Example sentences of "[was/were] [that] it was " in BNC.
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| 31 | The final ignominy was that it was the Environment Department not MAFF that now had to provide public justification . |
| 32 | The UK 's objection to the proposed Directive was that it was ‘ unreasonably restrictive ’ to designate large river catchments ‘ simply because , for a short period of time in the autumn , the water may temporarily exceed 50 mg/litre although throughout the rest of the year it will be well below that figure . ’ |
| 33 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 34 | One of the several results was that it was very beneficial to fifteen actors like himself and eight directors who were ‘ hot ’ , and five good writers . |
| 35 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 36 | The first , simplest , and strongest argument was that it was wrong and unnecessary to place eleven-year-olds in separate schools . |
| 37 | One of the advantages of scheduling one 's own bereavement was that it was far easier to respond in a mature , caring way to one 's partner 's decease . |
| 38 | The only thing was that it was n't Noreen . |
| 39 | ‘ He lost it , and all I can remember was that it was about a star . ’ |
| 40 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |
| 41 | What she did n't find out until too late was that it was one thing to jump a gap but quite another to stay put on the landing stone when the surface was wet and slippery . |
| 42 | The only important thing about the rest of my life was that it was there . |
| 43 | The only real characteristic of each day was that it was the same as the day before and to give any account of such days in strict sequence would make as tedious reading as it made tedious living . |
| 44 | What was perhaps so satisfying about the sermon was that it was able to turn an apparently negative quality into a positive asset . |
| 45 | Carew 's immediate response was that it was garish and vulgar , like Durkin himself . |
| 46 | In B Division , the discipline was about the worst in the force — the thing was that it was not a bad pay-packet plus there was the pension at the end — a big item . |
| 47 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 48 | In her book on the local state Cynthia Cockburn develops this idea by suggesting that the main criticism to be applied to corporate planning in local government was that it was a method borrowed from the private sector and was thus inherently anti-democratic , implying control from the top and attempts to manage the community ( the reproduction of labour power ) , as well as the workforce ( in the process of production ) ( Cockburn , 1977 , pp. 6–18 ) . |
| 49 | For them , the main explanation of national policy — at least in its centralization phrase — was that it was designed to undermine resistance to the wider political strategies of the Conservative government . |
| 50 | The weakness of feudal service as a basis for recruiting an army was that it was hedged round with difficult restrictions . |
| 51 | Some writers have held that the essential thing about medieval law was that it was discovered , not made ; in so far as it was valid and sound , it was a reflection of divine law ; it partook of the nature of what in more recent times has been called ‘ fundamental law ’ . |
| 52 | The League of Nations appeared to have washed its hands of the city , and the general attitude was that it was a matter for Poles and Germans to decide between themselves . |
| 53 | Like Forster , all he could guess was that it was fast . |
| 54 | The redeeming feature was that it was all in aid of charity and two children 's hospitals outside Moscow benefited . |
| 55 | According to Ben Hird ( the nineteen year old winner of it in 1900 ) in his book about the arrow , the most likely story was that it was won by John Wastell at an archery tournament while he was at Cambridge in 1653–4 ( it was not unusual for silver arrows to be given as prizes in such contests ) and brought back to his family home at Scorton . |
| 56 | When we gave it a tightfisted 52% in Issue 79 , our main bone of contention was that it was ridiculously overpriced . |
| 57 | Dalgliesh 's private verdict was that it was technically brilliant , but overwrought and painted , he felt , in hatred . |
| 58 | But the inescapable conclusion was that it was one of their own who must have been responsible . |
| 59 | The only surprising thing was that it was all less irksome than he had imagined . |
| 60 | ‘ The biggest difficulty was that it was anonymous , ’ she says . |