Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] that it had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 2 | One hypothesis which had gained wide acceptance and which was consistent with the damage to the aircraft was that it had been hit in error by a NATO missile . |
| 3 | The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail . |
| 4 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 5 | A complication was that it had to be reduced in a complicated , controlled manner or the electricity grid throughout Ulster would be burned out and would require a long time to replace after the strike would be over . |
| 6 | That , that 's , that And your other point was that it had some quite specific information about what the problem was . |
| 7 | The general opinion was that it had fizzled out ; like a spent squib , it had n't even given one burst . |
| 8 | The worst thing about Pet 's body was that it had been badly crushed below the waist . |
| 9 | Her argument was that it had offered the women of rock ‘ much worship with little esteem … choosing their image from among the already available fantasies and maybe undercutting it with a little irony . ’ |
| 10 | The original conception of the public corporation was that it had only to be given its ‘ marching orders ’ by the political authority and could then be left to pursue the ‘ national interest ’ as management saw fit ( SCNI 1968 : 34 ) . |
| 11 | The Downing Street line on the Home Office incident was that it had been a junior official who had gone through the files to help answer journalists ' inquiries about Clinton , not to help the Bush Administration . |
| 12 | The only snag with decorating was that it had kept her hands busy , but left her mind all too free to wander . |
| 13 | The constant complaint of the British Party against the NUWM was that it had failed to use its influence with employed workers and trade unionists . |
| 14 | One of the unpleasant by-products of this affair was that it had blighted the beginnings of a friendship . |
| 15 | Traffic through the Mersey tunnels was down 4.9pc in the year ending in April but a spokesman said indications were that it had regained 3pc of that business in the first few months of this year . |
| 16 | Its virtue was that it had no neighbours and it had been picked out for just that reason : no-one to ask questions , no-one expecting to start up a friendship . |
| 17 | Rain said nothing , reflecting that the odd thing was that it had taken Sabine Jourdain so long to outgrow her need of that relationship . |
| 18 | The official reason given for the committee 's demise was that it had indulged in counterrevolution and illicit dealings with foreign powers . |
| 19 | If anyone did , the logical explanation was that it had fallen off . |
| 20 | He had inherited from Walter Luff an undertaking whose proud boast was that it had contributed £454,361 in rate relief during his management . |
| 21 | Chemistry had also had symbols , but the problem was that it had them in profusion . |
| 22 | Though there were some criticisms of the new technology , the general consensus was that it had improved the quality of the jobs people did . |
| 23 | THROUGH THIS PLEASANT little chapel in a quiet side street was clearly suitable for conversion to offices — providing the trustees with the financial return they sought — the story was that it had to be demolished because there was nowhere to site the requisite number of car-parking spaces . |
| 24 | Her only excuse was that it had happened so quickly — too quickly . |
| 25 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |
| 26 | A survey conducted in the United States in 1981 revealed that directors considered the feature that made a company most attractive as a take-over target was that it had ‘ excellent management ’ and the majority of respondents regarded management inefficiency as something which would actually put them off . |
| 27 | The large catch was that it had to be done quickly and with no capital expenditure on new equipment . |