Example sentences of "this [was/were] [conj] [pron] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 2 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 3 | What I 'd like to say is I think erm certainly in Scotland and in Strathclyde area that four years ago , erm the first women in transport survey was actually carried out , erm and it was carried out elsewhere in Britain and er this was as I say the first study that had been done and the results were very surprising . |
| 4 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 5 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |