Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ziegler ( 1978 ) , in his discussion of the Mass Observation records on the coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953 , records that the two most commonly cited reasons for supporting the coronation were that it created wealth and that it united the nation . |
| 2 | The particular benefits of this approach for this study were that it provided quantitative data on important treatment/intervention issues in a population where group-comparison studies alone would be inappropriate , because of the individual nature of each person 's challenging behaviour and the small number of potential subjects . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A major part of the paper 's thinking was that it could employ people who would have been good journalists if they had pursued journalism as a conventional career . |
| 5 | One of the main advantages of video as an aid was that it could be used during poor weather . |
| 6 | A feature of early denudation chronology was that it tended to concentrate upon particular areas and that the record deduced for those areas tended to exercise an unduly significant influence upon the way in which new areas were interpreted . |
| 7 | ‘ I guess their reasoning was that it would add to my experience . |
| 8 | committee did draw distinction between the two different kinds of schemes , erm perhaps if I could just ask you what do you think of the committee the Good reports er conclusion on training for trustees where they er the recommendation was that it was a laudable objective , but should not be made compulsory ? |
| 9 | The discussion that Richard and I had , my recommendation was that it was not a big enough thing to cover a separate procedure for . |
| 10 | The result was that it had been increased only twice and now stood at the princely sum of £30 . |
| 11 | For many years I have experience severe rain leakage through the canvas tilt on my Series III.1 once made the mistake of coating another vehicle 's tilt with polyurethane paint but the result was that it hung in tatters within a year as it became brittle . |
| 12 | The result was that it then became possible to record the data on a continuous re-circulating loop of tape that would last for 25 hours before being erased and used again . |
| 13 | The significance of that result was that it was only Wales 's third win in five seasons in the competition . |
| 14 | South African captain Kepler Wessels 's verdict on his side 's 107-run defeat was that it was difficult to go straight into an international match without a warm-up game . |
| 15 | However , it was certainly the case that girls ( like their mothers ) were seen as ‘ helpers ’ and ‘ guides ’ to men and to families , and the significance of the club was that it could show them how to overcome their ‘ understandable selfishness ’ and reveal ‘ the beauty of unselfish devotion to others ’ . |
| 16 | Matters were not helped by the Sabina Park authorities providing one sightscreen that was too low to be of much use if the bowler was over six feet ( 1.8 metres ) tall , and when England complained after the game against Jamaica the reply was that it could not be raised without obscuring the view of some two hundred people who had already bought tickets . |
| 17 | The irony was that it was the British Labour Party which now responded more sympathetically towards Europe , since the social charter of the Community , drafted by its French socialist president , Jacques Delors , was in most respects highly congenial to the British left . |
| 18 | The final irony was that it was unnecessary , anyway . |
| 19 | It is understood that a key factor in the failure of the Channel 4-IMG bid was that it would have required games to be played at certain times , a condition which was unacceptable to the players and FIDE . |
| 20 | A special feature of this part of the programme was that it regularly included a section with about six brief items , averaging 20–30 seconds in duration , including sound bites of 10–20 seconds . |
| 21 | Its only real fault was that it was ahead of its time . |
| 22 | The conclusions of one other major research was that it had substantial social implication of personal family in community lives so these papers were discussed in great detail . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Talk was that it would be out by last autumn . |
| 25 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 26 | The beauty of Indirect Rule was that it created an administrative situation in which personal influence was , in theory at any rate , the administrator 's only resource . |
| 27 | What was new about the Ro-railer was that it could be used on both rails and road . |
| 28 | One of the advantages of scheduling one 's own bereavement was that it was far easier to respond in a mature , caring way to one 's partner 's decease . |
| 29 | Another effect was that it engineered a prevailing mood of despair about the quality of urban and industrial life which in turn bred a determination to rebuild and sweep away the past when the time came — which it did , in the 1940s when town planning was able to assume the mantle of the new provider . |
| 30 | Ken Pitt : ‘ But the big value of that album was that it brought David 's work to the attention of a lot of important people . |