Example sentences of "[vb past] that [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As an unhappy season has progressed , the committee agreed that coaching was the essential ingredient for lasting success . |
| 2 | They were all for nationalization , because they believed that nationalization was the only way to solve the problems of the development the future development of the railways . |
| 3 | The articles of agreement stipulated that gold was the official numeraire in terms of which each currency 's exchange value was to be pegged , but it became common practice for countries to adopt a par value for their currencies expressed in terms of the dollar . |
| 4 | The catalyst which provoked that indignation was the appearance in their lives of a wealthy businessman , Peter Shand Kydd who had recently returned to Britain after selling a sheep farm in Australia . |
| 5 | Surveys for the Crowther Committee showed that illness was the most frequently stated reason for default , followed closely by unemployment . |
| 6 | In 1844 , a London surgeon , G.F. Girdwood , wrote an article in The Lancet which , based on his extensive zoological studies of dogs and horses , showed that menstruation was the human version of being ‘ on heat ’ — it showed the readiness of the female for impregnation . |
| 7 | What happened that afternoon was the product of countless details , all of which had to be just right . |
| 8 | He thought about it a bit more and decided that home was the wrong word ; it was just the place where he lived . |
| 9 | Louis Gerstner clearly decided that discretion was the better part of valour when it came to facing the blue rinse brigade at the annual meeting in Tampa , Florida yesterday , and just before the meeting , IBM Corp announced that its diminished dividend would be unchanged at 54 cents a share for the first quarter ; there had been fears that the company would cut it again . |
| 10 | Having seen his ally overwhelmed in this startling fashion , Count Vulgrin decided that discretion was the better part of valour . |
| 11 | Like a twat I decided that attack was the best way of preserving my job , and so I demanded that the board give me complete control over team selection , tactics , welfare etc. , with no boardroom interference whatsoever . |
| 12 | A community famed for exuberant high living suddenly decided that austerity was the better part of valour . |
| 13 | Reluctantly she decided that adoption was the only solution . |
| 14 | Such an alliance , for Bukharin , implied that co-operation was the keystone of success , not confrontation , as implied by the drive towards forced collectivisation . |
| 15 | I mean I thought that migration was the er , would be the cure of all ills , in that , you know , we 've got wage differentials here in this , in this hypothetical economy . |
| 16 | The peak we did that day was the Ober Gabelhorn , and I look back on it now with no embarrassment . |
| 17 | The judge said that the imponderables included voluntary wastage , redundancy , dismissal , supervenient ill health , disablement or death before sixty five and said that death was the major discount . |
| 18 | Lord Redcliffe-Maud considered that Senior was the only one of the eleven commissioners who had made his mind up before the first meeting of the Royal Commission ( Wood 1976:8 ) . |
| 19 | In addition , the social imperialists held that empire was the means to secure and enhance working-class living standards and employment in the metropolitan country , and so deflect revolution . |