Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 2 | In many ways the achievement of Young and Helmholtz was that they showed , in principle , that colour vision would be possible with only three receptors , providing those receptors were most sensitive to the right colours . |
| 3 | It was a considerable party : 2,000 men in twenty ships , and headed by an intemperate ruffian whose only qualification for replacing Balboa as Governor of Darién was that his wife was the daughter of one of Isabella 's ladies-in-waiting . |
| 4 | It may be that an element in the antipathy of Ecgfrith and his queen , Iurminburh , to Wilfrid was that Wilfrid was not committed enough to Ecgfrith 's family . |
| 5 | ‘ Maybe what upset Dustin was that he knew that , although he was the better actor , Steve 's performance in Papillon was superior , ’ commented Norman Jewison , who had directed McQueen in The Cincinnati Kid and The Thomas Crown Affair , but who never worked with Dustin . |
| 6 | The net result with HM was that staff spent a lot of time asking and cajoling him , but he did not respond or became disturbed , and staff eventually did much of the activity themselves . |
| 7 | In other words , the basic premise behind the establishment of RMCs was that they should be centres of excellence , performing a co-ordinating role for the provision of management education and its development in their regions . |
| 8 | The assumption within the KMT was that the " old men " of the party would disappear by " natural processes " , but the election results suggested that these processes were not rapid enough to appease either the growing sense of Taiwanese nationalism in the country or the related impatience at the slow pace of democratization . |
| 9 | The final punch line from WordPerfect was that enhancements in the new release 5.2 of WordPerfect for Windows invalidated most of Microsoft 's arguments anyway . |
| 10 | The great thing about Angie was that she was always for him . |
| 11 | Initially , the view in the United States was that the refusal had to be based on good grounds — for example , religious beliefs strongly held — but the position now is moving towards the idea that ‘ individual freedom here is guaranteed only if people are given the right to make choices which would generally be regarded as foolish ones ’ . |
| 12 | One of the points taken on behalf of S. was that the notice was invalid because as soon as he was charged the Director 's investigation came to an end , carrying away with it the power to call for information from third parties . |
| 13 | The partnership is not really working , although of course erm what happened on Saturday was that after an awful pasting during the week verbally from Mick their manager , and indeed having both been brought off very controversially at Molyneux last Tuesday evening , both substituted in the closing stages when Notts were losing and both strikers we er were brought off , you could n't get much more controversial tha that by a manager could you ? |
| 14 | His chief importance to Edward was that he was a substantial landowner in Normandy and was at odds with John II over the succession to the counties of Angoulême and Mortain . |
| 15 | Before he had fully conceived the idea of The Four Quartets , he had remarked that what drew him to Beethoven was that in these last works the composer did what he himself had sought to do in poetry — and may have actually done in ‘ forty or fifty lines ’ — namely to ‘ get beyond ’ that art . |
| 16 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 17 | All she knew of Travis was that he despised her and believed her to be a thief . |
| 18 | One of the consequences of sacking Douglas MacArthur was that the U S congress called hearings on television into Truman 's conduct of the Korean war and Truman 's public popularity fell even further . |
| 19 | The other prolonged study of the flora of the Outer Hebrides was that initiated by Miss M. S. Campbell . |
| 20 | What had happened at Great Casterton was that the discovery of a wall in a place where it could not possibly exist , according to my ideas of the site , had set in motion all my mental defences . |
| 21 | The gist of de Lattre 's message in Washington was that if the US would give him the tools , he would finish the job . |
| 22 | One difficulty for Mountbatten was that the Foreign Secretary , Ernest Bevin , took a view of the situation closer to that of Gracey than that of the Supreme Commander : ‘ Bevin is behaving like the worst conservative diehard , ’ wrote Edwina Mountbatten in another context . |
| 23 | The military advice given to Mountbatten was that they should not be armed , but he overruled this and gave his recognition to the AFO . |
| 24 | But the problem with Clairvaux was that although it lay in Poitou a Count of Anjou could claim to hold it . |
| 25 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 26 | From a military point of view , however , the most important immediate consequence of the events at Bleiburg on 15 May was that the entry of the main Croat column into the 5 Corps area had been averted . |
| 27 | In a wider sense , however , the real significance of what had happened at Bleiburg on 15 May was that it was the last major surrender of the European war . |
| 28 | The lesson to be learned from the recent history of England and Normandy was that it was virtually impossible for a daughter to keep a hold on her inheritance . |
| 29 | The irony for England was that had he decided differently he would have been playing for them rather than against them , for his parents had brought him from Barbados at the age of twelve to live in Reading , and he had played for England schoolboys . |
| 30 | Since Malcolm , a local boy , and Small , Barbados-born , each took four wickets , the joke in England was that ‘ our West Indian bowlers are better than your West Indian bowlers ’ . |