Example sentences of "was [art] [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was the fifth or the sixth of |
| 2 | So well known was the latter that the Department of Health and Social Security lists the elderly among patients ‘ who may be at increased risk ’ . |
| 3 | That 's why Nicholson 's character had to die ; he was the innocent and the only reason he was killed was because he was with two undesirable characters . |
| 4 | It was the 1960s before the bishops began to distance themselves from direct relationships with the government of the day . |
| 5 | There was the 9.15 and the 10.07 , and the midnight train that sometimes woke them from their dreams . |
| 6 | Britain 's jobless rate edged down to 5.6% in February , but the fall was the smallest since the present decline began in 1986 . |
| 7 | It was the smallest and the most remote of the four western oases . |
| 8 | The last decade of the struggle was the 1680s and the period is known as ‘ The Killing Times ’ . |
| 9 | With the exception of the war years , last year was the first since the Labour Government of the 1920s in which no new starts were made on council dwellings in Wakefield . |
| 10 | The impending general election was the first since the launch of the opposition Democratic Party of the Left ( PDS — formerly the Communist Party ) [ see p. 37785-86 ] , the consequent foundation of the Communist Refoundation Party ( PRC ) [ see p. 38689 ] , and the rise of a number of regional autonomy parties [ see p. 38021 ] which had scored important successes in local elections . |
| 11 | The meeting of the chiefs of staff committee in Moscow was the first since the agreement on the structure of the CIS high command , which had been concluded by heads of state at their Moscow summit meeting on July 6 [ see pp. 39017-18 ] . |
| 12 | This was the first that the community of professional scientists had heard about it , and it caused the pair much trouble during the subsequent months as it became clear that several of the claims were wrong . |
| 13 | Although the day-to-day arrangements in Birmingham were similar to those in London , a brief account of the details is useful because Birmingham was the first and the largest provincial area to operate a scheme independently of the Board of Trade . |
| 14 | Published by order of the general meeting of subscribers to the College , London , 1801 , Smith described it as ‘ … a very poor product for seven years ’ work : it was the first and the last' . |
| 15 | I had other pet lambs , but Nanny Bateson was the first and the best-remembered . |
| 16 | In the earlier years , however , it was the first and the third that he most tended to emphasise — the otherness of God , and the impossibility of climbing up to true knowledge of him by our own efforts — so that even today his thought is widely interpreted as essentially negative , as circling ever around God 's ‘ No ! ’ to human presumption . |
| 17 | Thus , in part , a causal circumstance is such that if it occurred , then even if there also occurred any change logically consistent with it and its effect , the effect occurred — or , it was the first and the effect was the last of a sequence of things such that the given connection obtained between each thing and its successor . |
| 18 | And he was the first and the only Republican or Democratic candidate to propose an international minimum wage . |
| 19 | Believe it or not — his was the 15th or the 18th of January too . ) |
| 20 | He took the stairs slowly , trying to remember if it was the third or the fourth step from the bottom that creaked when you put your weight on it . |
| 21 | It was the 1730s before the government stumped up compensation for those whose houses had been damaged or destroyed and among them was one James Sharp , ancestor of Jane , my great-grandmother , whom I still remember being taken to visit as a child . |
| 22 | Subsequent Cabinet and Service Department screening in Whitehall reduced the figure to £4,700 million which was the most that the Treasury believed the economy could bear without being put on to a war footing . |
| 23 | After all , it was the British and the Russians who had dominated Iran through the nineteenth and much of the twentieth centuries . |
| 24 | The apex of military command was the same as the apex of the civilian structure . |
| 25 | At 3.8 per cent of the total population of Northern Ireland , this was the same as the 1961 percentage ; it compared with a modest increase of o.86 per cent in the three counties east of the Bann ( Antrim , Armagh and Down ) and a small decline of 0.23 per cent west of the Bann ( counties Derry , Tyrone and Fermanagh ) . |
| 26 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 27 | ‘ They just assumed my house was the same as the rest around here — big and worth a lot of money . |
| 28 | In many ways it was the same as the PJC-2 , using the same wing and control surfaces , but the fuselage was narrower and four inches longer . |
| 29 | The route the Phillips had been asked to consider had already been put to them three times and was the same as the existing one , he said . |
| 30 | Production-wise , The Quatermass Experiment was the same as The Time Machine , save for two small , but significant additions . |