Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | One excuse given was that the authorities did not want Blake to associate with another spy which would have happened if he had been transferred to Birmingham prison . |
| 2 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 3 | The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d . |
| 4 | The second criterion adopted was that the measures should be recoverable from data collected in the field and easily verifiable . |
| 5 | In the present case the position when Mrs. Dennis died was that her husband had not yet been adjudicated bankrupt . |
| 6 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 7 | Another issue raised was that Europe was not just a commercial union but a global power bloc which would need to consider external relations outside Europe . |
| 8 | It says that it is the counsel of the witan determined upon as soon as Cnut and his witan established peace and friendship between Danes and English , and that one of the first things the witan decided was that they would zealously observe Edgar 's law and " investigate further at leisure what was necessary for the nation , as best they could " . |
| 9 | What Yves meant was that in every act , in every gesture in the game , there is a degree of aggression . |
| 10 | In Permanent Magnets ( 1962 ) , the benefit identified was that the absence of price competition had encouraged technical collaboration between the firms , giving purchasers the benefits of both lower costs and a range of suppliers . |
| 11 | My note indicates that what Mr Curtis said was that on a pro rata to their existing |
| 12 | What Wagener 's Law suggested was that the expansion of public services reflected the ‘ exigencies of industrialisation ’ — as a nation industrialises it develops needs for collectively provided goods such as roads , sewers transport , and so on . |
| 13 | A further point made was that the larger political and economic context must be considered by those involved in community economic development . |
| 14 | The only major critical point made was that it is difficult , particularly in broadly-based courses , for one ECA to have subject expertise across the full range of units . |
| 15 | The aim was to give an impression of the atmosphere of the line and its district A particular point made was that the BCRS wishes to contact people who worked on the line or have other personal reminiscences of it . |
| 16 | The conclusion drawn was that it was the fact that the group was working as a team that was important . |
| 17 | The only interesting point to emerge was that the Roman ditch continued an almost certainly unbroken course northwards past the medieval gate and its street to terminate 5.5 m ( 18 ft ) beyond them , while both the early rampart and the Roman wall continued for an unknown distance beyond this end of the ditch . |
| 18 | The premise on which African governments worked was that if capital could not be had on highly concessional terms it was better to accept it on terms more or less defined by the donors . |
| 19 | However , none of the scaled-up versions of the models on test could survive the strength of the waves whose energy they sought to exploit and the conclusion reached was that the modifications needed to make them sufficiently strong would render them cost uncompetitive . |
| 20 | This was specifically endorsed by Lord Pearce in Esso where he explained that what Lord MacNaghten meant was that the adequacy of consideration was a key to oppression and that oppression is a key to reasonableness . |
| 21 | All that the loyalists knew was that their very own Special Constabulary was going to be dismantled and that this had been one of NICRA 's long-standing demands . |
| 22 | He may have created some drama , but the only thing the scenario proved was that Bowe does n't want to fight Lennox . |
| 23 | The sharpest criticism levelled was that the collection amounted to little more than a reshuffling . |
| 24 | One conclusion to emerge from a recent conference at which the Italians and Egyptians met was that the existing Cairo Egyptian Museum should be maintained . |
| 25 | What Gordon found was that the passages rewritten by the class containing the most poor readers were the ones which were subsequently found to be the most comprehensible . |
| 26 | The only significant power of veto retained was that over bills to prolong the life of a Parliament . |
| 27 | What Emerson demonstrated was that her younger children had difficulty in using the causal connective as a clue to the temporal order of the events described . |
| 28 | Most people thought he looked like a tramp with his habit of tying his trousers up with string , but the first thing that all the dancers noticed was that he had big , flat feet . |
| 29 | The sad fact is that although the ostensible reason for the dolphin kills was that dolphins were stealing and eating the commercial fish species , examination of their stomach contents showed that only the false killer whales were actually feeding on yellowtail . |
| 30 | In fact , what Fischer observed was that the fishes operate a system of pretty strict alternation . |