Example sentences of "[noun] was [conj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In addition to a single card , each group received a worksheet containing the following instructions : One of the advantages of cutting up the card was that each group , after having recorded its own reconstruction , was able to assemble the narratives proposed by the other groups . |
| 2 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 3 | The crux of his reasoning was that British connections with the Commonwealth , with European states outside the EEC , and with the United States would transform a cohesive European community into a larger and looser Atlantic community under American control . |
| 4 | Watsons actually recommended what should happen with both the surpluses and their recommendation was that both businesses should take a contribution holiday for the next three , five and maybe even be ten years in the Post Office , depending how investments go erm an- and there was no discussion erm between or negotiation between anybody . |
| 5 | The overall result was that All Hallows were third , behind Marple Hall , whose local knowledge brought them in first and Queen Elizabeth GS , Wakefield . |
| 6 | The result was that all New York fares could now be reduced , bringing them to a level only slightly above that of Virgin 's competing New York fare , and fares on the Boston route were adjusted to match the New York level . |
| 7 | The result was that other departments er particularly the fitters for example er who were still working on the old scheme , wanted to , they then wanted to come onto the scheme . |
| 8 | The result was that Roman Dmowski , one of the two Polish leaders in Paris , was reduced to despair and frustration by Wilson s attitude over Danzig . |
| 9 | The result was that one Michał Drzymała , who purchased land in Wolsztyn , circumvented the rules only by living in a caravan for nearly ten years . |
| 10 | The result was that four travellers were now sitting in the airport terminal waiting for the next flight , which was probably full anyway . |
| 11 | The result was that United Brands had to abandon what was generally acknowledged to be a highly efficient distribution system , arguably to the detriment of consumer welfare . |
| 12 | The result was that public perception of My Lai was crucially altered and Americans came to believe that Calley and his men had inadvertently killed some Vietnamese civilians in the heat of battle . |
| 13 | The net result was that Parliamentary control over the terms of the Bill was less than adequate . |
| 14 | The result was that 15 years later the plaster was loose and needed replacement . |
| 15 | The result was that miserable document and philosophy known as the Memorandum . |
| 16 | The irony was that many Nepmen had in fact been nurtured by the state during the harsh economic stringencies of War Communism . |
| 17 | One of the most extraordinary things about the man 's mind was that any check , any set-back , to some sweet hypothesis , far from dismaying him , seemed immediately to prompt some second hypothesis that soon appeared even sweeter than the first . |
| 18 | The Government 's intention was that these funds would be a way of helping with one-off exceptional circumstances affecting only a small minority of students , but the reality is that once again they have been shown to be completely wrong . |
| 19 | The third distinctive feature of the dinosaurs was that many species grew enormously in size . |
| 20 | The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term . |
| 21 | My worst fear was that one day she would come to the forge and see me working as a common blacksmith , with black face and hands . |
| 22 | Her biggest fear was that any hint that she might have formed an attachment for someone else would see her husband not waiting for her to agree to a divorce , but scandalising her parents by attempting to do the divorcing himself . |
| 23 | At the outset , my criterion was that each house should be unadulterated and purely of its time . |
| 24 | In Boston and East London one of the underlying factors in establishing the Compact was that both cities were undergoing a service-sector boom in employment . |
| 25 | All the information they got should be pooled , the only condition was that each paper was sent to every other paper , and that all could pick up anything they wanted . |
| 26 | Sennett was the initial genius who taught the others that anything ought to be tried that produced laughter and that the ultimate test was whether any movie actually worked for audiences . |
| 27 | I used to help with sticking the the er money onto the well this used to take about , you know , an hour all these kids did n't know what two pence was , did n't know what twenty pence was and ten pence and fifty pence and then we , they were in go about groups of seven and we get all this done then it would be assembly , then it 'll be games and then that 'll be it for the whole morning ! |
| 28 | Elice , ever a harbinger of gloom , was ready to point out that Athena Gardens was but one sector of Arcady . |
| 29 | Broadly , apart from the incorporation of East Germany following German unification [ see p. 37659 ] , the Commission 's attitude was that any expansion of the EC 's membership could not be considered until after the implementation of the single internal market , scheduled for the end of 1992 . |
| 30 | The chief argument for putting the Callovian in the Upper Jurassic was that this stage was markedly transgressive Over a large part of the Soviet Union and that , therefore , this was a natural break such as one might expect at a major stratigraphical boundary . |