Example sentences of "were that [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were it to be that Christian orthodoxy were that a man , Jesus of Nazareth , was God ( or we may say ‘ a god ’ ) , then there would be no hope that Christianity and feminism could be reconciled . |
| 2 | Final figures were that a total of 5,712 candidates had stood for election , of whom 1,021 were independents and the remainder represented one of the 59 different parties . |
| 3 | The general findings of the feasibility study were that a WDF plant could be just profitable , but that at present , neither the quality nor quantity of the feedstock , at an acceptable price , is assured . |
| 4 | His rules of taxation were that a tax should be fair , easy to predict , easy to collect and difficult to evade . |
| 5 | If B 's complaint were that an attempt should have been made to invoke the Gallagher jurisdiction when his appeal was before the House of Lords , then it is long out of time . |
| 6 | Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting . |
| 7 | And during the sort of formative weeks or months of my joining the company the B M S was introduced , and the rules were that the telesales people will now become sales people , and that was one of my briefs if you like , that what you are going to get in front of you Peter is a , is a load of people who are currently working what 's called telesales and what they actually do is make appointments . |
| 8 | The main findings were that the continuations were judged less acceptable when the pronoun 's antecedent was introduced by the verb ( 54 versus 92% ) and that even when the continuations were judged to be acceptable the judgements were made more slowly ( 2281 versus 1871 ms ) . |
| 9 | The grounds were that the work which the appellant offered to carry out when he presented himself to Mr. Burt and Mr. Hughes as a qualified accountant ( and the remuneration that he gained the opportunity to earn as a result ) were services to be provided by him as a self-employed fee-earning accountant , and therefore were to be provided neither under a contract of employment nor by virtue of his holding of an office within the meaning of section 16(2) ( c ) of the Theft Act 1968 . |
| 10 | Other reports were that the killings resulted from the refusal of a Coptic resident to pay " protection money " to followers of a civil servant , Gamal Farghaly Haridi , who headed the local Gamaat . |
| 11 | Signs of Constantine 's new deal for the church were that the council petitioned and obtained from the emperor a degree of tax exemption for the sake of the church 's welfare for the poor , and that exile was imposed on the two bishops who withheld their signature to the creed and canons . |
| 12 | Further , though mothers in some areas reported the contrary , clinical findings were that the incidence of fever and diarrhoea also increased with family size . |
| 13 | His three criteria for identifying the modifications as chemical erosion as opposed to physical abrasion were that the damage was localized and not evenly spread over the whole surface of the bones , there was greater erosion of the tips of the teeth with some teeth not damaged at all , and discoloration spread into the re-entrant angles of the vole teeth . |
| 14 | The only conditions were that the person receiving the pension had to retire and agree to spend the money within the month . |
| 15 | However , the indications were that the USA and Europe would provide substantial aid to cover the costs . |
| 16 | they use er , a very sort of sparse unpopulated area obviously and so you do get erm plants and animals having to , well change it so that they , er you take as it were that the genes changed , some does mutation probably alright , some probably not . |
| 17 | The Crown 's practical arguments were that the case was so rare that it could not call for a fundamental reformulation of the law and that it was impossible for their lordships to set limits on the application of the principle which , being a matter of policy , was a question for the legislature . |
| 18 | I understand your concern an and were that the case show your reluctance to go with the the amendment but there is no such implication that the three point six five one million er er thereby becomes committed in any sense and the big this is an additional provision which may lead er may gone up to er over and above that but it does n't actually admit it to that . |
| 19 | The further conditions were that the assembly of the people constituted that national will , and that land was held in common right by the nation . |
| 20 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 21 | If a person were to announce to a policeman that he was about to go to the house of his sworn enemy and beat the living daylights out of him , it would not make sense if the law were that the policeman had to follow the suspect to the locus in quo and only then arrest him . |
| 22 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association is considering the NCC proposals , but Director John Patrick FICM said that his initial thoughts were that the CCTA would not want to be involved in collecting a levy . |
| 23 | The Council 's longstanding interest in the Scottish Steel Industry was given a higher priority by the decision of British Steel to close the hot strip mill at Ravenscraig in early 1991 and the indications were that the rest of Ravenscraig would cease operations in 1994 . |
| 24 | Government estimates at the end of 1990 were that the cost of the Gulf crisis to the Romanian economy was at least US$3,500 million . |
| 25 | Other variations in the questions were that the shapes were presented with or without square grids and with all four or just two lengths labelled in the diagram . |
| 26 | Well David said that we were at the end , everyone believed that they were that the time has come that we was at the end of the world . |
| 27 | Recently the International Secretariat of the Golden Oldies was in Dublin to run the rule over the arrangements and all the indications were that the officials were pleased with all they saw . |
| 28 | Rumours over the weekend were that the food manufacturers who supply more than £50m worth of goods to Gateway each week are concerned about extending further credit . |
| 29 | The points made then were that the application is contrary to the stated policy of the local planning authority where new dwellings in the countryside have to be justified by agricultural need . |
| 30 | The financial arrangements were that the Northern Ireland government received 2.5 per cent of whatever was raised by UK taxation and could raise a very limited amount in taxation on its own account . |