Example sentences of "was the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are those who argue that it was the desperate attempts made by the Soviets in the last decade and a half to match the US , especially in Star Wars research and development , which brought about the economic collapse that dismantled the communist monolith . |
| 2 | It was the unreconstructed Communists who continued in charge . |
| 3 | When the syllabus was referred to , it was the content objectives to which everyone referred ; the process objectives were for the most part ignored . |
| 4 | This was the 9th championships at Little Wittenham . |
| 5 | As far as the actual steps are concerned I say the on the on the one that you missed out was the tentative benefits statement , that got lost out because of erm tt the red herring that he threw in about why so long , but it do you know it does highlight that we 've got ta try and get back on to it but oth you know , there was a lot of good things in it . |
| 6 | If ‘ Fred ’ was the lowest strata of my well of strength , others come in rapid succession . |
| 7 | The only unusual occurrence was the vast numbers of vehicles converging on the football stadium producing an engine-idling , stopping and starting , traffic jam . |
| 8 | The final step was the Ephialtic reforms . |
| 9 | The internal limits derived from the " nature " and " character " of the sovereign , but it was the external limits that were seen as of especial significance in the context of a democratic polity . |
| 10 | My own favourite , putting price aside , was the Western Systems , but if you want value for money then the Phoenix is well worth a look . |
| 11 | It was the dark Raybans that made it impossible to tell what he was thinking . |
| 12 | It was the outside authorities who asked too much . |
| 13 | On present evidence it appears that Classical Greek craftsmen were the first to employ enamel , but that it was the Byzantine Greeks who carried the craft to a new level of accomplishment in the service of the imperial court and the rituals of eastern Christianity . |
| 14 | But they were unsystematic and not sustained , and form only a minor qualification to the general proposition : it was the concerted efforts of Barbarossa in the 1150s and 1160s which first seriously checked the spirit of independent prosperity . |
| 15 | As they stood shining their torches down on the twisted bits of metal , they saw it was the mangled remains of a Uzi . |
| 16 | All she was able to see from the back of the truck was the rounded outlines of scattered Nissen huts and , on the dark horizon , tall , wedge-shaped buildings hung with dim blue lights . |
| 17 | It was the committed Christians who were , in the main , sympathetic , and the dedicated atheists who thought it ‘ in rather poor taste ’ . |
| 18 | But it was the moral pretensions of Dulles and his policies which lost most credibility . |
| 19 | It reminds me of the time I went to a school in Clevedon to interview one of the masters , David Bryant , who was the greatest bowls player in the world and a star in his own right . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was the Thirty Years Peace of 446 ; or perhaps there was a special arrangement with Aigina , who may have had her autonomy guaranteed individually , though she certainly paid tribute to Athens . |
| 21 | Indeed , claim Thatcherites , it was the Blue Chips who plotted her downfall in November 1990 . |
| 22 | The longest period of peace was the twenty-six years between the end of the War of Spanish Succession in 1713 and the outbreak of that of the Austrian Succession in 1739 . |
| 23 | A prominent feature was the surviving aggregates of endocrine cells marking the former position of glandular bases where colonic crypts had been destroyed ( Fig 2B ) , a feature characteristically seen in graft v host disease . |
| 24 | Possibly the first Inn was the Five Bells , which was probably the ale house mentioned in 1586 , when William Cokar of Halling was sent to gaol for keeping an ale house and allowing gambling i.e. maintaining play at the dice of his own authority as a result of which he was bound , over to the next Sessions . |
| 25 | All you seemed to need was the right ingredients and a competent chemist . |
| 26 | She 's not really quite sure why but she knew that was the way and it was , it was the right , was the right things to go for . |
| 27 | And it was the long shorts that allowed him to wear waist-to-ankle underpants during a game without anyone noticing . |
| 28 | She knew that although the shop stocked a few overalls and smocks and even some children 's clothes and sheepskin jackets , it was the long dresses with their wonderfully romantic feel and yards of material in the skirts , that the cognoscenti came to buy . |
| 29 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 30 | It was the woollen weavers who were most alarmed , fearing that the proposed reduction of import duties on French wines to the same level as those on Portuguese wines would provoke the Portuguese to lay a high duty on English woollen goods , or even prohibit their import altogether , which would be the " Utter Ruin of that Trade " . |