Example sentences of "[noun pl] was that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 2 | I think he was n't much of a horseman , perhaps had n't been in the regiment very long ; and the great achievement in his eyes was that he had managed to do that long and difficult gallop without falling off . |
| 3 | But her value in his eyes was that she was his son 's future bride , through whom he would control Scotland ; he did not envisage her doing so herself as an individual monarch , and the secret agreements she made just before her marriage show how far she agreed with him . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ The word from Manchester United fans was that we could do them a big favour , and we 've undoubtedly done them one , but I got the impression that our own fans would not have been too bothered if we 'd lost today . ’ |
| 5 | His primary objection to the lists was that they were patronising to teachers . |
| 6 | The only good news for drivers was that there will be no snow . |
| 7 | ‘ One of the attractions was that he does n't jump out of cars shouting freeze . |
| 8 | My objection to his high heels was that he would do himself a mischief if he had to bale out ! |
| 9 | But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The worry , though , for the visitors was that they had created much without converting chances into goals . |
| 13 | Of course the main thing about the shoes was that I had to wear them all the time . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The result of our review [ of funding ] , contrary to my expectations was that we were not under-resourced for Mental Illness Services . |
| 23 | No , what he did n't like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk . |
| 24 | Indeed , a common complaint in their early days was that they caused unemployment . |
| 25 | My impression of Rangoon in those first days was that it was only just beginning to come to life again , with everyone rather hopeless about the difficulties involved . |
| 26 | Another thing that distinguished Mario back in the very earliest days was that he always wanted to win at everything . |
| 27 | The beauty about those days was that you built up suites of software to suit the way you worked . |
| 28 | One of his most recent historical discoveries was that he was Victor Edmund on his birth certificate , and not Victor Edward as on the cover of his book ! |
| 29 | A further result of the identification of women with unskilled workers was that they were ideal recruits when the de-skilling of a trade was already happening because of technological change . |
| 30 | Probably the single most raised criticism of PageMaker in its earlier versions was that it did not automatically flow text from column to column or page to page . |