Example sentences of "[verb] that [adj] [noun] was [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Second , we found that ill health was an important factor in the decision to retire early , although it was not possible to say whether or not it was the overriding factor . |
| 2 | Envoys of Offa , however , had arrived at the court of Charlemagne affirming that this rumour was the work of men who were enemies of both Charlemagne and Offa , and had gone on their way to Rome , accompanied by Frankish envoys , to reiterate Offa 's denial of a plot against Hadrian before the pope himself . |
| 3 | This is simply the modern individual equivalent of the psychoanalytic principle which holds that primal parricide was a consequence of a desire for incest with the mother . |
| 4 | To read of the confrontations between newspaper owners and their staff , or rather the unions which represent them , you might think that this technology was a recent phenomenon . |
| 5 | Upon finding the wreck the FORI hope to be able to identify the serial plates on the engines of the aircraft , proving that this aircraft was the mount of Saint-Exupery , thereby laying to rest the many mysteries and rumours that have over the years surrounded his death . |
| 6 | He had guessed that this place was a palace to her , and she wondered suddenly if she was a complete fool even to consider getting mixed up in his world , when it was so far removed from her own . |
| 7 | 60 per cent admitted that consuming sugar was a problem |
| 8 | Interim results for the first half to July 1991 revealed that this revamp was the only operation to increase sales and profits . |
| 9 | Realising that this experiment was a flop , Mr Rahal ordered two Lolas for the remainder of the season . |
| 10 | Some authors argued that such feedback was the primary signal for hunger while others argued that the signal came from elsewhere . |
| 11 | The location-factor school argued that regional policy was the most important cause of decentralization in the '60s because it was the factor most significantly correlated with change in manufacturing employment , that is , it matched the pattern of relative manufacturing growth most closely . |
| 12 | Stella Browne , the Canadian socialist feminist , argued that female desire was a powerful natural force and that women had a valid right to sexual enjoyment . |
| 13 | Many who belonged to the GLC traditions could see no reason to trust any institution of the local state , or to risk becoming dependent on it ; they argued that independent self-organization was the only way to effect changes in our lives . |
| 14 | Spencer argued that sexual difference was a product of mankind 's successful adaptation to social survival and that it should be understood in terms of women 's individual evolution being arrested earlier than men 's to permit the conservation of their energies for reproduction . |
| 15 | The Common Cause argued that coercive legislation was no substitute for tackling the more fundamental problems of poverty and men 's immorality which stimulated the prostitution trade . |
| 16 | In a negative sense , they argued that active citizenship was a healthy return to old values which had been submerged by passive reliance on the ‘ nanny state ’ . |
| 17 | I 've heard that this farm was a very busy place on Tuesday nights and Wednesday mornings and the kitchen would be piled high with eggs and butter . |
| 18 | Tom believed that any day was the day . |
| 19 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 20 | Dieulafoy believed that this lesion was an early stage of peptic ulceration , designating it ‘ Exulceratio simplex ’ . |
| 21 | She had decided that six years was a price worth paying . |
| 22 | Other critics have felt that local government was a crucial democratic check on central bureaucratic control that needed to be strengthened and given more autonomy and independence and greater say in determining local affairs . |
| 23 | The praise bestowed on the adaptation of literary classics , the films of the foreign directors , and the role of Vidor always stressed the relative realism of these films compared with the standard product and was testimony to the extent to which the feature film had moved away from the era of social preoccupations when it had been felt that social preaching was the obvious subject-matter for Hollywood . |
| 24 | It is now generally accepted that this meeting was the first step on the unpremeditated road which led to the establishment of the London Veterinary College . |
| 25 | The document noted that foreign debt was a threat to social peace and the stability of democratic systems in Latin America , restricting as it did social services budgets . |
| 26 | And only the previous week the head of the Irish College in Rome — a widely respected Monsignor had said that illegal resistance was the natural protection against immoral laws and that ‘ the Catholics of Ireland rightly disowned what force made them endure ’ . |
| 27 | If German anti-Semitism was the ‘ bastard child of the union between German nationalism and Christian anti-Semitism ’ then it must also be said that German nationalism was the offspring of military ambition and industrialisation . |
| 28 | After the flight of King James II on 11 December 1688 the legal fiction was adopted that this day was the last of his reign ( thus 4 James II is 6 February 1688 to 11 December 1688 ) , and there followed an interregnum until William III and Mary II were made king and queen for their joint and several lives on 13 February 1689 . |
| 29 | Mr Bangemann explicitly appealed to other European leaders not to suggest that German reunification was an immediate political issue or one which could be decided without dramatic changes in the political and security situation in Europe as a whole . |
| 30 | However , it would be misleading to suggest that fascist violence was the sole cause of conflict . |