Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] [was/were] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim Callaghan 's response was that he ‘ had never in fifty years been so depressed as a trade unionist ’ . |
| 2 | The United States continued to be irritated , while Britain 's response was that even if France sabotaged the EDC , it would not prevent West German rearmament . |
| 3 | The dealer 's response was that every one of the positions was tenable , depending on which aspect of the truth was considered more important . |
| 4 | The US State Department 's response was that it needed to see the blueprints on European defence before it could think of pouring concrete . |
| 5 | The farmer 's defence was that he intended only to wound the thief , and thought he was entitled to do so . |
| 6 | At the trial , the mother 's defence was that she was haunted by black magic and voodoo , and a voice had commanded her to ‘ Strangle ! |
| 7 | Ponting 's defence was that he was acting in the public interest since he felt that the government was trying to mislead Parliament . |
| 8 | The Crown 's case was that the men were found by the police in a public lavatory behaving indecently towards each other . |
| 9 | Berg 's case was that the unqualified report by the auditors gave the company an opportunity to continue to carry on business and to borrow money from third parties . |
| 10 | One of the hallmarks of Asimov 's fiction was that its science , though sometimes mindboggling , was nonetheless convincing . |
| 11 | The remarkable feature of Kallibunker 's fur was that it completely lacked the usual long guard hairs found on all other cats . |
| 12 | The man 's story was that she had told him she did not feel at all well , and he had told her to lie down on the sofa in the living room . |
| 13 | ‘ Mathilde 's story was that Hasan made the fatal mistake of falling in love with one of the kidnapped virgins . |
| 14 | Beales 's story was that he met his friend in the pub just after 1 p.m . |
| 15 | The enquiry 's finding was that John Piper had not been dishonest — he had been negligent , imprudent and irresponsible . |
| 16 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 17 | The jubilant word from Kinnock 's camp was that Major was behaving more like an opposition leader than a prime minister . |
| 18 | De Gaulle 's hope was that France 's withdrawal from NATO would act as a catalyst and speed up the process of change within both blocs . |
| 19 | Labour 's promise in last August 's election was that it would turn its prodigeous energies to social services in its second term . |
| 20 | As reported , the terms of Somare 's election were that he would lead the party until March 1993 , whereupon the leadership would then be transferred to former Minister of Forests Jack Genia . |
| 21 | The committee 's verdict was that the family should be socially boycotted and the man not permitted to marry again ; punishment enough in an Indian village . |
| 22 | According to Andrew , Eleanor 's verdict was that a woman would act less wisely if she chose the less worthy one . |
| 23 | Margaret Cole 's verdict was that the evacuation scheme had been drawn up by minds that were ‘ military , male and middle-class ’ . |
| 24 | The coroner 's verdict was that Mr Bamford killed himself and died from shock due to burns . |
| 25 | professional advice about Elizabeth 's unhappiness was that she was in a state of ‘ mourning ’ and that time would improve matters . |
| 26 | One effect of the nation 's defeat was that many of the elements of ‘ Japanese spirit ’ , as well as the individuals who had most vocally espoused them , were discredited . |
| 27 | This final scene of the novel leaves the reader free to believe , if he so wishes , that Pip and Estella will eventually marry , but it seems clear that CD 's intention was that we should understand that Pip 's renewed hopes were not to be fulfilled . |
| 28 | Edward III 's intention was that the Black Prince 's campaign in Aquitaine should be accompanied by an expedition to Brittany under Lancaster and an invasion of Normandy led by Charles of Navarre , king of the small Pyrenean kingdom lying between Aquitaine and Castile . |
| 29 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 30 | No , the sole reason for changing one 's mind was that the newspapers and television told one that lots of other people had done so . |