Example sentences of "was that [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How such as Donald Judd and Robert Smithson , was that they saw ‘ a false and pious rationality ’ as ‘ the enemy of art ’ . |
| 2 | The only logical conclusion was that they should go to bed . |
| 3 | So it was that they went on to do other things , but separately ; a ‘ beautiful ’ working relationship was thereby broken up , and two highly creative thinkers had their play-writing ambitions stillborn . |
| 4 | But what was striking about the three-year-old 's behaviour here was that they did this for twenty trials . |
| 5 | Mike Ward , the shelter 's manager , said birds covered in oil became waterlogged and were unable to fly , but the biggest danger was that they could be poisoned . |
| 6 | These courses , designed to provide this information , were over-subscribed and the feedback from those who attended was that they wished they had been available earlier . |
| 7 | The reward for the exersions of these intrepid cyclists was that they raised more than £200 . |
| 8 | Bill 's idea was that they should play it as a ballad instead . |
| 9 | The arrangement was that they were happy for members of the family to come into the business and , in a sense , find their own level . |
| 10 | Where Musgrove and John Hopkins , who put it all together , got lucky was that they chronicled a period of success that may never have been equalled , let alone exceeded , by any British golfer . |
| 11 | At one point the official line was that they were there to restrain the Americans . |
| 12 | Another problem was that they bought too few , regardless of their origin . |
| 13 | Perhaps I discerned something they had in common , but what I saw chiefly was that they were different from me . |
| 14 | The official pronouncement was that they intended to fight fire with fire . |
| 15 | The important thing , though , was that they paid their admission fee before they became totally paralytic and abusive ; that seemed to be all that really mattered . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Although Government could alter the proposals , the presumption was that they would not . |
| 18 | The result was that they received both a big two-year increase and a pay review body which has since been responsible for a further substantial increase in their salaries . |
| 19 | My guess was that they would find their way into the press and would undermine our efforts to settle the health dispute . |
| 20 | The point was that they should be managers who took responsibility for securing the best service to the patient and could be held to account if there was failure . |
| 21 | The trouble was that they got married too young and had too many children . |
| 22 | The thing that worried Nigel most about his son 's affairs was that they made him feel randy . |
| 23 | One of the hazards of the sudden death of infants was that they might be carried off before they had been baptised . |
| 24 | If women could enjoy sex as much as men , as the report affirmed , then the implication was that they always should and those who realized they were not achieving Kinsey 's statistical norm of orgasm soon asked themselves why not ? |
| 25 | What they had begun to realize was that they were getting a rough deal and that no one else would take any notice . |
| 26 | The dignifying characteristic of the professions was that they had their own codes of ethics . |
| 27 | He dwelt on the pondus sacerdotum : the burden of priests , and more particularly of bishops ( and especially of archbishops ) , was that they would be responsible for the souls of kings at the Last Judgement . |
| 28 | The problem was that they had , but they had not come back . |
| 29 | The point he missed was that they did not tax because they did not need to tax ; he despised the Scottish crown for its failure to collect the infamous taille , but this had , after all , been introduced to France only because of the need to finance military expeditions . |
| 30 | The disadvantage was that they were , inevitably , the greatest prizes in the domestic marriage market — and a target for scandal . |