Example sentences of "was that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her argument was that the subjects of the old master paintings could be disregarded by a painter who wished to find lessons for the present in the artistic practice of the past . |
| 2 | As to genius , ‘ Reynolds ’ opinion was that Genius may be taught & that all Pretense to Inspiration is a Lie & a Deceit , to say the least of it . |
| 3 | How such as Donald Judd and Robert Smithson , was that they saw ‘ a false and pious rationality ’ as ‘ the enemy of art ’ . |
| 4 | Another consequence of the labelling of Impressionism and other groups by critics was that some artists naturally decided that they themselves could do the same job better than the critics . |
| 5 | What the anthropologist Jacques Maquet knew was that a few weeks after finishing this sombre painting , Rothko committed suicide . |
| 6 | It is possible to imagine that for some people such consolation might make it easier to reconcile the two , and to wonder what it was that made the difference in Fraser 's case . |
| 7 | And so it was that Ursula met Justin , the writer 's moody adolescent brother , and ran away with him . |
| 8 | T. Behrens is considerably baffled by this strange case , by the question of what it was that determined Ursula 's adherence to this programme , and of what it was that caused her to bring to an end her loving friendship with Justin . |
| 9 | What changed with the partition of Ireland in 1920 was that the two dominant alliances were internally reorganized . |
| 10 | A main real difference in the experience which marked it off from fundamentalist and some pentecostal forms of conversion experience was that the outcome was not the assurance of being saved , but rather a spirituality of trust in Christ based on repentance and the conviction that God forgives repentant sinners . |
| 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 | An important aspect of the successful implementation of these parts of the constitution was that the political opposition did not object to them . |
| 13 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 14 | It was argued that the pattern in other countries was that laws permitting divorce followed social trends in the numbers of marriage breakdowns rather than vice versa and that the fears of societal breakdown promoted by opponents in Ireland were unfounded in fact . |
| 15 | The result was that the union became subordinated for some time to the hierarchy and a breakaway union of protestant teachers was formed . |
| 16 | The consequence of having such large schools with small protestant catchment areas was that those funded from the state had to make up numbers by accepting non-protestants . |
| 17 | The reason given was that children would not be religiously and educationally prepared for the reception of Holy Communion and Confirmation because they had not been educated at a catholic school , irrespective of their parents ' alternative provisions : in one area , parents had set up their own Sunday schools as an alternative . |
| 18 | The prohibitionist thinking which affected America in the 1920s was not without supporters in Britain , and the practical result in architecture was that pubs emphasised their domestic image , and encouraged the serving of more food , as against the all-male tradition of ‘ vertical drinking ’ at a bar . |
| 19 | Sergeant Bramble and Constable Quince very quickly gave up trying to understand what it was that the experts were looking for . |
| 20 | Ethel 's silent opinion was that Thomas 's strong point lay very much lower down than his brain . |
| 21 | His biggest problem was that because of the way things work in academic life , regardless of whether or not I changed my lectures from one year to the next , I was just about unsackable . |
| 22 | ‘ What was that Anne kept telling you ? |
| 23 | One thing I can remember about that evening was that I could n't eat anything . |
| 24 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 25 | What I did n't discover until recently was that it provides a bonus for organic gardeners . |
| 26 | The only logical conclusion was that they should go to bed . |
| 27 | What I did n't realise was that her holiday started the day after she 'd had dinner with me , she was going to Italy to look at churches with her beloved son . |
| 28 | Let Lucy articulate , lay herself on whatever uncomfortable line it was that she had elected to draw . |
| 29 | And she knew how urgent and fervent their kisses had been , how close Lucy had been to abandoning whatever it was that held her back , made her withhold her beautiful body . |
| 30 | What the hell was that kiss about in the middle of all this ? |