Example sentences of "[was/were] that a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the light of later events , it is possible to doubt Scott 's altruism in taking the initiative in this case ; clearly after the change of government with Manners ' well-known enthusiasm for the Middle Ages , the chances were that a Gothic design would be acceptable , and Scott was the best placed of the Gothic competitors , although of course he was completely unaware of the ultimately crucial placings awarded to him by the assessors . |
| 2 | For example , a traditional assumption was that a genuine higher education experience could only be offered in a collegiate setting , with its communal and residential qualities . |
| 3 | The legal defence was that a civil servant can pass on information if it is in the interests of the state so to do . |
| 4 | The idea was that a wide range of activities would be developed for groups of young people that would allow them to gain a sense of personal involvement and achievement . |
| 5 | The most popular story concerning her conception was that a golden egg tumbled out of Chaos in the beginning of the world . |
| 6 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 7 | And so it was that a simple service took place at the parish church . |
| 8 | The experience of the Belfast researchers was that a narrow transcription was needed to identify in the first place the range of vowel variation associated with different phonetic environments . |
| 9 | The justification for this secret diplomacy was that a loud voice would not have produced better results . |
| 10 | The idea was that a 486 user would rush out to buy a new processor for her or his machine as they became available and this facility would mean the death of the 386 . |
| 11 | The result of this situation was that a key worker system for dementia sufferers did not operate . |
| 12 | Its drawback was that a multicultural celebration of diversity tended to reproduce the ‘ saris , samosas and steel-bands syndrome ’ . |
| 13 | The only encouraging news for the government contained within the opinion polls was that a sizable proportion of the electorate — up to 50 per cent in some key marginal constituencies — remained undecided on how they would vote . |
| 14 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 15 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 16 | The outcome was that a second room was negotiated and the students returned to the pattern of separate and segregated groups . |
| 17 | The rule was that a personal action died with the person to whom it attached . |
| 18 | Sources said top administration officials told politicians in a closed briefing on Wednesday that one of their greatest worries was that a long-term American occupation would turn opinion both in Panama and throughout the region against the new government . |
| 19 | All were unheated , congested , and meagrely fed , and the miracle was that a disease-free , self-governing , microcosmic version of male England emerged and survived — not without tensions and tragedies and an element of anti-Semitism — till the end of the war . |
| 20 | They were quite happy with the job Red Rhino were doing ; their basic view was that a major deal would be better , but not essential . |
| 21 | The implication of their arguments was that a major restructuring was taking place . |
| 22 | The contention was that a co-ordinated approach was needed towards the treatment of offenders , and that it was not appropriate for the Home Secretary 's responsibilities for prisoners to be on a different basis from his other responsibilities . |
| 23 | Merton 's thesis was that a godly involvement in the affairs of the world would also encourage the growth of science . |
| 24 | The only comment made was that a small parish such as Nether Wyresdale ( less than 500 electors ) could not contemplate taking on any additional direct responsibilities . |
| 25 | Accompanying the maintenance of old standards , even though social conditions were changing , often dramatically , was the survival amongst many sections of the working class ( especially the rural ) of the tradition that sexual relationships could begin at betrothal to a steady boyfriend and the corollary was that a pregnant woman would be married by the father , though as we shall see , social transformations were to weaken this . |
| 26 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 27 | Part of the understanding between Anselm and the king at Laigle in July 1105 was that a new joint mission should be sent to Rome to effect a settlement by Christmas . |
| 28 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 29 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 30 | A central , underlying theme was that a new social order was being ushered in ; one in which relations between people were being profoundly modified . |