Example sentences of "was that the [adj] government " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I thought for a while and said that the only thing I could think of was that the British government did not — although it would have been slow to admit it — at that moment cut much ice with the South African government , but the United States government cut considerable ice . |
| 4 | The reply from the committee was that the local government board had sanctioned the development , a statement which seems to have silenced the opposition . |
| 5 | His main concern was that the National government had not sufficiently registered the fact that if Spain fell into fascist hands France would then be surrounded by fascist powers — Germany , Italy and Spain . |