Example sentences of "was that all " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | What he discovered in his ‘ regress ’ was that all these things were echoes of the heavenly places . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | His consistent wish until very very late in his course was that all conceivable medical measures be carried out . |
| 11 | However , the most important power was that all designated districts could declare Industrial Improvement Areas . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That was that all the fame in the world meant bloody all to him . |
| 18 | The awful thing was that all this time Lewis had never had any doubts he was himself the new owner of Wyvis Hall . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The result was that all one could see was dozens and dozens of blinking lights all over the sky . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The revolutionary proposition was that all patients could live in community units outside the asylums , and that their placements could be funded from the revenue sunk into the big hospitals . |
| 29 | Of utmost significance was that all three judges upheld the finding that the critical sentence in the advertisement was misleading and deceptive and therefore was in breach of the Trade Practices Act . |
| 30 | One of his dicta was that all the forts had three periods . |