Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only disappointment was that after opening up a 50-point lead at the beginning of August , they failed to win any of the next four matches . |
| 2 | The only disappointment was that I never did see them feeding , for I could have learned such a lot in those short but interesting hours . |
| 3 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 4 | The only comment from Tek Pokharel of the Nepal Mountaineering Association was that it was a question of managing numbers , not limiting them : ‘ Everest is a big mountain ’ , he said . |
| 5 | The general thinking was that Mr Flood had seen some kind of vision , but was not ready yet to reveal it to the town . |
| 6 | The snag in all this thinking was that most of the people involved knew little or nothing about producing mass-market newspapers . |
| 7 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 8 | One of the main advantages of video as an aid was that it could be used during poor weather . |
| 9 | A feature of early denudation chronology was that it tended to concentrate upon particular areas and that the record deduced for those areas tended to exercise an unduly significant influence upon the way in which new areas were interpreted . |
| 10 | In addition to a single card , each group received a worksheet containing the following instructions : One of the advantages of cutting up the card was that each group , after having recorded its own reconstruction , was able to assemble the narratives proposed by the other groups . |
| 11 | The outcome of this extraordinary deal was that Derbyshire 's pension fund had made Oyston [ the media tycoon ] richer on paper by as much as £1m . |
| 12 | When I was , shall we say , inducted into the SS , the deal was that I only operated against the Russians . |
| 13 | Er I suspect that what they 've sent us is the software but not the database for any wards and the the deal was that we would get er at least er the database for two wards er and a printout annotated with telephone numbers of the er electoral register . |
| 14 | ‘ Part of the deal was that the vessel should be renamed and based on the Clyde . |
| 15 | Jackie was asked if she would take a Thoroughbred mare who had been abandoned in a field and give her a home as a brood mare — but part of the deal was that she also took the pony who had been left with her . |
| 16 | The result of the CAFU experiment was that the cockpit conversation between the flight crew when they were not using the intercom was crystal clear . |
| 17 | An important perception was that in villages with fewer than 500 inhabitants interest in adult education had to be generated within the whole community with the intention of creating a social movement , rather than in appeals to sectional interests in such small communities . |
| 18 | Their perception was that we , we had a desperate shortage of staff |
| 19 | Indeed , our own perception was that the system was performing quite well but staff in branches were telling us , in plain English , that they were unhappy . |
| 20 | Of total foreign investment in Czechoslovakia over the previous 2 years only 11 per cent had gone to Slovakia , and the common perception was that the industries of the Czech Lands were in general better placed to benefit from the programme of rapid privatization emphasised by Klaus . |
| 21 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 22 | His reasoning was that GHQ could not deal with such a large number of small units . |
| 23 | His reasoning was that the first field was inadequate for operating with the additional load . |
| 24 | His reasoning was that Seoul , the venue , would be too cold in November , even though this is the regular season of the South Koreans . |
| 25 | ‘ I guess their reasoning was that it would add to my experience . |
| 26 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 27 | The reasoning was that in the interval the Home Secretary had announced on Third Reading in the Commons that the Government accepted the decision reached by a majority of the House . |
| 28 | His reasoning was that language is infinite and the study of performance is limited to a very small fraction of the possible sentences of the language . |
| 29 | The implication of this line of reasoning was that if they could be left alone , insulated from the capitalist global reach , Third World countries would be better off , and would actually be able to develop themselves . |
| 30 | His reasoning was that none of the men who were conceivable successors were of sufficient stature to reign — he talked privately about his " monarchy " — without the legitimation of popular election . |