Example sentences of "was that the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The result was that the eastern lords saw no reason to modernise their society , no reason to foster the growth of industry . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Marx 's particular claim was that the macro-historical laws which he had discovered were not just speculative but had a scientific status . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But what we found was that the heavier breeds , the wine dots and the Rhode Island Reds , they did n't need such a high fence as what the leghorns or any of the lighter breeds needed . |
| 9 | What he did n't realize however , was that the real questions had only just begun . |
| 10 | The joke , of course , was that the real students were currently being head-hunted for posts with starting salaries in excess of 20K . |
| 11 | Writing in 1932 the English critic Bryher asked why it was that the real virtues and strengths and diversity of America had never been conveyed in the movies sent across the Atlantic . |
| 12 | What Lord Airlie , the Lord Chamberlain , actually said on 11 February when announcing the areas on which the Queen was now going to pay tax , was that the income-raising activities relating to the collection — sales of tickets , catalogues , souvenirs etc — are to be put into a trust to reflect the fact that these activities are used exclusively to maintain the Collection . |
| 13 | The fact was that the central parts of cities had confused land-use patterns and other features which rendered necessary some new , speedy coordinating hand to control the renewal process . |
| 14 | The point of my earlier letter was that the existing standards of barrier widths are not adequate . |
| 15 | It was that the Rural Areas Committee should have executive control over the appointment of tutors for classes and courses and thus , of course , approval of the syllabuses . |
| 16 | The effect of these two prescriptions was that the principal repayments of loans raised were taken off the balance sheet and put through the revenue account . |
| 17 | The only hope for the naturalist was that the stolen specimens might re-surface in Europe , where he could then buy them back . |
| 18 | The upshot of the litigation was that the non-litigation costs , together with the litigation costs , were taxed by the taxing master . |
| 19 | One major factor , of course , was that the possible alternatives seemed enfeebled and lacking in conviction . |
| 20 | The reason for this was that the fallen leaves blocked our sluice and had to be removed manually with a hay rake at least three times a day and often at night as well . |
| 21 | What happened was that the various decisions were taken by technicians and others in staff positions and fed into the line management structure . |
| 22 | ( 1986b ) for the link between childhood lack of care , premarital pregnancy and adult risk of depression , for instance , was that the early adversities militated against the child developing a sense of control over her life , and exercising it . |
| 23 | All he said was that the other boys must have been useless . |
| 24 | Anyway , the outcome was that the other members tried to expel him from the branch . |
| 25 | The result was that the all-union bodies which carried out these functions were seen as Russian bodies , and Russians took the blame for their shortcomings ; while Russia itself , one of the areas whose numbers had been increasing most rapidly before the revolution , was threatened with depopulation . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The corporation cited planning and zoning regulations for refusing these applications but it was generally assumed that the real reason was that the new houses would have been built in Unionist-controlled wards but would have been inhabited by Catholics . |