Example sentences of "was that the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The central theme of the dispute was that the Labour Party had neither the following nor the enthusiasm to oppose the National Government in isolation . |
| 2 | The accepted explanation was that the capitalist system of production was based on selfishness since only some in the community could prosper , as their prosperity had to be at the expense of others . |
| 3 | The general interest of US business and finance in the postwar period , perceived as such from 1947 onwards at least , was that the capitalist world as a whole should expand rapidly , with as open access as possible for US commodities and capital . |
| 4 | The principle of the old law was that the rich man who had property to pay his creditors was allowed to spend it comfortably in The Fleet or Marshalsea . |
| 5 | The essence of their argument was that the electoral system encouraged a polarized contest between two parties for the winner-take-all spoils of a general election . |
| 6 | The industrial tribunal found that the reason for the dismissals was that the managing director was strongly anti-union but that none of the four could show that the reason for his dismissal was his own union membership or activities . |
| 7 | The main difference between the two tasks was that the causal task required a choice between two different events ( the cause and the effect of B ) , whereas the temporal task required a choice between two different event-orders . |
| 8 | Although the intention was that the allowable dolphin kill be gradually reduced each year to zero , since the introduction of the Act 800,000 dolphins have been killed by US purse seiners alone . |
| 9 | All that was in essence known to HQ 5 Corps was that the greater number of these people were " Cossacks " or " Russians " making up various units who had found themselves in Austria because to a greater or lesser extent they had been associated with the Germans , and had surrendered to the British in the hope that they might thus avoid falling into the hands of the Communists . |
| 10 | What I did n't know — what the situation disguised , if you like — was that the poor girl really was helpless , plain silly when it came to anything practical . |
| 11 | All that Anselm demanded was that the essential basis for carrying out his duties as archbishop should remain inviolate . |
| 12 | Last November the consensus among Cologne 's younger art dealers was that the annual Art Fair had become too much of an good thing . |
| 13 | Mr Lilley said the message he had received from local businessmen was that the economic recovery was well underway . |
| 14 | A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution . |
| 15 | The allegations were unverifiable , but what was clear was that the mixed population was not around to enjoy day one of its newly-bestowed freedom . |
| 16 | Madge 's argument for the use of participant observation was that the ordinary interview situation is such a highly artificial social situation that both questioner and informant are in false positions . |
| 17 | What Ostrom found , incidentally , was that the second toe of the hind foot did not reach the ground but ended in a large and vicious claw . |
| 18 | ( d ) " The saddest result of the Boer War was that the Liberal government approved a most illiberal constitution for the South Africa Union in settlements of 1906 and 1910 . |
| 19 | The only significant event was that the Liberal Democrat vote fell from 9,906 to 5,107 , and the majority of these former Liberal Democrat votes went to the Labour candidate , whose vote increased from 7,296 to 11,480 . |
| 20 | The main reason for the first three failures to carry the Bill through Parliament was that the then Secretary of State for Education , George Kekewich , objected to the clauses in the Bill whereby it was not compulsory for local authorities to make any provision for the education of deaf children in their area . |
| 21 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 22 | What saved the orang , at least temporarily , in Sumatra and Borneo was that the mountainous terrain was far less appealing to early man . |
| 23 | The most immediate and exuberant assumption , that of Prince Cuong De , pretender to the throne and a descendant of Emperor Gia Long , was that the Japanese army would help him to recover his throne and his country ; but the example of Japan gave rise to different interpretations . |
| 24 | What made the ruling even more surprising was that the Japanese government had pledged to correct bias in school textbooks after South Korea and China lodged diplomatic protests in 1982 , when the book was originally banned . |
| 25 | His sales pitch was that the Japanese economy is ‘ coming back strong ’ . |
| 26 | Your only mistake was that the small lap dog Deveril carried was either overlooked or ran away . |
| 27 | Leese 's view was that the chief function of the IFL was a training organization for an élite of anti-semitic propagandists , not as a political party in its own right . |
| 28 | ‘ The difficulty was that the chief executive was very pro-commodity trading , which I rapidly became averse to because I saw it as just another form of playing the casinos . |
| 29 | Edward III 's intention was that the Black Prince 's campaign in Aquitaine should be accompanied by an expedition to Brittany under Lancaster and an invasion of Normandy led by Charles of Navarre , king of the small Pyrenean kingdom lying between Aquitaine and Castile . |
| 30 | My information was that the real cause of the trouble there was a man called Jefferson . |