Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [was/were] that all [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The background to this inquiry was that all students doing so studies as a supplementary study have to produce a project whit assessed by Birmingham Polytechnic . |
| 2 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Socrates ' own comment was that all men were equally ignorant , but he alone was aware of the fact ; and even those expert in their own fields ( poets among them ) had no conscious understanding of their calling but worked " only by instinct " . |