Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overriding criticism of the National Curriculum proposals was that it was not designed to achieve significant fundamental aims : it did not obviously focus upon ‘ great issues , principles and values ’ , or on the development of fundamentally important attitudes and skills , which educators , industrialists , and all those concerned with the welfare of society and the enrichment of the individual , would see as paramount . |
| 2 | The lesson Haslam learned from his ICI experience was that wherever possible redundancy should be on a voluntary basis if the trauma were to be kept to a minimum . |
| 3 | The requirement of the old London Building Acts was that an area of window equal to at least 10 per cent of its floor area should be provided to light a habitable room . |
| 4 | The covert reasons why the scheme drew widespread support from Cardiff solicitors was that it was part of an internal power struggle . |
| 5 | The press version of the events at Lambeth Baths was that the meeting had been rowdy . |
| 6 | Until recently a problem with handwriting recognition was that the tablet on which the writing took place and the screen on which it was displayed were physically separated . |
| 7 | Another feature of the courts reorganization was that the Department was no longer located only in London . |
| 8 | Erm the point about the regional census study was that it did a reasonably good job of analyzing the present situation , but not a very good job of the projections . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 11 | As Brian Harrison has remarked , one of the main reasons for the bitterness of the suffrage struggle was that so many on both sides had roots in the philanthropic world . |
| 12 | Another difficulty in the Gouriet case was that the applicant sought an injunction to restrain a threatened breach of the criminal law . |
| 13 | The main point to make about the Programme Authorities was that their total allocations from the Urban Programme were very small . |
| 14 | To Welford Beaton the great weakness of the movie industry was that it had been ‘ born without reasoning faculties ’ and had failed subsequently to develop any : since birth , he suggested , the industry had ‘ allowed the box-office to do its thinking for it ’ . |
| 15 | One Revenue contention was that payments were made under a settlement within TA 1988 , s683 because the transactions were not bona fide commercial transactions . |
| 16 | The impression left with the chairman of the Liaison Committee was that the use made by the broadcasters of televised proceedings had been ‘ balanced and interesting ’ . |
| 17 | One of the key articles of faith in United States deregulation was that ‘ prices should move towards costs ’ . |
| 18 | Indeed , one of the key features of the Nottinghamshire initiative was that it occurred in somewhat of a policy vacuum . |
| 19 | Continuing with our high profile er lunches , there was another objective , objective , overall objective of raising the profile of the office and finally , within that heading our action point was that er we would look at partner representation on various various bodies , not only partner representation , senior staff representation on various bodies . |
| 20 | The problem with this poisoning business was that the preliminary research was horribly incriminating . |
| 21 | Yet the thing which struck her most of all here in the drawing room was that Harriet seemed to have a passion for photographs . |
| 22 | And she knew now that the worst accusation to be levelled against such women as Marie Moon was that they found " all that " much more than simply worthwhile . |
| 23 | A condition of the Daily Mail prize was that no serving pilot could win it , and so on March 10 , 1919 Jack was demobbed , ending his service career with the rank of Captain , he was now free to pursue this latest flying challenge . |
| 24 | But the basic discovery of the Detroit mentality was that a design did not have to be better engineered , more functional or more beautiful than what was already on the market in order to outsell it ; it just had to be newer . |
| 25 | One of the printed conditions of sale in the auction catalogue was that no warranty was given in respect of any animal sold . |
| 26 | One of the pleasures of Saturday working was that the phone did not ring all the time . |
| 27 | Well it 's it 's on on the sane vein , just like the machine tool association competition was that the apprentices went in for . |
| 28 | Although Mr Patten 's headline message was that no conditions should be attached to MFN at all , his actual text was more subtle . |
| 29 | The advantage of a pillbox line was that it could be held with fewer men who could , therefore , be rotated more frequently : another morale-boosting factor . |
| 30 | The explanation given for this splitting of conception from execution with large batch sizes was that ‘ the smaller the batch size is , the greater is the need for frequent conversion of machines to new tools , fixtures and parts programmes , and the less is machine-setting expertise differentiated from operating ’ ( Sorge et al. 1983 , 150 ) . |