Example sentences of "[was/were] that all " in BNC.
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| 1 | A spokesman for IG Index said the indications were that all 10 water companies would ‘ generate healthy profits ’ when trading opened next Tuesday morning . |
| 2 | The inclusion criteria were that all subjects were current residents of Busselton , aged between 40 and 65 years in December 1990 , had been randomly selected except for a deliberate male to female bias for the purposes of the sleep study , and serum available from 1969 and 1990 . |
| 3 | Among the most striking of its findings were that all those surveyed said they had more confidence in statements on biotechnology made by environment and consumers ' groups than in those issuing from government or industry . |
| 4 | No one present would have disputed that but the feeling was that all we had seen was the closing of one chapter of a story in which there is much more to come . |
| 5 | But it was in the air for a second reason also : for one striking feature of the years 1929–31 was that all three parties were deeply divided . |
| 6 | The main problem was that all the furniture had to be scaled down to suit the smaller stature of the Japanese and to fit their smaller homes . |
| 7 | What he discovered in his ‘ regress ’ was that all these things were echoes of the heavenly places . |
| 8 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 9 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 10 | The main problem with MI6 at the time was that all the senior people were amateurs who had joined MI6 only because they had gone to the right school , wore the right sort of tie and dined at the right clubs . |
| 11 | More incredible was that all of this violence , all of this blood and gore , all of this inhumanity and human sacrifice was being conducted in the corner of our living rooms , because suddenly it was also the nightly fodder of the television stations , who were only just realizing the potential of on-the-spot coverage of such despicable yet compelling viewing matter . |
| 12 | They valued their independence , and one of the persuasive recommendations of the Report was that all schools should — as John Newsom had secured in Hertfordshire — be given as much freedom as possible in determining their priorities and policies . |
| 13 | His consistent wish until very very late in his course was that all conceivable medical measures be carried out . |
| 14 | However , the most important power was that all designated districts could declare Industrial Improvement Areas . |
| 15 | The answer received was that all people who have lived in that area have imprinted their personalities on the chalk , which in origin is organic , and that he was picking this up : ‘ As a sensitive , you replay , like a gramophone record , everything that has been recorded on the chalk ! |
| 16 | One of his rules , which Miss Claybury could not contest , was that all patients must be spoken to kindly , but it was hard to make himself heard above the noise . |
| 17 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 18 | The Conference 's working assumption was that all incursions from Lagos were to be resisted ; the reason invariably given was that only the Residents had enough knowledge and experience of the mysteries of Indirect Rule to be entrusted with its execution . |
| 19 | Our initial reaction to our brief in respect of bilingual pupils was that all pupils must have access to the same attainment targets and programmes of study for English . |
| 20 | That was that all the fame in the world meant bloody all to him . |
| 21 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 22 | The ironical thing was that all the time , in a stack in Hilbert 's desk , secured by a rubber band , were fifty or so old postcards collected by Hilbert and Lilian presumably on early travels and among them were two of Greece , one of Mount Lycabettos and the other the very view Rufus had spoken of so scathingly . |
| 23 | Equally important to the maintenance of Labour 's new-found unity in the closing stages of the war was that all leading figures now sensed the possibility of major political advances after the war . |
| 24 | One was that all people knew about me was that I was making trouble about the caravan site and a lot of them assumed that because it was at the bottom of my own garden , I must naturally be on ‘ their side ’ , whatever my political colour : that is , I wanted the site disbanded . |
| 25 | The principal conclusion of the study was that all three of the series of square-headed brooches which were isolated ( two of silver and one of copper-alloy ) , the majority of keystone garnet inlaid disc brooches , of silver , and at least some of the garnet inlaid buckle plates , some of silver and some of copper alloy , are the products of a single workshop . |
| 26 | What was clear from my own research and experience was that all of these ‘ crazes ’ or student ‘ tides ’ , along with a few others , existed side by side in 1988 . |
| 27 | My big problem was that all my files , containing the text of my books , articles , notes and so on were on discs of the wrong size to run of any other computer — without expensive conversion . |
| 28 | And so it was that all Hollywood 's difficulties led somewhat accidentally to what Ralph A. Bauer has described as a period whose movies ‘ were perhaps as varied and intriguing ’ as the movies produced in any comparably short period in American history . |
| 29 | The result was that all one could see was dozens and dozens of blinking lights all over the sky . |
| 30 | In the UK the CAA , too , had been fully involved in every stage of the investigation , and so it was that all the necessary corrective measures were taken as far as the Boeing 707/300–400 series was concerned and the respective airworthiness authorities were fully informed . |