Example sentences of "was that by [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British opinion , for what it was worth , was that by no stretch of the imagination was Bao Dai 's régime in de facto control ( they also warned the Americans that Schuman would claim that the French had gone as far as they could in Vietnam without creating trouble in French North Africa ) . |
| 2 | Radcliffe-Brown 's lifelong conviction was that by a kind of Newtonian revolution , replacing the historical speculations of ethnology by a scientific methodology , social anthropology might become ‘ a theoretical natural science of society ’ , in a sociological tradition he traced to Montesquieu , Comte , Herbert Spencer [ q.v. ] , and Durkheim . |
| 3 | The result was that by the middle of 1990 , both companies were finding sales of their established ‘ bread-and-butter ’ linguistic product lines seriously eroded . |
| 4 | The only problem was that by the time you had finished the slide show at the end of the evening you were covered from fingertips to armpits in coloured ink and oil and all the gunge associated with it . |
| 5 | The trouble was that by the time he knew Mosley was a serious electoral threat to his position , it was almost too late . |
| 6 | And the outcome of that was that by the time the boys reached the hut where they lived with their grandfather , they had clean forgotten what the sun-god told them to do . |
| 7 | The result of that was that by the time I 'd rushed across the road , dashed up the stair well found the place , dashed up the stairs , I was out of breath and er had n't composed myself and I just res resembled a quivering blob that er |
| 8 | So it was that by the time Hugh and Twoflower entered the courtyard of the Broken Drum the leaders of a number of them were aware that someone had arrived in the city who appeared to have much treasure . |
| 9 | The reason for selecting the figure US$2m. was that by the end of January 1992 the sum in court together with accrued interest had grown to U.S.$2½m. and U.S.$½m. would be fully sufficient to satisfy any claims of the shipowners , charterers and other commercial parties . |
| 10 | His researches go back to the 1950s : ‘ I was always fascinated by history — I spent five years as an architecture student and the reason why I did n't get through was that by the end I was much more interested in the history of architecture than other aspects of the subject , ’ he recalls . |
| 11 | The trouble was that by the end of the eighteenth century times were unstable . |
| 12 | The consequence of this was that by the end of the decade the Unilever detergent and one other brand had captured 90 per cent of the market in Barbados . |
| 13 | One of the most systematic surveys to be undertaken was that by the Policy Studies Institute ( Brown , 1982 ) . |