Example sentences of "was that the [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The idea was that the few men in the University who could read the original language of the Edda and the Sagas should group together with those who wished to learn , and read their way through the principal texts . |
| 2 | The result , at least in Nikol'skaia volost' , was that the few literates from the old regime were starting to occupy the best bureaucratic jobs and to run parish-pump economics and politics in ways barely supervised from above and in fact quite inimical to the aspirations of the guberniia officials . |
| 3 | What he did not realize was that the same combination of forces could be used against the monarchy . |
| 4 | Bukharin 's point was that the same methods can not be used to carry through these two quite distinct tasks . |
| 5 | The paradox was that the more ideology stressed the role of sex within conjugality , the more it was necessary to describe and regulate those forms of sexuality which were outside it . |
| 6 | The concept of the poll tax was that the more people there were in a property the more they paid , whereas under the council tax students will not add to but will deduct from the bill . |