Example sentences of "[was/were] that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 2 | He defended himself vigorously in a series of letters , protesting — in this case to the journalist William Archer — that ‘ The very last charges I expected them to bring against a book concerned merely with the doom of hereditary temperament & unsuitable mating in marriage were that it was an attack on marriage in general , that it was immoral , & that characters who recant their opinions & come to a sad end were puppets invented to express my personal views in their talk . ’ |
| 3 | The two main reasons given for this were that it was too ambitious and it was too far removed from bureaux experience until too late in its development . |
| 4 | Suggestions were that it was to rendezvous with another English force crossing into the Middle March ; or to meet up with Dunbar on the East March and convince him to join Balliol actively . |
| 5 | Its corresponding defects were that it was almost insignificant in Europe , retained out-of-date weapons adequate only for colonial use , and paid little attention to training its senior officers for large-scale operations . |
| 6 | Professor Cunliffe 's conclusions were that it was the rising water-table and neglect of the drainage system which caused serious and periodic flooding , so leading to its abandonment . |
| 7 | The difficulties of this approach were that it was slow , time-consuming and could help very few . |
| 8 | The disadvantages of the Article were that it was perceived as dealing with ‘ representational ’ issues that were out of place in the Convention , that it undercut the position of non-liability of member States for treaties concluded by organisations , and that it placed excessive emphasis on the exceptional situation of the European Communities . |
| 9 | Her first thoughts were that it was a great shame to turn such a wonderful building into a restaurant and hotel . |
| 10 | cos I would always thought Marks were that it was one day |
| 11 | The spirit of papal statements throughout the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was that it was the duty of the state to oppose freedom of conscience in matters of religion and freedom of worship and to celebrate openly the worship of God ‘ in that way which he has shown to be his will ’ , namely Roman catholicism ( Leo XIII 1903 : 111–12 ) . |
| 12 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 13 | Tristano 's was an improvised music , and part of its quality was that it was n't as flashy and virtuosic as bebop . |
| 14 | It may be that the IRA , fearing informers , had gone to such lengths to restrict the knowledge of where the ‘ active service unit ’ was that it was unable to warn them that their presence was compromised . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The whole significance of that Budget was that it was designed to eliminate the need for , or the risk of , the monetisation of debt as a result of the level of Government expenditure in relation to the level of the national product . |
| 17 | As well as the pun , I 'm sure the reason Malcolm chose QT was that it was the postal code around where Steve — who was still the singer at this point — was staying . |
| 18 | The difficulty lay in the fact that what characterized their view of primitive society was that it was classless and free of exploitation , while the Marxist theory of society is built around the idea of class . |
| 19 | The final irony was that it was unnecessary , anyway . |
| 20 | The point we sought to make , Mr Smith , was that it was ludicrous to assume — as Ford has — that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car , and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again . |
| 21 | The thing that attracted me was that it was n't your average plonk , plonk , three cord amateur musician . |
| 22 | The overwhelming advantage of an electric railway was that it was cheaper to run and maintain . |
| 23 | My view was that it was enough to clear it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and that she had a war to fight . |
| 24 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 25 | One popular theory was that it was propagated by the miasma which hung about the damp , insanitary places such as overcrowded burial grounds . |
| 26 | The advantage of their ‘ straight road ’ , according to Donald Maclean was that it was hard to get lost by following it . |
| 27 | Priestley 's warning was that it was essentially a cheat . |
| 28 | The second was that it was a farm , run by Americans , on which various types of crops were being grown experimentally . |
| 29 | One reason why Bonn became the capital was that it was favoured by Konrad Adenauer , der alte Fuchs ( the Old Fox ) , the Federal Republic 's first post-war chancellor who had his political base in the North Rhineland . |
| 30 | 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 . |