Example sentences of "was that [art] two [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Finally , an issue we became aware of — in England at least-because of the " dowry " system of funding was that a two tier system may be set up which benefits those people who have come out of hospital and ignores the others .
2 The truth was that the two women between them had raised the nine million dollars needed to make The Dawn of Dreams , and they had done it with such consummate feminine grace that the handsome , silver-haired head of the family did not quite understand that his title of producer was merely honorary .
3 One effect of wiring for trolleybuses was that the two pairs of wires were accommodated in troughing under the bridges at Selhurst and Selby Road .
4 As their Lordships understand their reasoning , it was that the two sales were not legally interdependent and that there was no evidence to support the judge 's finding that the Perots had a special interest in buying the two adjoining properties .
5 More than 20 plasterers were resident in Bristol in these years and what seems to have happened was that the two Tyndalls brooded over rolls of Chinese wallpaper and popular books of decorative devices like The Modern Builder 's Assistant ( 1757 ) , picking up and choosing the themes and the motifs that pleased them .
6 The story was that the two men , who shared living quarters in the barn of their farmer-employer , had quarrelled after a drinking bout during the night .
7 Given these competing interests , the best he could propose was that the two governments should try to come to a prior understanding concerning each other 's needs and thereby avoid the formal commitments which the US Joint Chiefs feared might paralyse American forces at the start of hostilities .
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