Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] that [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What this meant in practice was that we overplayed the Health Service , we underplayed almost everything else , and then got into an awful muddle over proportional representation . |
| 2 | I have done mine , erm , I will send one of these round , but the majority of them I feel are so very small that I do n't feel that we need to discuss filling in the because I know the intention was that we sent the document well in advance of what 's being done otherwise we are just going to get bogged down in er , this meeting in terms of all of the decisions . |
| 3 | What distinguished my article , through , from the observations of those trail-blazing precursors was that it acknowledged the presence not only of the ( nonsemiological , non- ‘ signreading ’ ) public but also of the collective bliss which , whatever my own sense of alienation , the theme park experience generated among the public . |
| 4 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 5 | The importance of the amendment by the 1988 Criminal Justice Act was that it added the words from serious harm from him' to the end of the sentence only a custodial sentence would be adequate to protect the public' . |
| 6 | The crucial weaknesses of the South Korean army on the eve of the Korean War were that it lacked the range and quality of the equipment possessed by the North Korean forces and that the leadership of the North Korean army was inspired by a fanaticism unequalled by those fighting for Syngman Rhee . |
| 7 | Its fundamental differences to the original Illustrator product were that it simplified the user interface both by the introduction of a freehand tool and the classification of anchor points into line , corner and curve types while simultaneously introducing the benefits of colour . |
| 8 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 9 | The outcome was that we won the match , reaching 159 for 9 with our unbroken last-wicket partnership of 68 being completed entirely with the assistance of runners . |
| 10 | Its attraction was that it has the advantage of any competitive sport , that measurable results can be easily obtained . |
| 11 | Erm my understanding of the paper that we had for the seminar was that it discussed the nature of explanation . |
| 12 | Matthew Arnold 's great achievement was that he convinced the younger generation among his readers of the necessity for providing throughout England an abundant supply of public secondary schools for boys and girls , schools which would be intellectually competent , attested by public inspection , and aided both by local authorities and the state . |
| 13 | One great advantage which he claimed for Realism was that it allowed the analyst to dispense with the motives and intentions of the decision-makers . |
| 14 | His evidence was that he read the report on the night that he received it and was — as others would have been — shocked to find that the parliamentary statements relating to the government 's support for the Nigerians were demonstrably false . |
| 15 | The champion jockey had been waving the whip in his left hand and when he put it down inside the last furlong , I must say that the clear impression from behind my glasses was that he thought the race was over . |
| 16 | CATHERINE Was that what made the difference ? |
| 17 | The flaw in counsel 's argument was that it ignored the fact that the jury were required to consider the case against each accused separately . |
| 18 | The unusual thing neighbours noticed about the quiet civil servant who occupied the attic flat was that he kept the window open in all weathers — to dissipate the smell from the corpses of three of the young men he murdered . |
| 19 | Her complaint was that she had the right to return to the job she had left : if this was not possible because of redundancy , she had a right under s 45(3) of the Employment Protection ( Consolidation ) Act 1978 to be offered alternative employment if there was a suitable available vacancy . |
| 20 | In Athens the political equality of the citizens coexisted uneasily with economic inequality , as it continues to do today ; but the whole point of the democracy was that it gave the poor as well as the rich a part to play in governing the city . |
| 21 | ‘ My advice was that she spend the duration of her pregnancy in hospital . ’ |
| 22 | A Roman Catholic scholar , Hans von Balthasar , recently observed that the weakness of his own church in the past was that it neglected the Bible , while concentrating too much on the teaching of the church . |
| 23 | The difference with Bill was that he had the power to be able to make his fantasy come true and that he lacked the self control , and the basic decency to say ‘ no ’ to himself and to Mandy . |
| 24 | The measure of Ireland 's forward effort was that they dominated the English pack despite a final lineout count that finished 28-16 in England 's favour . |
| 25 | But he pulled thing was sorry thing was that he pulled the one next to the one that he had a toothache in . |
| 26 | Indeed the real significance of the Welfare State report was that it marked the beginning of the end not for the health service but for the CPRS . |
| 27 | A distinguishing feature of spinning when put out to the cottage women and children was that it created the possibility of increasing the money earnings of the family from an occupation distinct from that of the man . |
| 28 | ‘ This was exactly what Martinez had planned , and the rumour was that he worked the whole scheme out with Derek Jefferson . |
| 29 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 30 | The rationale of the putting-out system was that it enabled the merchant capitalist to draw on only as much labour as he needed at any given condition of the market . |