Example sentences of "was the [noun sg] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Civilizer was the verb the French colonialists used for their depredations in West Africa . |
| 2 | What really provoked my interest was the publication the following week of two purported solutions . |
| 3 | I just , I just felt that it was the cream the other night , and then I just felt oh , you |
| 4 | Outstanding among these was the Help the Aged 's Retirement Garden — a small garden for a retired couple who are both keen gardeners : the designer was Robin Templar Williams . |
| 5 | The house was called Gibbet Hall ; not because this was the name the Swift family had chosen but because a long time ago enemy prisoners had been tied to the tree outside the front gate and threatened with hanging . |
| 6 | Was the man the last Minoan king or the last Minoan high-priest of Knossos ? |
| 7 | Nor was the Act the only important educational publication of the year . |
| 8 | In preparing the reform and reconstruction of Japanese institutions , there was a conviction that ‘ what went wrong ’ in the 1930s was the way the traditional commitment of the Japanese to a group identity had been diverted all too easily into collective militaristic nationalism . |
| 9 | THE most baffling thing about the weekend 's Smash Hits Poll Winners Party was the way the best and the worst in categories crossed over . |
| 10 | Nothing would weigh more heavily with many Tories than the thought that what above all had led them to throw away the 1992 election was the way the positive values and achievements of the Thatcher years had been allowed , through loss of nerve , to be obscured . |
| 11 | Perhaps it was the way the translucent ‘ grass ’ seemed to develop an immediate and lasting attachment to anything or anyone that walked across it . |
| 12 | It was the sound the little girl made . |
| 13 | And there was the shout the other day , as well . ’ |
| 14 | This was the policy the British intended to pursue at Chicago , much to US chagrin . |
| 15 | This was the status the Mighty Minogue was now enjoying in the Land of the Rising Sun . |
| 16 | There 's people out they was in , it was the paper the other day about about the da , about the arresting people . |
| 17 | This was the stage the Nicaraguan people had reached before the Sandinista revolution in 1979 . |