Example sentences of "[vb pp] that this was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The industry has always claimed that this was a purely technical decision without any political overtones . |
| 2 | Of course , it could be claimed that this was the same thing as : but it has been pointed out that the two versions are different in several ways . |
| 3 | Not many viewers can have realised that this was a deft parody of the catastrophic visit of Mike 's ‘ uni-mates ’ a week or so ago that ended in Bron cruelly dumping him just before his psychology exam . |
| 4 | After some discussion it was realised that this was a what/how problem , ie the analysis had revealed what information was needed , but not how it appeared in practice ( see also page 188 ) . |
| 5 | By now the Boeing company had realised that this was a matter of fundamental importance to one of their primary aircraft types and they sent their top rank engineers and metallurgists to participate , under the supervision of American investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board , in the UK investigation . |
| 6 | We should have realised that this was a sign of things to come . ’ |
| 7 | MAFF says that only 1 per cent of the 2,500 samples analysed in 1990 and 1991 exceeded Maximum Residue Levels , although the Pesticides Trust commented that this was a worryingly high level for staple foods . |
| 8 | Nichols , watching this pantomime , quickly explained that this was the guy he had picked for the lead in The Graduate . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne had already checked that this was the only one of herself in the pile . |
| 10 | It is conceded that this was a mistake , flowing from a desire to be fair to the defence . |
| 11 | The Italian interior minister had already stipulated that this was the only way he could guarantee the security of the World Cup . |
| 12 | The Italian interior minister had already stipulated that this was the only way he could guarantee the security of the World Cup . |
| 13 | Returning to my seat after the second interval , I had decided that this was a first night which had somehow not ‘ taken off ’ and that all kinds of good intentions had somehow failed to coalesce , though they probably would later in the run . |
| 14 | They were sheep who had decided that this was no time to waste energy panicking when it could be used for galloping away as fast as possible . |
| 15 | The next day , instead of counting their blessings , officials apparently decided that this was the moment to announce the ending of price controls for oil and grain and new taxes . |
| 16 | Tomkins made no major acquisitions during 1991/92 , and therefore decided that this was an ideal opportunity ‘ to ensure that we are obtaining the best quality audit worldwide , consistent with a justifiable level of cost ’ . |
| 17 | Given that our Delegation 's 15 votes formed less than two thirds of a quota and bearing in mind that this was a first attempt , it was felt that this was a somewhat ambitious foray into the politics of the wider Trade Union Movement . |
| 18 | Above all , over a unilateral nuclear policy , a stance previously adopted with fervour by Kinnock and Michael Foot before him , it was now accepted that this was a programme unpopular with the mass of the British people , and actually rejected by the glasnost of President Gorbachev as well . |
| 19 | Under its constitution West Germany ( like Japan — see below ) could take no part in external military activities , and by Aug. 20 Chancellor Kohl had apparently accepted that this was a definitive barrier , the view of both Foreign Minister Genscher and Defence Minister Gerhard Stoltenberg ( both Free Democrats in Kohl 's Christian Democrat-led coalition ) . |
| 20 | It is now widely accepted that this was the main cause of the rise in population . |
| 21 | As in divided Germany and divided Korea , Ho Chi Minh and his comrades might have accepted that this was the reality : especially as it became ever more clear that the United States intended to uphold the status quo with all their power . |
| 22 | It was later revealed that this was the 15th such shipment to Israel since October 1990 ( the majority of which had been made under BND auspices ) . |
| 23 | ‘ It was said that this was the place where the tide came in first and went out last , but this recession has barely affected us so far ’ , announces Richard Needham , minister of state for Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | Some commentators — particularly Cockburn and Dearlove — have argued that this was a period of structural change in which local government became more clearly tied to the interests of capitalism and closer to business interests . |
| 25 | It could be argued that this was a violation of the satyāgrahi 's moral duty not to coerce his opponent or to take advantage of his weakness and vulnerability . |
| 26 | Taken in conjunction with the tax benefits owner occupiers receive ( see Chapter 13 ) it can be argued that this was a major economic distortion . |
| 27 | In the previous chapter ( p.41 ) it was argued that this was the period when a major ideological stress of antislavery was its embodiment of the national interest across class and denomination , and such meetings offered dramatic demonstration of aristocratic support ( the Duke of Bedford at Woburn ) , ‘ the elite of the town , churchmen and dissenters ’ ( at Dunstable ) and caught up audiences , already stirred by ‘ an intensity of feeling on the fate of the Reform Bill ’ , into an almost equally excited interest in emancipation . |
| 28 | It can be seen that this was a way of ‘ blaming the victim ’ : it seems as though the young person had failed to find a job because they had not filled in the application form properly or were too untidy , rather than because there were not enough jobs . |
| 29 | As was noted above , it was suspected that this was a factor in the lack of a build-up of long-stay patients in the new services established after Powick was closed to admissions . |
| 30 | It might be thought that this was a natural consequence of the popularity of great artists , but in fact the economics of publishing result in some bizarre decisions about art books . |