Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] was [that] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically the burden of the Test Act was that all office holders erm all holders of public office had to take an oath of allegiance and had to erm take the sacraments in the Church of England otherwise they could n't hold public office . |
| 2 | Although during his visit Miyazawa had suggested that compensation was an issue which should be decided by the courts , his immediate response to the formal compensation demand was that some form of recompense was necessary to demonstrate Japan 's remorse . |
| 3 | One of the problems with the stream situation was that those pupils who found themselves in the bottom streams , who found that they were perhaps not regarded so highly or so positively by their teachers , tended to respond with misbehaviour in their classes , with occasionally vandalism around the school and generally a negative attitude towards the school and their teachers in general , and the immediate effect of the mixed ability grouping was to eradicate behavioural problems of that kind almost entirely . |
| 4 | These activities could well take place in other areas , but the impression given in Team D was that this kind of informal or semi-formal engagement with vulnerable sections of the community , recorded only patchily , constituted a prominent part of the social work approach . |
| 5 | A disadvantage of the tribute system was that each gang 's ore had to be kept separately from the others until dressed and sampled . |
| 6 | The American view of the Middle East situation was that any failure of British colonialism to come to terms with Arab Nationalism would open the door to Communist infiltration and eventual domination of the area . |
| 7 | The essential feature of the gold standard was that each country 's currency had a fixed value in terms of gold ( i.e. gold was the numeraire ) , and therefore exchange rates were effectively fixed . |
| 8 | The only constraint on writer input was that some care was taken over legibility . |
| 9 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |