Example sentences of "was that [pron] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The general opinion was yes , but certain it was that no-one had ever seen her . |
| 2 | Sean ( Hallam ) Blowers chips in : ‘ The brilliant thing about Backdraft was that no-one had actually done a film about firemen before . ’ |
| 3 | But whatever the reason , whether it was that everyone had been so busy reassuring everyone that no one had bothered to talk to the crematorium , whether they had got the time wrong , or whether the vicar had simply had a brainstorm , he now , you could tell , was dimly aware that he had not given an exemplary performance . |
| 4 | One slight advantage of all this was that nobody had time to consider the fate of L Detachment . |
| 5 | The alarming thing was that what had started as a lively discussion , had somehow gone sour on the two girls . |
| 6 | The result was that what had been a small-sized cheap labour force became a large well-paid labour force . |
| 7 | The dignifying characteristic of the professions was that they had their own codes of ethics . |
| 8 | The problem was that they had , but they had not come back . |
| 9 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 10 | An added advantage that the deaf people of Glasgow had over any other deaf community in the country was that they had a regular ‘ Deaf and Dumb Notes ’ column every week in the Glasgow Evening Times , the largest selling Scottish evening paper . |
| 11 | The reason for this was that they had a different view of tradition from the locals and this caused them to turn to ‘ progressivist ’ ideas and to new ventures put forward by planners in order to effect an entry upon the local political scene . |
| 12 | Their opponents ' difficulty was that they had not even read the original patent . |
| 13 | Or the jurors could have taken the path they did in fact elect , which was to go to the very heart of the matter and conclude that these officers were only doing what they have been trained to do and that all the famous video footage demonstrated was that they had indeed gone by the book . |
| 14 | Their problem was that they had only one sanction with the British government and that was a general strike . |
| 15 | What our friends did not realise was that they had to travel through Blea Moor Tunnel . |
| 16 | Even when the study appeared , there was a great deal of scepticism within NoS , but the attitude was that they had consulted the experts and got the evidence . |
| 17 | All he knew about Somerset was that they had a cricket team and that the yokels drank cider and pronounced it ‘ zyder ’ . |
| 18 | The problem for the British was that they had seriously miscalculated their own positions . |
| 19 | All he remembered was that they had flown on an invisible road in the sky called Red One from Moscow to St Petersburg at 33,000 feet . |
| 20 | The tragedy of the industry was that they had won the battle only by turning their back on the price mechanism : a procedure for resource allocation which , arguably , is the best medium for the decentralisation of decision making to firms in the modern economy . |
| 21 | The consequence of this policy ( already well established in many areas before nationalisation ) was that they had a virtual monopoly of electric cooker sales , other retailers finding the trade unattractive . |
| 22 | The reason that the protest was n't accepted by the courts in this country was that they had not protested with equivalent vigour at an earlier stage when the looted antiquities first appeared on the market . |
| 23 | The common feature of all members of the Town Boys group was that they had all held dominant roles within the Rowdies group or its equivalent at some stage in their careers . |
| 24 | What was evident was that they had all expected Comrade Andrew to join them , even Alice , who knew he disapproved . |
| 25 | The reason that Schrödinger 's and Heisenberg 's versions of quantum mechanics had seemed at first sight different from each other ( see p. 14 ) was that they had chosen to use contrasting extreme possibilities . |
| 26 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 27 | In effect , the message being sent to John and the other hostages was that they had to keep a stiff upper lip and hope that , one day , the kidnappers might let them go . |
| 28 | Another difficulty for local authorities was that they had not developed a culture of objective evaluation ; few used good research methods to evaluate the costs and benefits of innovative schemes . |
| 29 | A recurrent criticism of historical approaches in physical geography up to the 1950s was that they had insufficient knowledge of environmental processes to fall back upon which could enhance the understanding of landscape . |
| 30 | For professional development teachers the result was that they had only been able to learn through personal experience and had thus done so more slowly than was necessary : |