Example sentences of "was that the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kondratiev 's basic proposition was that the advanced capitalist economies as a whole ( although he concentrated on a selected few only ) go through cycles of booms and slumps in a regular pattern . |
| 2 | Then and only then it was that the vast seamless blocks and slabs of the buried city came back to light . |
| 3 | The Civilization Society more deliberately went out for bipartisan support and one result was that the six Conservative MPs who belonged to only one antislavery body chose to give their support to it . |
| 4 | The irony was that the two conflicting strands should converge on a proposal that was so unlikely to achieve its ill-defined and contradictory aims . |
| 5 | So the message was that the two old cattle was back in Rousay . |
| 6 | What changed with the partition of Ireland in 1920 was that the two dominant alliances were internally reorganized . |
| 7 | Mountbatten 's personal view was that the new nationalist movements should be appeased rather than suppressed and that the old colonial powers should settle for the best deal that they could get , pledging independence in the near future and thus , he hoped , preserving the greater part of their economic advantages . |
| 8 | What she did not say — what she could not say — was that the cold high days with their lengthening light terrified her . |