Example sentences of "was that it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Tristano 's was an improvised music , and part of its quality was that it was n't as flashy and virtuosic as bebop . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The final irony was that it was unnecessary , anyway . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The thing that attracted me was that it was n't your average plonk , plonk , three cord amateur musician . |
| 12 | The overwhelming advantage of an electric railway was that it was cheaper to run and maintain . |
| 13 | My view was that it was enough to clear it with the Chancellor of the Exchequer and that she had a war to fight . |
| 14 | One possibility was that it was Roman material introduced when the drain walls had collapsed , for the drain had been cut through Roman deposits . |
| 15 | One popular theory was that it was propagated by the miasma which hung about the damp , insanitary places such as overcrowded burial grounds . |
| 16 | The advantage of their ‘ straight road ’ , according to Donald Maclean was that it was hard to get lost by following it . |
| 17 | Priestley 's warning was that it was essentially a cheat . |
| 18 | The second was that it was a farm , run by Americans , on which various types of crops were being grown experimentally . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The final ignominy was that it was the Environment Department not MAFF that now had to provide public justification . |
| 22 | The UK 's objection to the proposed Directive was that it was ‘ unreasonably restrictive ’ to designate large river catchments ‘ simply because , for a short period of time in the autumn , the water may temporarily exceed 50 mg/litre although throughout the rest of the year it will be well below that figure . ’ |
| 23 | What he really meant was that it was not in his interest or that of the intelligence services involved . |
| 24 | One of the several results was that it was very beneficial to fifteen actors like himself and eight directors who were ‘ hot ’ , and five good writers . |
| 25 | The party 's problem was that it was a Catholic organisation and could not see the class basis of the problems . |
| 26 | The first , simplest , and strongest argument was that it was wrong and unnecessary to place eleven-year-olds in separate schools . |
| 27 | One of the advantages of scheduling one 's own bereavement was that it was far easier to respond in a mature , caring way to one 's partner 's decease . |
| 28 | The only thing was that it was n't Noreen . |
| 29 | ‘ He lost it , and all I can remember was that it was about a star . ’ |
| 30 | One thing that struck me about this contraceptive suggestion was that it was being made by people who totally disapproved of all experimentation on animals . |