Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [that] [pron] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most likely explanation of the episode is that it was a pre-emptive strike , designed to smooth Gloucester 's way to the throne . |
| 2 | The most likely explanation of the episode is that it was a pre-emptive strike , designed to smooth Gloucester 's way to the throne . |
| 3 | The central hypothesis of the research is that there was a shift in respectable middle class public opinion from the orthodoxy of emancipation in the 1830s to the legitimation of new forms of racism by the 1860s . |
| 4 | The disadvantage is that it was very expensive , low in fibre , and not well balanced for use in the long term . |
| 5 | The only comment from Tek Pokharel of the Nepal Mountaineering Association was that it was a question of managing numbers , not limiting them : ‘ Everest is a big mountain ’ , he said . |
| 6 | committee did draw distinction between the two different kinds of schemes , erm perhaps if I could just ask you what do you think of the committee the Good reports er conclusion on training for trustees where they er the recommendation was that it was a laudable objective , but should not be made compulsory ? |
| 7 | The discussion that Richard and I had , my recommendation was that it was not a big enough thing to cover a separate procedure for . |
| 8 | The significance of that result was that it was only Wales 's third win in five seasons in the competition . |
| 9 | The result was that there was not the level of ability on the shop floor to sustain the German system of decentralisation and shop-floor level integration of work . |
| 10 | For the rest of the session and in the spring of 1913 , the Liberals took no risk of further defeat , but this required constant attendance at the House by Liberal MPs ; the result was that there was no autumn session in 1913 and no Plural Voting Bill was passed . |
| 11 | The result was that I was painfully shy . |
| 12 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 13 | South African captain Kepler Wessels 's verdict on his side 's 107-run defeat was that it was difficult to go straight into an international match without a warm-up game . |
| 14 | When Galileo inquired how the presence of the invisible substance might be detected , the reply was that there was no way in which it could be detected . |
| 15 | The irony was that it was the British Labour Party which now responded more sympathetically towards Europe , since the social charter of the Community , drafted by its French socialist president , Jacques Delors , was in most respects highly congenial to the British left . |
| 16 | The final irony was that it was unnecessary , anyway . |
| 17 | Yet the irony was that there was no support in Cabinet for the proposals and they had almost reached the point of rejection when the leak took place . |
| 18 | The Head of Department remarked that an overall criticism of the department was that there was not enough variety . |
| 19 | Not long after we met , I remember telling him that in my opinion his only fault was that he was too predictable , that , although no doubt perverse , I enjoyed being kept guessing a bit more often . |
| 20 | Her only fault was that she was too saintly , and was thus exploited by too many people , out of greed and lack of consideration for a woman whose life was one of toil and devotion to her family . |
| 21 | Its only real fault was that it was ahead of its time . |
| 22 | The format of the interview was that I was in a single chair placed to the side of a panel of six sitting in two rows . |
| 23 | Scotland might order things differently , but in England the rule was that what was not prohibited was permitted and the debate on civil rights was therefore concerned with the balance between the acceptable limits imposed by law and the freedom of action of the individual . |
| 24 | professional advice about Elizabeth 's unhappiness was that she was in a state of ‘ mourning ’ and that time would improve matters . |
| 25 | This ‘ evidence ’ was never published but he persisted in his belief that his only crime was that he was found out . |
| 26 | Darling 's points were credible in the circumstances ; the only plausible explanation of Shill 's actions after the crime was that he was in a drunken stupor . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The defence to the action was that there was no consideration for the promise of payment , it being the duty of the county council to supply police protection ; there was also a counterclaim for £1,330 4s. , the cost of feeding and housing the police supplied . |
| 29 | The result of this ineptitude was that I was rumbled as a single parent within days , if not hours , and subsequently approached as if I were a fatal poison masquerading as a person . |
| 30 | The first news of his condition was that he was winded , bruised and in shock , but likely to be passed fit to race today . |