Example sentences of "[verb] was that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 2 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
| 3 | But what we found was that the heavier breeds , the wine dots and the Rhode Island Reds , they did n't need such a high fence as what the leghorns or any of the lighter breeds needed . |
| 4 | I had expected that one or two of the fry might tentatively explore this new hiding place ; what in fact happened was that the ENTIRE brood crammed themselves into it within a minute of my putting it in the tank . |
| 5 | What happened was that the various decisions were taken by technicians and others in staff positions and fed into the line management structure . |
| 6 | What Branson did not envisage was that the dissenting faction of the Time Out staff would leave to produce their own magazine , City Limits , run on the cooperative principles eschewed by Tony Elliott ; and that Time Out would return to the streets largely shorn of its radical bent — in fact , very much the magazine Branson wished Event to be . |
| 7 | The problem each system faced was that the matching process created a large number of partial solutions , and various heuristics had to be used to cut down the search space . |
| 8 | What he did not realize was that the same combination of forces could be used against the monarchy . |
| 9 | What they did not realize was that the express train had a restaurant car and the slow train did not . |
| 10 | The only interesting point to emerge was that the Roman ditch continued an almost certainly unbroken course northwards past the medieval gate and its street to terminate 5.5 m ( 18 ft ) beyond them , while both the early rampart and the Roman wall continued for an unknown distance beyond this end of the ditch . |
| 11 | What he failed to understand was that the illicit sex itself was n't the biggest crime . |
| 12 | And what was found was that the new technology did n't produce a hundred percent wonderfulness . |
| 13 | The explanation offered was that the facilitating effects of general arousal in the left hemisphere were offset by the cognitive load of remembering the set of words . |
| 14 | All that Anselm demanded was that the essential basis for carrying out his duties as archbishop should remain inviolate . |
| 15 | Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities . |
| 16 | More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them . |
| 17 | The answer he gave was that the only ground of legitimacy is to be found in the general will of the people , as only the people can say who has the right to rule them . |
| 18 | At the conference , in the final plenary session , what was emerging was that the whole conference was virtually treating itself like handmaidens to the medical profession . |
| 19 | Vermuyden constructed the first Bedford River , twenty-one miles long , to drain the so-called Bedford Level , and it was highly effective for a time , but the one factor the engineer failed to foresee was that the dried-out land would shrink ( see Holme Fen ) , and soon the level of the canal was above that of the surrounding land . |
| 20 | All he said was that the other boys must have been useless . |
| 21 | What they pleaded for was further experimentation and what they hoped was that the new techniques and acting styles could be extended to other types of films . |
| 22 | ‘ The experience we had was that the only people who bought it more or less were the people who used it , ’ says a spokesman . |
| 23 | One conclusion to emerge from a recent conference at which the Italians and Egyptians met was that the existing Cairo Egyptian Museum should be maintained . |
| 24 | If she was seriously letting herself fall for this man 's serpentine charm , then all she could think was that the glandular fever had affected her brain cells as well as her blood cells . |
| 25 | The basic reason given was that the traditional rating system failed to produce democratic accountability . |
| 26 | But what neither minister nor the exciseman of the 18th century realised was that the underlying cause was lead poisoning . |