Example sentences of "[that] [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may not be going too far to suggest that Laski was the primary conduit through which early twentieth-century developments in American legal thought were filtered into British public law thought . |
| 2 | In practice , by 1975 , the resistance to this approach proved so great that settlement was the real objective , with the justification that farming families could be supported in every way — agriculturally , medically and educationally — much more effectively on a group basis . |
| 3 | The survey found that burglary was the most common crime , affecting 45pc , followed by vandalism ( 31pc ) . |
| 4 | It hit me just how right Anne had been when she said that teaching was the only job I knew — and how horribly ill-equipped I was for anything else . |
| 5 | There was indeed something bizarre about the idea that protection was the way to unite the Conservative Party . |
| 6 | At an early age , Ybreska had seen through the myth and realized that money was the sole power which kept the Earth turning . |
| 7 | And he believed that luck was the reward of diligence . |
| 8 | This was despite the fact that physics was the most boring subject at school because it was so easy and obvious . |
| 9 | In his chairman 's report for the 1947 season , Rawlins Hawtin recorded the comment made to him , during the match with Surrey at Peterborough , by Herbert Strudwick , who ‘ volunteered his opinion that Fiddling was the best wicketkeeper in England ’ . |
| 10 | Was that conclusive evidence that insanity was the salary of meddling with necromancy ? |
| 11 | I was the first to state that reunification was the best option ( and I quote from an Institute minute ) ‘ provided the RIBA can show that Portland Place can be adapted for the successful functioning of all departments . ’ |
| 12 | Aristotle claimed that tragedy was the imitation of an action and that character was an important but supplementary consideration . |
| 13 | In this he was probably hoping to answer those who had claimed that fear was the cause of his failure to appear during the campaign at Valencia . |
| 14 | This can be justified by the fact that Keynesianism was the accepted dominant macro-intellectual tradition and that in this tradition a key role , if not the key role , is the manipulation of fiscal policy weapons to achieve economy-wide targets . |
| 15 | But I did know that Gyggle was the shrink for me the minute I saw him . |
| 16 | Years later Simenon put La Caque into a Maigret novel , characterising its members as so jaded by drink , sex and drugs that murder was the obvious next step . |
| 17 | If , on the other hand , one accepts Tyacke 's argument that predestination was the one mainstream belief down to 1625 , the Arminians were responsible for an unprecedented attack on a well-established orthodoxy , and their activities accordingly met with great hostility and resistance . |
| 18 | Jason was quite firm that marriage was the last thing he wanted . |
| 19 | Sir Philip Sidney 's claim in The Defence of Poetry that poetry was the consequence of art , imitation , and exercise may stand as much as an observation about who was able to produce poetry during the Renaissance as how it should be produced . |
| 20 | It shared the view of the Policy Advisory Committee that ‘ the primary aim of the law against incest is the protection of the young and vulnerable against sexual exploitation within the family and rejected the idea that eugenics was the law 's principal justification . |
| 21 | The case of street robbery is particularly interesting , because this is commonly the most sensitive area for registering public concern about crime and violence , itself reflected in the fact that robbery-with-violence was the only common offence for which an adult offender could be sentenced to whipping before the abolition of corporal punishment in 1948 . |
| 22 | The ATB records indicated that as much as 70% of all training was undertaken during the winter and it was therefore assumed that winter was the most suitable season for training . |
| 23 | Neisser ( 1982 ) also argued that it was not necessary to propose a separate memory system for flashbulb memories , he suggested that rehearsal was the most important component of the phenomenon , noting particularly that such memories are not necessarily veridical , instead he emphasised the role such memories may play as a connection between personal and public history . |
| 24 | By early 1832 the insurrection in Jamaica had so underlined in many abolitionists ' minds the presumption that slavery was the source of social disorder they unambiguously demanded ‘ nothing short of the total and immediate Abolition of British Colonial Slavery ’ . |
| 25 | THE Government 's ‘ I 'm backing winners ’ policy emphasised that competitiveness was the way to achieve real economic growth , according to Secretary of State Peter Brooke . |
| 26 | When Clausewitz described war as ‘ the continuation of policy by other means ’ , Lenin also understood this to mean that peace was the continuation of war by other means . |
| 27 | ‘ There is no doubt in my mind that diesel was the right decision for us , ’ he says . |
| 28 | Thus Weber claimed to show that Calvinism was the independent variable that was present in Europe and absent in China and India , and was one of the important causes of the appearance of the dependent variable of capitalism . |
| 29 | However , this was not due to any genuine belief in pacifism ; Franco , after all , believed that war was the normal human condition . |
| 30 | Where flows are heavy , segregation would be the norm ; elsewhere integration with vehicular traffic in calmed areas would be perfectly acceptable , provided that safety was the principal criterion and that directness of route was in no way compromised . |