Example sentences of "this [was/were] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 2 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 3 | This was that women became subordinated economically because the men gained control of the means of production , and so ‘ while the husband became the bourgeois the wife represented the proletariat ’ [ p. 137 ] . |
| 4 | The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart . |
| 5 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 6 | The chief reason for this was that people were living longer . |
| 7 | The irony of this was that Galbraith 's working title for the book was Why People Are Poor . |
| 8 | This was that although the District would be explicitly recognised as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses throughout the rural areas scheme , if any class wished to have a Chapter III category course organised by the Cambridge Board the WEA would agree to the Board assuming providing powers for the purpose of meeting the wishes of the students in the class . |
| 9 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |
| 10 | The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School . |
| 11 | One advantage of this was that the employer or manager was often a part-time farmer/crofter himself and was therefore more understanding of requests for days off or late arrivals in the morning . |
| 12 | One of the results of this was that he later sought to influence his son with the truths of Scripture . |
| 13 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 14 | The danger with this was that it caused believers to look to their own faith rather than to Christ alone for the assurance of their salvation . |
| 15 | The key to this was that they all began life with a strong philosophical commitment to development and were given some of the new , additional staff needed in order to give life to this philosophy . |
| 16 | One reason for this was that its officers were not bound by past conventions or the class structure that so dominated MI6 . |
| 17 | This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure . |
| 18 | The result of all this was that the Government 's claims about the march and its defence of the actions of the police carried very little conviction outside the ranks of its own supporters . |
| 19 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 20 | The corollary to this was that a unit operating according to such principles would have to be trained to arrive on the scene of an operation by every practical method from land , sea or air . |
| 21 | One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment . |
| 22 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 23 | not only was the undergraduate teaching poor , but there was only a minimal amount of postgraduate education in this subject ; part of the reason for this was that there was a shortage of suitable qualified and experienced doctors who knew enough to take on such postgraduate teaching ; |
| 24 | The upshot of this was that a number of companies pulled out of the timber-frame house-building market and the proportion of houses built by this method had dropped from 24 to 17 per cent by the beginning of 1984 , and is even less now . |
| 25 | He was sure , too , that she had believed him and he knew that the reason for this was that the story he had concocted was so very unlikely that no liar could possibly have put his faith in it . |
| 26 | The reason for this was that she did n't like Mr. Gordon . |
| 27 | The reason for this was that Angela was a very neat , spruce and tidy little person . |
| 28 | The reason for this was that he was contaminated with radon decay products from his house . |
| 29 | The explanation which Hall later gave for this was that although the War Department competition was dead , he was seeking official approval for the principle that , for all important government buildings in London , ‘ a competition , limited or otherwise , should take place , instead of the work being committed , as a matter of course to an officer of the establishment ’ . |
| 30 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |