Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [was/were] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I found when I looked at this problem over the course of ten years was that this complexity , like responsibility time span , also occurs in leaps or jumps . |
| 2 | The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account . |
| 3 | The consequence of the Knoyles ' poverty and the Hutchings ' absenteeism over the previous two centuries was that the Manor House had a miraculous escape from Georgian owners wanting to keep up with the times . |
| 4 | I think that the most likely of the four possibilities was that Stalin planned the murder with Nikolaev to commit it for him . |
| 5 | The two drawbacks were that it initially took a long time to get into , and it was hot — the first problem was solved , the second not . |
| 6 | The main difference between the two tasks was that the causal task required a choice between two different events ( the cause and the effect of B ) , whereas the temporal task required a choice between two different event-orders . |
| 7 | The first of four complaints was that the trial judge exerted undue pressure by sending the jury out to consider their verdict at 5.28 p.m. after they had spent the day listening to the end of the prosecuting counsel 's closing address and the whole of the summing up , but their Lordships consider that this was a reasonable course to have taken . |