Example sentences of "was that the [adj] [noun] " 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 | Erm and there were two very profound reasons for that , one was the decline in employment in southern agriculture , the increasing mechanization of agriculture displacing er millions of er agricultural workers er and the second and more important factor was that the southern states provide almost nothing in the way of social provision and certainly nothing for black people er whereas the northern states were much more generous . |
| 3 | The intention was that the mechanical properties would be thereby improved ; they were , but generally only in proportion to the increase in density , at the same time much of the toughness of wood was lost . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The result was that the eastern lords saw no reason to modernise their society , no reason to foster the growth of industry . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Their line was that the Dutch Communists had been wrong to advise cooperating with the Netherlands : a national revolution was the only path to freedom . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All that Anselm demanded was that the essential basis for carrying out his duties as archbishop should remain inviolate . |
| 15 | Last November the consensus among Cologne 's younger art dealers was that the annual Art Fair had become too much of an good thing . |
| 16 | The irony was that the economic returns expected from the reforms were hardly gained at all , and the railways were really no nearer paying their way by the end of 1966 than they had been in 1962 . |
| 17 | Mr Lilley said the message he had received from local businessmen was that the economic recovery was well underway . |
| 18 | A further difference between the army and the police was that the professional officer corps had the task of leading the revolution . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Marx 's particular claim was that the macro-historical laws which he had discovered were not just speculative but had a scientific status . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | They were externally identical , but had different electrical equipments , the only obvious difference was that the MetropolitaN cars were equipped with conduit plough carriers and the London UniteD cars were not . |
| 23 | ( 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | What saved the orang , at least temporarily , in Sumatra and Borneo was that the mountainous terrain was far less appealing to early man . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | His sales pitch was that the Japanese economy is ‘ coming back strong ’ . |