Example sentences of "was that [adj] [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty with restoring the former glories was that many bands had outpriced themselves . |
| 2 | The irony was that many Nepmen had in fact been nurtured by the state during the harsh economic stringencies of War Communism . |
| 3 | What the statement laid down — ; following the NCTA tradition — was that all courses had to include ‘ studies which by complementing or contrasting with the main subjects studied will help to provide a balanced education ’ . |
| 4 | Now what happened was that these particles had very peculiar K properties . |
| 5 | The undeniable fact was that these changes had ‘ a widely varied impact on skilled workers ’ . |
| 6 | The old view of the party organizations dating from Ostrogorski 's great work , Democracy and the Organisation of Political Parties ( translated by F. Clarke in 1902 ) , was that these bodies had a life of their own . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |