Example sentences of "[noun] was that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Part of the deal was that the vessel should be renamed and based on the Clyde . |
| 2 | The result of the CAFU experiment was that the cockpit conversation between the flight crew when they were not using the intercom was crystal clear . |
| 3 | Indeed , our own perception was that the system was performing quite well but staff in branches were telling us , in plain English , that they were unhappy . |
| 4 | The only disappointment for the Sunderland fans was that the team did not come out to be saluted after their 1–0 victory as happened when the 1973 side also won through to Wembley at Hillsborough . |
| 5 | One of the key assumptions of Morgan and Engels was that the shift from matriliny to patriliny was in some ways linked with the introduction of herding and , subsequently , agriculture . |
| 6 | His reasoning was that the productivity of free workers was greater than slave labour if the labourers were offered sufficient inducement through piece-work and high rates for day labour ; the cost of getting the same amount of work done by slaves was greater than the cost of the higher rates offered as an inducement . |
| 7 | The allegation was that a doctor had been negligent in administering electro-convulsive therapy to a patient without a relaxant drug or restraining convulsive movements . |
| 8 | In short , the allegation was that the Stock Exchange 's rules were restrictive of competition , and the onus was on the Exchange to prove otherwise . |
| 9 | The result was that a scratch team made the trip north and in the end were powerless to stop Blaydon running in 15 tries . |
| 10 | With hindsight , I know I should have seen the warning signals in the man himself , which I missed through inexperience , but the result was that a cloud of depression , a sense of failure , settled over me , and also over the whole team . |
| 11 | The result was that a constituent of mine — and no doubt many hundreds of others who have just been referred to by the Minister as being included in the 1,200 people who received grants — was short changed and not given the full amount . |
| 12 | The result was that the story was set aside for the time being . |
| 13 | The result was that the minority party carried the election , in the absence of the three former Councillors who were in prison . |
| 14 | The result was that the procedure was deadlocked and no umpire could be appointed , because that could be achieved only by an act of the two valuers after they had both been appointed . |
| 15 | West Germany objected to French being the single language of the organisation , and the net result was that the ECSC had to operate with four official languages . |
| 16 | The result was that the proportion of the population over the age at which state pensions can now be drawn ( 65 years for men and 60 for women ) , increased over the eighty-year period from about one in twenty ( 5 per cent ) to over one in six ( about 18 per cent ) . |
| 17 | The result was that the board was confined to the business of handling ships and cargo but required ministerial consent if , for example , it wished to develop the land attached to the sites . |
| 18 | The result was that the union became subordinated for some time to the hierarchy and a breakaway union of protestant teachers was formed . |
| 19 | The result was that the test vehicles horsepower was increased by 11% . |
| 20 | The result was that the Government virtually had to climb down over its much heralded claim that it was offering the miners a significant increase in pay . |
| 21 | It was not incinerated properly , and the result was that the west midlands was polluted with dioxine |
| 22 | In 1946 , however , Lean directed his first film without a Coward connection , Great Expectations , and the huge reputation and success this enjoyed coincided with the start of the long postwar decline suffered by Coward — the net result was that the writer 's contribution to the earlier films ' success became progressively marginalized , a state of affairs hardly helped by the increasing influence of French auteurist models of film analysis on British critics . |
| 23 | The net result was that the stiffness distribution of the structure was significantly altered , creating the high fastener loadings which led ultimately to the fatigue failure in the rear spar top chord . |
| 24 | The result was that the man left walking the beat had little of interest to do by way of responding to requests for emergency services … |
| 25 | One of the arguments used to justify this result was that the Attorney-General 's decision could and should be questioned , if at all , only in Parliament . |
| 26 | The result was that the economy was in the grip of a crisis which could only be resolved by adopting measures to free it from the constraints of autarchy . |
| 27 | A second result was to weaken customary control over pre-marital sexual relations and in the context of increased mobility the inevitable result was that the impulse to marry in the event of a pregnancy was either weakened or thwarted . |
| 28 | The result was that the clay hardened and the wax melted , leaving a space between the inner core , called the ‘ crook ’ , and the outer shell , called the ‘ cope ’ . |
| 29 | For our purposes , however , the most important result was that the Mortgage Act 1949 did not change fundamentally the Roman-Dutch law on parate execution . |
| 30 | Back in Belfast , it was getting close to printing time , but men who thought they had finished work for the day were summoned from the former Brown Horse pub across the street and the result was that the ISN was the first paper in the world to carry the tragic story . |