Example sentences of "that the [noun] [was/were] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While it is likely that the ship was sailing from Brindisi , on the heel of Italy , towards Rome , it is also possible , given the terminus ante quem of the fourth century AD when Rome was in decline , that the destination was one of the new power bases of the Empire in the East : Thessalonica , Constantinople , Nicomedia or Antioch . |
| 2 | This benefit is also derived from the plaintiff at the uncle 's request , if the promise of the annuity was intended as an inducement to the marriage ; and the averment that the plaintiff , relying on the promise , married , is an averment that the promise was one inducement to the marriage . |
| 3 | Analysts agreed that the campaign was one of Malaysia 's most fiercely contested and most expensive , although the shortest . |
| 4 | He could only guess that the mood was one of retrenchment and retreat , with a desire to preserve at all costs a ‘ rather narrow , English concept of academic excellence ’ . |
| 5 | However , the defence argued that the case was one of mistaken identity and that Rashid was in fact Mohammed Hamdan , an officer in the PLO 's Revolutionary Army . |
| 6 | Lord Reid considered that the case was one of remoteness of damage . |
| 7 | Twenty seven year old Daniel Ahearn was told by Sheriff Susan Raeburn that the case was one of the worst she 'd heard . |
| 8 | After consultation , the representatives of the Company told him that the gradients were 1 in 18.9 . |
| 9 | The delays between connecting trains often being considerable , it is needless to remark that the position was one of intolerable discomfort , though it was accepted by both passengers and railway staff as part of the day 's work . |
| 10 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 11 | Perhaps the earliest statement of the view that latent inhibition depends upon the relationship between the target stimulus and its consequences was that offered by Mackintosh ( 1973 ) , who argued that the phenomenon was one aspect of a general ability of animals to learn to ignore stimuli that predicted no change in reinforcement . |
| 12 | It seems that the Sultan was one of the first victims of non-standardization ; he paid a thousand dollars for a machine for which only one cylinder was ever made ! |
| 13 | Dr Alan Silman , director of the unit , and his colleagues , found that the women were nine times more likely to develop the disease in the three months after delivery . |
| 14 | Er most of my points have actually dried up now , sir , in view of what Mr Cunnane has said , and also Mr Jewitt , erm I do actually , I would try to emphasize a point that the people who are proposing new settlements in this location have judiciously avoided the question of need this afternoon , well I think we we almost came to the point this morning that the shortfall was nine hundred and reducing almost on a month by month basis , er one or two quick points I would like to pick up , er in view of the erm small nature or the shortfall in housing supply that we see over the next fifteen years , I can not accept that to avoid the new settlement option would be prejudicial to greenbelt objectives , erm the housing land supply allocations are almost there , there are plans to run through which will un almost inevitably allocate additional sites inside the inner edge of the greenbelt boundary and outside the outer edge of the greenbelt boundary , but both within Greater York , which are bound to assist in making up the shortfall of provision , and probably , if I suspect rightly , would actually exceed it , erm erm I agree with Mr Cunnane on the question of the alternative expansion of existing towns or settlements , the same point really , we 're almost there anyway , the op that option is already there , it 's not that it might be there , it is it is there at the moment , er it 's not a clear expression of local preference , and I would also point out the option of the environmental improvements under the P P G criteria you asked us to look at , erm whether it 's a thousand houses , two thousand , two and a half thousand , whether it has a bowling alley , or a ten pin bowling alley , and a B and Q , and a , probably a Tesco as well , this form of development will not sit comfortably in open countryside , almost , wherever it 's put within the Greater York area , I defy anyone to produce a site where one can satisfactorily put er such a massive form of urban development and suggest it 's a positive environmental improvement . |
| 15 | I looked up at the sky and saw that the clouds were one dark , lurid , compact mass . |
| 16 | AFTER TWO singles , it was ridiculously clear that The Smiths were one of the most exciting groups in years . |
| 17 | This seems a far cry from the Tory-ism of the Exclusion Crisis : the Oxford Decree of 1683 had condemned the doctrine that the Crown was one of the three estates . |
| 18 | It was still infinitely more likely , to his mind , that the poisoner was one of the Pitt family . |
| 19 | The House of Lords held that the issue was one of causation , not quantification of damage . |
| 20 | The correspondence shows that the lunch-date was eighteen months after Vivien 's death , and makes it clear that he had to attend the funeral of Mrs Mirrlees , a great friend at whose house at Shamley Green , Surrey , he had spent some of the war . |
| 21 | A bona fide belief that the victim was 16 or over when the indecent assault took place will not amount to a defence ( R v Maughan ( 1934 ] , 24 Cr App R 130 ) . |
| 22 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 23 | ‘ Tell me about Illinois , Lee , ’ she invited , assuming that the figure was one of the kitchen staff . |
| 24 | It had been unnecessary , of course , for her to mention that the silver was one of my father 's main responsibilities and one he took great pride in . |
| 25 | Acheson replied that the obstacle was one of security . |
| 26 | The court held that the council could not maintain the action : ‘ to allow such a thing would be wholly unprecedented and contrary to principle : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 806 , per Day J. There were two grounds of decision in effect , first , that a corporation might sue for a libel affecting property but not for one affecting personal reputation and , secondly , that the charge was one of bribery and corruption of which ( see the Metropolitan Saloon Omnibus Co. case , 4 H. & N. 87 ) ‘ a corporation can not possibly be guilty : ’ 63 L.T. 805 , 807 . |
| 27 | It bore the stamp of a charlatan ; apart from the hint that the fuel was lithium-6 , there was nothing at all to facilitate independent assessment of his ideas and results . |
| 28 | Indeed Welford Beaton , like many other Hollywood figures , thought that Vidor had carried ‘ realism just a little farther than the public will prove willing to follow ’ and he brilliantly argued that films had to give hope and to show a way forward , but he did conceded that The Crowd was one of the best films ever made and he hoped that it would inspire further ventures into realism . |
| 29 | It denied , however , that the reactor was one of two which had been turned off after particular criticism . |
| 30 | However humble , I now saw that the pigeon was one of God 's creatures . |