Example sentences of "was [that] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these perhaps the greatest was that at a stroke all the feckless local officials of whom Wilson complained so bitterly had been removed . |
| 2 | The worrying thing was that at no time did Leeds actually put together a great move which tore Sunderland apart . |
| 3 | The gist of Peron 's statement , shorn of its chauvinism and sanctimony , was that at an atomic energy plant on Huemul Island near San Carlos de Bariloche , Argentinian scientists had recently achieved the controlled liberation of atomic energy from thermonuclear reactions . |
| 4 | One indication of that was that at the request of the British , both sides agreed to stop the radio propaganda campaigns they have been waging against each other . |
| 5 | What was interesting about that was that at the time John Brown got into financial difficulties the banks and institutional shareholders took a tough but very constructive view that it was worth helping the company through a reconstruction rather than forcing it into liquidation , which had been an attitude prevalent some years earlier . |
| 6 | The problem for Sombro was that at the mere age of three , he was getting old before his time because of his rampant ways and , by the look of the scars on his face , ears and neck , he was n't finding it any easier to hold his own with the competition . |
| 7 | Only a desperate battle with the intruder prevented her becoming the seventh victim of the molester who was that at the top of the Melbourne police ‘ most wanted ’ list . |
| 8 | The incongruity was that at the same time he was convinced of retribution in this world . |
| 9 | The exhibition most deliberately linked to Columbus was that at the Musée Barbier-Mueller in Geneva , the catalogue for which is a magnificent book , written by eight authors , half of whose essays were translated into French ( Spanish and Catalan editions are available but not an English translation ) . |
| 10 | The result was that at the end of the decade British critics of the BFASS , few as they were , tried to draw together once again . |
| 11 | The outcome was that at the meeting on 18 November , the Cabinet : |
| 12 | One measure of the declining influence of the Soviet party was that at the last of three congresses several ruling parties ( the Yugoslav , Albanian , Chinese , Vietnamese and North Korean ) did not attend , and only sixty-one of the seventy-five parties present could be persuaded to sign the final communique without reservations although it made no reference to Soviet leadership of the movement and contained no explicit criticism of the Chinese . |
| 13 | The most noteworthy consequences of such an attitude was that at the same time as growing numbers of Latin Americans , particularly young people , were looking to Marxism for some kind of solution , the orthodox Communist parties were widely perceived to be inert and impotent . |
| 14 | The outcome was that at the end of June 1960 a Cuban delegation in Moscow was warmly received by Khrushchev himself , and was told by the Soviet premier that ’ the Soviet Union has only to press a button in any part of the Soviet Union for rockets from that country to fall on any other part of the planet ’ . |
| 15 | Another very important factor was that at the Boat Show the R Y A announced that it was taking responsibility for the national coordination of all activities er for sailors with special needs , that 's blind , deaf , disabled and there are many organizations who are working in this field but the R Y A is the coordinator . |