Example sentences of "[adj] was that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The corollary to this was that a unit operating according to such principles would have to be trained to arrive on the scene of an operation by every practical method from land , sea or air . |
| 2 | The upshot of this was that a number of companies pulled out of the timber-frame house-building market and the proportion of houses built by this method had dropped from 24 to 17 per cent by the beginning of 1984 , and is even less now . |
| 3 | This was that a proportion of the pool funding for General Medical Services would be redirected to practices in high demand , deprived areas . |
| 4 | Yet it was hard to believe that the explanation for all this was that a schoolboy was in the hands of devils . |
| 5 | What was made equally clear was that a solution which is realistic , lasting , and just is still awaited . |
| 6 | The second was that a large group of junk-bond investors — the savings and loan associations — had an extra leg-up into high-yield investment because of federal insurance of their source of cash , deposits . |
| 7 | The first was that the Iran of Ayatollah Khomeini could , in some sort , be reasonably dealt with ; the second was that a band of rag-tag guerrillas , the Nicaraguan contras , could save the West from Communism . |
| 8 | The BR spokesman said although the end of the direct service from Darlington to Hartlepool was bad news the good was that a new two-hourly service in each direction from Middlesbrough to York and then on to Leeds , Manchester and Liverpool will be introduced . |
| 9 | Part of the understanding between Anselm and the king at Laigle in July 1105 was that a new joint mission should be sent to Rome to effect a settlement by Christmas . |
| 10 | The Oakes Report , which appeared exactly one year after the setting-up of the committee , made a number of recommendations of which perhaps the most important was that an independent national body be set up with specific terms of reference to include the ‘ general oversight of the development of maintained higher education ’ and the responsibility to ‘ collect , analyse and present where appropriate in conjunction with the Department of Education and Science and the University Grants Committee information affecting the demand for and supply of higher education in the maintained sector ’ . |
| 11 | One was that an erroneous idea existed as to the structure of DNA . |
| 12 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 13 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
| 14 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 15 | What was certain was that an announcement of the take-up rate would cause Blue Arrow 's share price to fall , and would probably damage County 's reputation . |
| 16 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |