Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Foreign Office and the Ministry of Defence were acutely aware that the Republic of South Africa is the sole stable country in Africa ; that its government is opposed to the increasing presence of the USSR and China in Africa and that it controls the sea route to the Indian Ocean where the USSR has mounted a powerful naval challenge . |
| 2 | In fiscal 1992 , the drain on finances was development costs for the Sparcbook , exacerbated by a fall in demand for the board-level products : these were sufficiently severe that the company had to raise £572,000 in March in another rights issue after having to throw itself onto the mercy of its bankers and creditors in order to continue trading . |
| 3 | Those responsible for initial teacher training , for example , were apparently relieved that the Polytechnic , upon its merger with the Lady Spencer Churchill College of Education in 1975 , was not intending to leave them as a monotechnic island in the interdisciplinary sea of the Polytechnic , particularly when it remained possible ( as confirmed by subsequent experience elsewhere ) that isolation would mean a low ranking in whatever prioritization exercises the Polytechnic might be forced to undertake . |
| 4 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 5 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 6 | All of us there were so stunned that a man of such high standing in the golf world could be so uncaring . |
| 7 | It was almost two years since then , but the scents in her nostrils were so evocative that every detail of that occasion came sharply into her mind . |
| 8 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 9 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 10 | The ditch sides were so slippy that every time the frog jumped 2m up the side of the ditch , it slipped back down 1m . |
| 11 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 12 | West Germany 's contingent in the European Army was restricted in size and in the types of weapons it could use , and the guarantees against German misbehaviour were so ornate that the EDC treaty had more than 150 articles . |
| 13 | Her clothes were so fashionable that the country people would have noticed her . |
| 14 | By 3 p.m. , the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away ; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java . |
| 15 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 16 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 17 | In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ . |
| 18 | Does he have any figures to support his claim that , in some parts of the country , such campaigns were so vigorous that the Department had to take action ? |
| 19 | We were more concerned that the tocsin had been sounded . ’ |
| 20 | At least twice a week we 'd heard the sermons broadcast from a nearby mosque and were both sure that the preacher was Sheikh Fadlallah , one of the main spiritual leaders of Hezbollah . |
| 21 | Joyce scholars were also disappointed that the archive does not contain any of the erotic letters reputedly written in 1909 by his wife , Nora , which are thought to have inspired the character Molly Bloom in Ulysses , his most famous novel . |
| 22 | Many workers were also worried that the community care proposals would lead to de-skilling , partly because of the increased use of non-professional helpers and partly because care packages would concentrate on practical help with a lower value being placed on the less quantifiable aspects of social work support . |
| 23 | Contemporary audiences would have understood that the film appealed to them on that level but were also aware that the tragedy of the film consisted of an ordinary innocent American being hounded by external events and being forced into failure and crime . |
| 24 | The outcome of the strike and its immediate consequences was that for almost the first time many people , including politicians in the Republic , who had previously been unconvinced were now satisfied that the majority of people in Northern Ireland would not accept a united Ireland and wished to have another election before their future was again discussed . |
| 25 | Donors were reportedly disappointed that the government 's plans for economic deregulation , while liberalizing steel imports , failed to deregulate imports of wheat , sugar and cement or to remove government control over domestic prices . |
| 26 | Continued US pressures for an early cut in interest rates to encourage growth [ see pp. 37977-98 ; 38170 ] were firmly resisted by Japan and Germany , which were reportedly concerned that the weakness of their currencies in relation to the dollar would add to inflationary pressures . |
| 27 | Guy 's Hospital colleagues were particularly disappointed that the project could not be carried out in Southwark , and it was therefore agreed that we should seek a similar , inner London , largely working-class borough with an established psychogeriatric service , so that findings might be applicable to the Southwark situation . |
| 28 | Republicans were particularly concerned that the Church 's educational role should cease and be superseded by a system of free , obligatory and laic education . |
| 29 | Although the right had advocated foreign withdrawal they were well aware that the retention of some American troops was needed to prevent communist domination — ‘ Under Shtikov 's proposal , [ a ] strong Korean Communist Army in [ the ] North of Korea would be free to sweep down on the virtually unarmed south and quickly over-run it . ’ |
| 30 | On the one hand , trade unionists were increasingly confident that the period of post-war wage reductions was about to be halted , even if a battle remained to be fought . |