Example sentences of "[art] second was that " in BNC.

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1 The second was that by shadowing the mark outside the ERM , sterling was denied the protection afforded by the combined reserves of the other member countries .
2 The second was that a large group of junk-bond investors — the savings and loan associations — had an extra leg-up into high-yield investment because of federal insurance of their source of cash , deposits .
3 The first was that the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini could , in some sort , be reasonably dealt with ; the second was that a band of rag-tag guerrillas , the Nicaraguan contras , could save the West from Communism .
4 The second was that it was a farm , run by Americans , on which various types of crops were being grown experimentally .
5 The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting .
6 The second was that Winchester had a right of appeal under the Lautro Rules which they had not been afforded the opportunity of exercising .
7 The second was that the son ‘ could be expected to have some influence over his elderly parents , and that is something of which the plaintiffs … should have been aware . ’
8 The second was that this was the very difficult period when , as Dean Acheson said , Britain ‘ had lost an Empire and failed to find a role ’ .
9 The second was that the UK was effectively part of an increasingly competitive world market so that the monopoly power of the merged firms , and the corresponding social cost of the dead-weight burden , would be small .
10 The second was that the economists were complacent about the problem .
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