Example sentences of "main [noun] was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its main provision was that if either party were engaged in war with one other country in East Asia the other party would remain uninvolved , but should two enemies become involved the other party to the alliance would join forces . |
| 2 | The main provision was that he would pay the countess an annuity of 500 marks for her life — an open-ended commitment which in the event did not prove particularly onerous since the countess died soon after Christmas 1475 . |
| 3 | The main provision was that he would pay the countess an annuity of 500 marks for her life — an open-ended commitment which in the event did not prove particularly onerous since the countess died soon after Christmas 1475 . |
| 4 | At first the main change was that he began to give away quite a lot of money , mainly to Worcestershire charities . |
| 5 | The main difficulty was that the tinfoil had to be wrapped round the drum each time it was loaded , and it was almost impossible to replace accurately . |
| 6 | But the main difficulty was that if compensation were paid out on this ‘ once for all ’ basis , ‘ it would be exceedingly difficult for any future government ever to make radical changes in the financial provisions , however badly they were working . |
| 7 | ‘ The main finding was that the children expressed a lot of emotion towards their mother , like hate and distrust and abandonment , ’ Ms Williams told NT |
| 8 | Her main fear was that the court would regard her as an unfit mother because of her sexuality . |
| 9 | The State Department 's main regret was that Britain would not go beyond her " one foot in and one foot out " policy towards Europe . |
| 10 | Its main thrust was that challenges to the order and stability of bourgeois hegemony in the social sphere are then registered as challenges to order and stability , first as content and then as form , in the aesthetic sphere . |
| 11 | The main obstacle was that the only time available for training was late at night . |
| 12 | They found that there was relatively good agreement between reports given on the road and in the laboratory , the main difference was that the total level of report was 21% higher in the laboratory . |
| 13 | Our main inference was that as insectivorous primates radiated within the forest they took to fruit-eating and became diurnal . |
| 14 | His main point was that the marked differences in income and wealth persisted between the social classes throughout the inter-war years had provoked little animus and a remarkably timid response from the working class . |
| 15 | My main point was that the Alvey Committee was proposing to focus R & D resources on a particular type of system based on their guess that intelligent knowledge-based systems were the system of the future . |
| 16 | But his main point was that the English did not settle in Gascony : ‘ no colonial dependency of England ’ , he concluded , ‘ has ever offered a similar parallel , nor , it may safely be said , ever will . |
| 17 | The main point was that the total genetic capacity of a species may increase due to gene duplication . |
| 18 | The main conclusion was that shaft flexibility does not play an important dynamic role in the swing . |
| 19 | Their main conclusion was that |
| 20 | Johnes ' main conclusion was that raising the academic requirements for entry into university may not be the most appropriate method for reducing wastage rates , since the academic ability required to succeed at university is clearly imperfectly reflected by the results of school examinations . |
| 21 | Despite her upper-class background , she cared passionately about marriage and family life and her main theme was that the strength of the nation depended on strong moral precepts being taught in the home , and family life being firmly rooted in the Christian faith . |
| 22 | The scheme did not operate entirely as anticipated : the main departure was that there were some clients for whom the development officers provided no support , either because they were admitted immediately to institutional care ( and the development officers could not always influence this decision in the way they would have liked ) or because the clients did not need or want the services of the project . |
| 23 | Mr Padoa-Schioppa 's main handicap was that he was only number four in the Bank . |
| 24 | The main drawback was that apart from in Switzerland itself nephrite was seldom used in prehistoric Europe . |
| 25 | ‘ The main trouble was that I was sick with worry before tests and my feet froze on the pedals , ’ she said . |
| 26 | The main complaint was that the whole thing was a fraud , which could be proved because , as everyone knew … leprechauns canna write ! |
| 27 | The main complaint was that Microsoft offered large discounts to PC makers who agreed to pay for a copy of MS-DOS or Windows for every machine they sold , whether or not it was actually loaded with one . |
| 28 | His main argument was that Gothic , having been used for nineteenth-century churches , should now be considered as the basis of all building types , particularly domestic , although commercial and public buildings were considered . |
| 29 | Well , the main theory was that she fell into the river on one of her walks . |
| 30 | His main concern was that the National government had not sufficiently registered the fact that if Spain fell into fascist hands France would then be surrounded by fascist powers — Germany , Italy and Spain . |