Example sentences of "was [that] it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole raison d'etre of that early Christian community was that it believed certain things of Christ — at the very least , that it was he whom God had raised from the dead . |
| 2 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 3 | It has been shown above that those with larger mortgages and those on higher incomes benefit most from MITR , but one of the main arguments originally put forward to justify its existence was that it benefited first-time buyers , enabling them to purchase a house which would otherwise have been beyond their means . |
| 4 | The benefit of the system was that it demanded that society intervened for those who were under great pressure and could not take the stress . |
| 5 | Another criticism of the Leeds adjournment system was that it added further stress to socially disadvantaged people already living under stressful conditions . |
| 6 | The main point of the case was that it involved domestic property where the client would suffer ( as a private purchaser ) a relatively great loss if the report were negligent , while the risk that would have been undertaken by the surveyor , if he had accepted liability for negligence , would have been relatively low , since it was a routine survey of domestic property , and for him , as a businessman , the value of the property in question was not relatively a great amount of money . |
| 7 | One notable feature of the gold standard was that it allowed automatic adjustment to take place via changes in expenditure and output . |
| 8 | The positive achievement of this tradition was that it allowed different communities , and their claims over their members , to be acknowledged and valued with a new , official respect . |
| 9 | What was impressive about the group was that it included six US Nobel laureates in economics and a broad bi-partisan collection of the best of American economic thought . |
| 10 | One of the good things about the school was that it overlooked open countryside , where there were usually buzzards and kestrels flying around . |