Example sentences of "[was/were] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Were it to be that Christian orthodoxy were that a man , Jesus of Nazareth , was God ( or we may say ‘ a god ’ ) , then there would be no hope that Christianity and feminism could be reconciled . |
| 2 | Final figures were that a total of 5,712 candidates had stood for election , of whom 1,021 were independents and the remainder represented one of the 59 different parties . |
| 3 | His rules of taxation were that a tax should be fair , easy to predict , easy to collect and difficult to evade . |
| 4 | So it was that a generation of highly educated women occupied their minds with Bowlby and Spock and The Joy Of Cooking and little else . |
| 5 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
| 6 | One puzzling aspect of this notion was that a variety of tyrosine kinases ( receptors and non-receptors ) and possibly other activators , such as certain G-protein-coupled receptors , could all funnel signals into the same , highly conserved recipient , Ras . |
| 7 | Thus before the 1833 Dower Act , the principle under English common law was that a widow had a life entitlement to one-third of the income from her husband 's former property . |
| 8 | The corollary to this was that a unit operating according to such principles would have to be trained to arrive on the scene of an operation by every practical method from land , sea or air . |
| 9 | Their argument was that a male 's potential quality as a parent might be important because , in many species of Old World monkeys , males form strong protective relationships with females and their young , which are crucial in reducing the amount of harassment and competition the young suffer from other members of the group . |
| 10 | The official explanation was that a finish flag had blown down on to the mechanism and the timing had run on . |
| 11 | Perrier 's first explanation for the contamination of its water was that a worker at its French plant had mistakenly used the wrong sort of cleaning fluid on bottling equipment . |
| 12 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
| 13 | An account which remained unchallenged in the press reports was that a girl of 12 had ‘ provoked ’ her death by failing to reveal her age prior to sex play . |
| 14 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
| 15 | Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along . |
| 16 | The actual decision of the House was that a proof before answer of the pursuers ' averments should be allowed , but in the course of reaching that decision it was necessary to consider whether they would be entitled to recover overcharges if their complaint of undue discrimination was made out . |
| 17 | The danger , from the Government 's point of view , was that a well-entrenched , privately owned press would support the interests of those opposed to socialism and whose cause could be served by development along capitalist lines . |
| 18 | Her major finding was that a relationship appeared to exist between the technology an enterprise operated and the organisational structure of that enterprise . |
| 19 | The primary submission for Woolwich was that a subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand for tax , or any similar demand , at once acquires a right to recover the amount so paid as money had and received to the subject 's use . |
| 20 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |
| 21 | The result was that a scratch team made the trip north and in the end were powerless to stop Blaydon running in 15 tries . |
| 22 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
| 23 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
| 24 | The boy later wrote his memoirs ; again , I quote : ‘ Mme Picard 's opinion was that a child should be allowed to read everything . |
| 25 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
| 26 | The only proviso was that a layman would be able to recognize the one from the other . |
| 27 | And the rape — was that a lie too , to catch the silly doctor ? |
| 28 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 29 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |
| 30 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |