Example sentences of "one [noun sg] [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the first days she said her one hope was that her children , isolated though they were , could feel ‘ held ’ in the same safe way . |
| 2 | My one hope was that they would be truly German . |
| 3 | One result was that the British were the world 's major communications operators . |
| 4 | One result was that Germany and Italy lost out because neither could achieve a strong centralised government . |
| 5 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |
| 6 | The minister 's one regret was that he had not been able to implement his scheme in full . |
| 7 | One benefit was that players looked cleaner and smarter in the field without the now familiar red smears . |
| 8 | Building on current practice in case conferences it was found that one difference was that a network meeting involved the client and unpaid informal or family carers , as well as representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate . |
| 9 | One consequence was that , while Bentham was concerned with legal and constitutional reform , the Fabians were more interested in social and economic reform ; and specifically with the social control of socially created values . |
| 10 | One consequence was that Pitt had to float special government loans at high discounts , because he could not secure a sufficient sum from the " market " . |
| 11 | One factor was that although the motor car made up only one third of all motor vehicles , it was yet seen as the crux of the motor problem ( Plowden , 1971 ) . |
| 12 | One defect was that it required proof of the likelihood of a breach of the peace as a result of the defendant 's conduct . |
| 13 | One niggle was that the ends of the shoulder harness adjustment straps were unfinished — if you were n't careful the strap ran right through the buckle . |
| 14 | One theory was that the attack on the nanny was a case of mistaken identity . |
| 15 | My one sadness was that she had died too early to witness my successes . |
| 16 | One argument was that agreements entered into by an organisation would be of little practical effect unless they were simultaneously binding upon the individual member States . |
| 17 | One answer was that the riots in 1980 in Bristol followed by others in Toxteth , Moss Side and Handsworth in 1981 and Tottenham , Handsworth and Bristol in 1985 showed that young people could be a very real threat to the social order as well as just a symbolic one . |
| 18 | The wa the river water 's very very polluted there , so a lot of people got tummy bugs and we slept er on the side of the river in little tents and erm we did n't discover till afterwards , two things , one thing was that the little holes that we saw in the sand were actually scorpion holes |
| 19 | What was clear from one hearing was that none of them is paste . |
| 20 | One reason was that the Kuwaitis would n't give anyone a visa , except female print journalists . |
| 21 | Earlier workers failed ; one reason was that they did not have the technology to reach the necessary high temperatures and pressures . |
| 22 | One reason was that it incorporated a most-favoured-nation rule that precluded bilateral deals and thus limited collective agreements to the willingness of the least cooperative member . |
| 23 | one of the criticisms that has come out on this one book was that because the , these child adults are skilled and put into education , they maybe still illiterate , but they are street wise , they are literate of the street |
| 24 | One risk was that if they did n't act there was a gunman on the loose , desperate , he 's after all escaped from prison , possibly in a confined space in a block of flats with a vantage point . |
| 25 | Oh absolutely , yes I 'm not arguing about that , and as I said , heaven forbid that should happen , erm another point I did pick up from one report was that in the eight years war , and you 're quite right , the Iraqis are battle hardened , but the Iranian air force apparently could n't bomb Iraq to any great consequence except for the first few weeks of the conflict . |
| 26 | One problem was that shorter torsos made for better balance when running , but longer torsos could enable longer intestines to become a more efficient non-ruminant digestive system . |
| 27 | One problem was that the Normans were taking far more out in payments than their predecessors . |
| 28 | Mr Appleby said he was told that one problem was that the crew did n't have time to clear the ferry properly because of the tight turnaround schedule en route . |
| 29 | Even when a governor accepted the assembly 's idea of what was a grievance , his instructions from London limited his freedom of action , usually in the interests of uniformity of imperial policy — one problem was that some American colonial assemblies had Scottish rather than English ideas about divorce and the indissolubility of marriage , but the governors were instructed to veto bills allowing divorce , in order to reduce the difficulties foreseen if each different part of the empire had its own laws about marriage . |
| 30 | One problem was that the RHA needed to ensure that any mental illness initiative was not inequitable with respect to the other neglected client groups . |