Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [num] was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers . |
| 2 | The outcome of State Department deliberations in the first four months of 1949 was that the character of the occupation must be changed so as to afford the Japanese more legitimate freedom of action . |
| 3 | Will he now agree that the figure of 380 was that recommended by the review ? |
| 4 | The principal service to Fleetwood until 1963 was that to North Station , alternating with which was a Promenade service , providing a combined headway of six minutes during the season . |
| 5 | The plan for 1988 was that the discount rate was to be fixed each month at 1 per cent above the equivalent annual rate of increase in industrial prices in the previous month . |
| 6 | Perhaps the strangest think of all about the garotting panic of 1862 was that in the haste to describe the awful contours of the ‘ new ’ crime , the equally ‘ unprecedented ’ alarms of 1856 were almost entirely forgotten , although the same complaints and accusations had been well rehearsed . |
| 7 | What changed with the partition of Ireland in 1920 was that the two dominant alliances were internally reorganized . |
| 8 | The importance of this should not be missed : one aspect of growing local government spending in the first thirty years after 1945 was that the balance between sources of funding shifted dramatically . |
| 9 | The outcome by 1800 was that around a fifth of manufacturing output was exported compared with a third in 1700 , and that whereas manufactured goods had then up to a third of imports , by 1815 they hardly figured at all . |
| 10 | It turned out that our candidate , who came to address us one evening , knew my Aunt Kit and had the greatest admiration for her , even though he also knew that the only reason why she had not been offered another , safer constituency after 1945 was that it had become too obvious she was unable to keep off the drink . |
| 11 | One of the concessions Bevan made to the consultants in 1946 was that they could keep their separate private pay-beds in NHS hospitals . |
| 12 | As already noted , the attraction of monetarism for the new Conservative leadership by 1979 was that it promised a method of controlling inflation by means , as it were , of an automatic pilot ; there would be no need for government to compromise its authority with producer groups . |
| 13 | What was striking about the instant response to Stanley 's emancipation proposals in 1833 was that it came from Howick , until recently in charge , at the Colonial Office , of the emancipation question , and that his strongest dissent arose from the failure of the plan to chart a move as soon as possible directly from slavery to free labour without bothering with an apprenticeship stage . |
| 14 | My own feeling in 1981 was that we should try to achieve something better and that just muddling through was not enough . |
| 15 | The outstanding fact of the position in 1974 was that the region had 6,000 beds within the six large hospitals , but serving a population of fewer than 4 million . |