Example sentences of "[was/were] [det] that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He added : ‘ The chancellor must come to explain why the secret arrangements were such that the public were never to know that this payment had been made . ’ |
| 2 | I would be deeply suspicious if the level of consistency were such that the figure were absolutely the same in every area because that would suggest to me that no discretion was going into the process . |
| 3 | This implication was not lost on some members of the Eastern District , notably several in Essex where the views of leading WEA activists were such that the District eventually decided to do without a tutor-organiser for the county altogether . |
| 4 | it was held that the circumstances were such that the conclusion had to be that the passenger was ‘ a person using the vehicle ’ for the purpose of clause 6(1) ( c ) of the mib agreement of 1972 and was not therefore entitled to compensation from the bureau . |
| 5 | In days of yore the structure and ownership of British publishing were such that the succession seldom caused problems . |
| 6 | But in any case , Schopenhauer 's terms of reference were such that the poet-composer could never properly comply with them , for the simple reason that they reduced the role of the word in a musical context to nothing more than a necessary evil . |
| 7 | If the pressure of demand were such that the unemployment rate was , the gap between TRW and FRW would provoke inflationary wage demands which would , if granted , push up prices . |
| 8 | A barograph used to record the pressure of gas in the gasholder in Batavia enabled the times of arrival of the pressure waves from the explosions to be recorded accurately , but the blast produced by the greatest of the explosions was such that the gasholder leapt out of its well , causing the gas to escape . |
| 9 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 10 | In other words , the injury was such that the degree of pain which it produces from day to day throughout the years is at any rate sufficient for experienced medical men to say that the rather drastic operation of arthrodesis would normally be the best thing in the circumstances . |
| 11 | Underlying confidence was such that the system survived the extraordinary madness of the South Sea Bubble in 1720 , so well that , once the vapour had cleared , it became possible to talk of beneficial outcomes from history 's most infamous bursting . |
| 12 | In many cases , this form of guaranteed sales is running at barely half that of 1989 , when the boom was such that the government was forced to drop limits on subscriptions , which it claimed were forced upon it by lack of newsprint . |
| 13 | Pressure was such that the government , in the person of George Cave the Unionist Home Secretary , was frequently forced to allow free votes , so several useful amendments were carried . |
| 14 | Their weight was such that the seam of his coat gaped behind his neck , his shoulders were bowed , and his front hem trailed on the ground . |
| 15 | Well okay bu but in that sense are you saying that the learning experience was such that the peasant was so conservative and reactionary and so was all you could do ? |
| 16 | This week I contacted Gateshead college and was told that the pressure on the access fund was such that the college could have spent its yearly entitlement by the end of the first week of the academic year . |
| 17 | He was harsh : his brutality in the taking of Alençon was such that the war against him collapsed and men 's lives , you might say , were thereby preserved in the end . |
| 18 | For a long time the hardware available for handwriting recognition was such that the input would take place on a graphics tablet , while the visual feedback appeared on a monitor screen . |
| 19 | And the body of the Cid was prepared after this manner : first it was embalmed and anointed as the history hath already recounted , and the virtue of the balsam and myrrh was such that the flesh remained firm and fair , having its natural colour , and his countenance as it was wont to be , and the eyes open , and his long beard in order , so that there was not a man who would have thought him dead if he had seen him and not known it . |
| 20 | The quality of the additional research was such that the tobacco manufacturers informed Stivoro that they wanted to drop the lawsuit . |
| 21 | In her report to the Secretary of State the inspector concluded that the additional pollution would be small and that the design of the plant was such that the emission should he odourless , the sulphur dioxide properly dispersed , the grit and dust unharmful to local residents . |
| 22 | The baby on the way was all that the marriage had going for it , and even then , if Rachel was n't around , he had a roving eye , and sometimes more than an eye , although at that stage he was technically faithful , I think . |
| 23 | In nine cases in Ipswich and nine in Newham relatively infrequent monitoring of the home care situation was all that the development officers provided . |