Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] was that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the main reason for my silence was that secrecy and deception had by then become second nature to me . |
| 2 | The inference that was clearly to be drawn from their study was that land reform/land redistribution was the critical factor in the peasant problem : even if the peasants ' lot could be improved by less drastic means . |
| 3 | Its benefit was that shipping could avoid the dangerous passage round the north coast of Scotland and — as Britain was at war with France — there was great strategic value in providing a protected route for warships . |
| 4 | " Their attitude was that air condition , which was more equated to comfort than health , was solely the responsibility of the employer . " |
| 5 | Another reason for its failure was that CAFFE could only ever provide a single path through the diagnostic tree ; there was no way to volunteer information and to jump ahead to a later section of the flow chart . |
| 6 | At two-twenty Minto 's party appeared , saying that the reason for their delay was that Liddiat , the handyman employed by Minto at The Kilns , had pumped up the tyres of the car so hard that it was impossible to drive at more than fifteen miles per hour . |
| 7 | His heart swelled with joy and gratitude to the Emperor on Earth , whose mind was that lamp . |
| 8 | The essence of his difficulty was that time and change imply that the same thing can have contradictory properties — it can be , say , hot and cold , depending on the time — and this conflicted with the rule that nothing can possess incompatible attributes . |
| 9 | But what had really struck her in his remark was that word sophisticated . |
| 10 | But the apex of his career was that afternoon in 1966 when he hoisted aloft the World Cup for England . |
| 11 | Gower was even more stung to learn one of the reasons for his omission was that England play eight one-day internationals on tour . |
| 12 | The RICS scale provided for a commission of 10 per cent , but upon what figure was that percentage to be calculated ? |
| 13 | What number was that place ? |
| 14 | Our hypothesis was that hypoxaemia occurred more often than suspected clinically from the presence of cyanosis and that selected clinical signs , including respiratory rate , would be useful to predict its presence . |
| 15 | We are working within a straight jacket imposed by central government , but our choice was that budget , for all its faults in totality , for the fact that it was half a million less than it could be , and the budget put forward by the Labour party who had totally refused to negotiate on their budget , and therefore we ought to look at that budget in detail to see what was on offer , because it was n't very pretty . |