Example sentences of "was the [noun] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the most lethal blow in Thai boxing was the elbow strike to the temple , which is now banned . |
| 2 | If interactionism was the leftist response to the inadequacies and failures of positivism , the new deterrence writers represent much more the response of the right ( although neither category is ideologically homogeneous ) . |
| 3 | There was the field path to Nod , where the grass brushed Paul 's shoulder in high summer and he looked at marguerites and red sorrel at eye-level . |
| 4 | It was the run-up period to a series of local elections , which were being widely viewed as a test of chancellor Kohl 's handling of the unification issue . |
| 5 | OPPOSITE Michael Haydn ( 1737–1806 ) , the younger brother of Joseph Haydn , was the music director to the Archbishop of Salzburg from 1762 and a friend of the Mozarts ; anonymous artist . |
| 6 | ‘ John Bryan was the surrogate father to them during a most impressionable time . |
| 7 | There was the war horse to be thought of : a fine animal might be worth the value of a small lordship or , put differently , in the mid-fifteenth century a charger could cost a French man-at-arms the equivalent of anything from six months ' to two years ' wages . |
| 8 | Nor was the record roster to be spared . |
| 9 | In 1802 the Reverend John Piggot sold the manor , and it passed through Hattons , Agaces , Ferards and Schoolcroft Burtons ; from 1901 until 1920 it was the dower house to the widowed Lady Wantage . |
| 10 | I had £30 in crushed fivers and damp change sitting in my pockets , and all I needed to buy with it was the train ticket to Dover , a toothbrush and some beer . |
| 11 | Illustrated within the report as an example of outstanding customer service was the NARF Award to Stoddard Templeton , voted by 3,000 members of the National Association of Retail Furnishers , for the ‘ best service to retailers . ’ |
| 12 | It was the radio link to Dick in the craft . |
| 13 | Going through the door to the back kitchen you had to take three steps down and immediately to the left was the matchboard door to the garden . |
| 14 | So we were really answerable to the Ipswich Borough Council , rather than to private enterprise which some people really wanted to sell us off as being a , you know , a weight round their necks because if we did n't make a lot of money after the war , the accounts would show that we were making a deficiency every year and erm , well there was no way that you could recoup it because our routes were n't really long enough to charge lots of fares erm , maybe tuppence was the town centre to the extreme termini |