect of the Treaty was its humiliation of the Ottoman Empire . |
| 22 | Equally serious was its neglect of the issue of children 's learning . |
| 23 | The second feature of George Stephen 's narrative which gave it a markedly ideological cast was its distancing of the movement from the kind of radicalism and militant nonconformity of the 1830s and 1840s many of his readers associated with antislavery . |
| 24 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 25 | Was he editor of the local paper ? |
| 26 | I would also have to say that it was he behaviour of the galleries which stands out . |
| 27 | Or was it part of the film ? |
| 28 | Was it part of the burial ground 's unknowable secret ? |
| 29 | One of Karajan 's simplest musico-dramatic experiments was his staging of the Callas Lucia in Milan in 1954 . |
| 30 | The only good sign in his game was his play of the par-threes , two under par for the two rounds . |