Example sentences of "[unc] [noun sg] was [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Crown 's case was that the men were found by the police in a public lavatory behaving indecently towards each other . |
| 2 | Berg 's case was that the unqualified report by the auditors gave the company an opportunity to continue to carry on business and to borrow money from third parties . |
| 3 | The committee 's verdict was that the family should be socially boycotted and the man not permitted to marry again ; punishment enough in an Indian village . |
| 4 | Margaret Cole 's verdict was that the evacuation scheme had been drawn up by minds that were ‘ military , male and middle-class ’ . |
| 5 | Edward III 's intention was that the Black Prince 's campaign in Aquitaine should be accompanied by an expedition to Brittany under Lancaster and an invasion of Normandy led by Charles of Navarre , king of the small Pyrenean kingdom lying between Aquitaine and Castile . |
| 6 | No , the sole reason for changing one 's mind was that the newspapers and television told one that lots of other people had done so . |
| 7 | But the fear that nagged MI6 's mind was that the Russians had captured Crabb alive and might produce him to tell the full story . |
| 8 | Kossuth 's tragedy was that the very fervour of his nationalism made him so intolerant of other ethnic groups within Hungary , that he damaged the cause he sought to promote . |
| 9 | Mr. Lloyd 's submission was that the reference to the price was a sham . |
| 10 | The heart of Forsyth 's theology was that the holiness of God needed to deal drastically with the sin of humanity ; his sermon on the Holy Father ( 1897 ) marked a focal point in his life . |
| 11 | Bacon 's contention was that the theologian had to know the things of this world if he wished to understand the Scriptures . |
| 12 | Smith 's reflection was that the work : |
| 13 | Bukharin 's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distinct tasks . |
| 14 | Holloway 's stipulation was that the picture collection was ‘ to decorate the walls of the college ’ which is arguably still relevant unless the college risks bankruptcy or physical collapse , neither of which is the case today . |
| 15 | The Court 's opinion was that the summons should go forward . |
| 16 | For the conclusion reached by Dunham 's team was that the Sun has indeed been shrinking and that its radius — or , strictly speaking , half the measured angular diameter — has contracted by 0.34 seconds of arc over 264 years . |
| 17 | In Cherry 's case the magistrate 's conclusion was that the delay was extreme but justifiable and there was no prejudice . |
| 18 | Hubble 's conclusion was that the universe was expanding — a conclusion that could be described in terms of Einstein 's theory of relativity , which provided the mathematics for describing the ‘ fabric ’ of space . |
| 19 | Break 's conclusion was that the net effect of taxation rates ‘ be it disincentive or incentive , is not large enough to be of great economic or sociological significance ’ . |
| 20 | Likert 's conclusion was that the style of supervision is more important in achieving better results than any more general factors such as job interest , loyalty towards the company etc. ( however , it remains true that employees must receive rewards ( pay etc ) which give them compensation for their efforts . |
| 21 | The ballistic expert 's evidence was that the defendant 's gun was fitted with a hammer block safety mechanism , which was in proper working order , so that it could only be fired if the trigger was fully pressed back . |
| 22 | One of the contradictions in Minton 's character was that the anti-authoritarian rebel remained wedded to a person who needed to belong and who , schooled by his grandmother , was in certain situations an upholder of convention and correct form . |
| 23 | The NUM 's accurate interpretation of the NCB 's strategy was that the latter intended to concentrate production on a relatively small number of ‘ superpits ’ in the most productive fields , which it would achieve by changes in work practices and pay schemes and by closing those pits which it defined as ‘ uneconomic ’ . |
| 24 | Initially it seemed that much of the children 's disaffection was because the curriculum was so irrelevant to them . |
| 25 | Edward 's trouble was that the tell-tales he was looking for , the subtle marks of treachery , were the main — and open — subject of the conversation . |
| 26 | The trial is so entangled with the standing of the ANC that the right-wing Conservative Party has blamed the ‘ state intelligence service ’ for the disappearance of an important state witness ; the party 's argument was that the government wanted to persuade whites of the virtue of negotiations with the ANC , and found the trial embarrassing . |
| 27 | The United Kingdom 's argument was that the Company had entered into the agreement on behalf of the United Kingdom as part of that State 's obligations towards the settlement of the dispute . |
| 28 | A factor in the wife 's favour was that the previous publican had provided no food . |
| 29 | Tolkien 's suggestion was that the Faculty should reform its syllabus , giving space far a proper study of the Old English poets . |
| 30 | Mackintosh 's suggestion was that the value of α ( i.e. the associability of the CS ) might be determined not only by the intrinsic qualities of the stimulus ( such as its intensity ) but also by the animal 's past experience with the stimulus . |