Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [that] " in BNC.
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| 31 | One of his dicta was that all the forts had three periods . |
| 32 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 33 | My first reaction to the resignations was that they were tantamount to an admission of guilt when , in fact , the Argentinians could have attacked at any time in the previous fifteen years . |
| 34 | The consequence of having such large schools with small protestant catchment areas was that those funded from the state had to make up numbers by accepting non-protestants . |
| 35 | The worry , though , for the visitors was that they had created much without converting chances into goals . |
| 36 | It was argued that the pattern in other countries was that laws permitting divorce followed social trends in the numbers of marriage breakdowns rather than vice versa and that the fears of societal breakdown promoted by opponents in Ireland were unfounded in fact . |
| 37 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 38 | One of the arguments for the defendants was that there had been no theft because the plaintiff had agreed to the transaction with the rogue and reliance was placed on Lord Roskill 's statement in Reg. v. Morris , at p. 332 , that appropriation |
| 39 | Dr. Eric Ashby , vice-chancellor of Queens University , Belfast , was named as chairman ; one of his advantages was that he had avoided publicising his personal views on adult education in the past , although he later emerged as a staunch defender of voluntaryism and a critic of those university extra-mural departments which had expanded by lowering standards . |
| 40 | One of the great advantages was that instead of journalists having to plough through yards and yards of dusty cuttings , they could simply call the information they needed to screen . |
| 41 | One of the recommendations to come out of our first extended patrols was that the crews should be allowed air travel to return home for rest days . |
| 42 | Another of my concerns was that Mrs Allen would not bother to cook and eat meals now that she no longer had to prepare anything for her husband . |
| 43 | But one of his biggest concerns was that the changes being ‘ inflicted ’ upon schools would significantly reduce the amount of enjoyment and fun in teaching . |
| 44 | The main drawback of such workings was that by their very nature they were of only limited duration . |
| 45 | The net result of these antagonistic effects was that no significant change in soluble calcium was observed . |
| 46 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 47 | One of the somewhat stranger requirements of companies in enterprise zones was that they would have to provide central government with only minimal statistical information . |
| 48 | The offer from the planners was that his unit would be expanded and that he would afterwards be given a free hand to harry the German supply lines all along the coast . |
| 49 | At least as important as the arguments of the wartime planners was that their schemes emerged into a climate which was receptive to their main conclusions . |
| 50 | The prevailing idea then among Conservatives was that computers were ‘ hi-falutin ’ and ‘ impersonal ’ . |
| 51 | My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did ! |
| 52 | On the principle question in the case , the concensus of the judges was that the authorities against the existance of the defence were irresistable , but perhaps this payed too little regard to the paralell rule for the priviledge of self-defence . |
| 53 | A contributory factor in their campaigns to secure charters was that the peasants who grew the vines around the outskirts of the town found arbitrary and unpredictable seigneurial exactions an intolerable burden on a form of agriculture for which long-term planning was essential . |
| 54 | What elevated Griffith above his fellow technicians was that his sense of what a camera should record and his appreciation that new dimensions of filmic space could be appropriated were given meaning by their constant reference to central themes of American life . |
| 55 | My view was obscured by a pillar and I have n't seen replays yet but the wisdom of the surrounding scousers was that it was a foul . |
| 56 | What one can read between the lines was that Jackie was n't yet a champion , that he knew he was good enough to be one and that the pressures and opportunities to make money were too good to be passed up . |
| 57 | Mr Lilley said the message he had received from local businessmen was that the economic recovery was well underway . |
| 58 | The result of our review [ of funding ] , contrary to my expectations was that we were not under-resourced for Mental Illness Services . |
| 59 | Of course the public only wanted entertainment , but the point for intellectual observers was that the public had only wanted it on their own terms and so the story of film was the story of how the masses had dragged it down to their own level . |
| 60 | Nevertheless , the general conclusion of observers was that the vote , however flawed , was the most free expression of Romanian opinion that was possible under the circumstances , and that the victory of the NSF reflected the wishes of the majority of Romanian voters . |