Example sentences of "was that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What she meant , she told herself , was that no living creature would choose to be a pet , and nothing would opt for imprisonment , and when she went home she 'd feel trapped and , if she did n't know it was happening , she 'd rather be shot — as long as she did n't see the bullet coming . |
| 2 | The outcome , perhaps inevitably , was that no new voting system at all was introduced , except for the university constituencies ( for it was deemed that graduates would be able to follow the mysteries of PR even if the rest of the electors could not ) . |
| 3 | The obvious outcome of such a fragmented service was that no academic area of work was established or recognised , and outside the university sector , surveying , in any of its specialisations , lacked credibility , backing and dedicated resources . |
| 4 | If she had learnt anything about life it was that no beneficent creator was in charge . |
| 5 | The general rule was that no fresh evidence could be adduced once the jury had retired ; Davies ( 1976 ) 62 Cr.App.R. 194 , at p.201 and Owen [ 1952 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 6 | The net result of these antagonistic effects was that no significant change in soluble calcium was observed . |
| 7 | The implicit basis of child care practice up to that point was that no fundamental conflicts of interest between parents and children , or between families and the state , were at stake in such interventions . |
| 8 | The legal defence was that a civil servant can pass on information if it is in the interests of the state so to do . |
| 9 | The idea was that a wide range of activities would be developed for groups of young people that would allow them to gain a sense of personal involvement and achievement . |
| 10 | The most popular story concerning her conception was that a golden egg tumbled out of Chaos in the beginning of the world . |
| 11 | The views of the Library Association on censorship are , on paper , sound , but what the News International ban demonstrated was that a simple reliance on policy statements and codes of professional conduct was not enough and never will be enough to confront library censorship . |
| 12 | And so it was that a simple service took place at the parish church . |
| 13 | The experience of the Belfast researchers was that a narrow transcription was needed to identify in the first place the range of vowel variation associated with different phonetic environments . |
| 14 | The justification for this secret diplomacy was that a loud voice would not have produced better results . |
| 15 | The result of this situation was that a key worker system for dementia sufferers did not operate . |
| 16 | Its drawback was that a multicultural celebration of diversity tended to reproduce the ‘ saris , samosas and steel-bands syndrome ’ . |
| 17 | The only encouraging news for the government contained within the opinion polls was that a sizable proportion of the electorate — up to 50 per cent in some key marginal constituencies — remained undecided on how they would vote . |
| 18 | The first was that a Labour government was going to rely on economic growth to finance its increases in public expenditure , the second was that it would ban fox-hunting . |
| 19 | erm in a very interested book called Darwin on Man recently by a psychologist called Gruber , Gruber has argued that Darwin had a conviction which could be expressed by saying that things which are natural are necessarily gradual , and things which are sudden are miraculous and not natural , that he had this equation in his mind erm long before he erm became and evolutionist , long before he abandoned his belief in religion which he largely did later , and Gruber traces it back , interestingly enough , to the arguments of a theologian , Sumner , who later became an Archbishop , who Darwin took notes on his ideas when he was a student at Cambridge erm which are still extent , and what Sumner had argued , among other things , was that a good argument for believing in the divinity of Christ , that Christ was divine rather than simply being a gifted teacher , was the suddenness with which the beliefs of the ancient world were transformed by Christ 's teaching . |
| 20 | The rule was that a personal action died with the person to whom it attached . |
| 21 | The implication of their arguments was that a major restructuring was taking place . |
| 22 | They were quite happy with the job Red Rhino were doing ; their basic view was that a major deal would be better , but not essential . |
| 23 | The contention was that a co-ordinated approach was needed towards the treatment of offenders , and that it was not appropriate for the Home Secretary 's responsibilities for prisoners to be on a different basis from his other responsibilities . |
| 24 | Merton 's thesis was that a godly involvement in the affairs of the world would also encourage the growth of science . |
| 25 | The only comment made was that a small parish such as Nether Wyresdale ( less than 500 electors ) could not contemplate taking on any additional direct responsibilities . |
| 26 | Accompanying the maintenance of old standards , even though social conditions were changing , often dramatically , was the survival amongst many sections of the working class ( especially the rural ) of the tradition that sexual relationships could begin at betrothal to a steady boyfriend and the corollary was that a pregnant woman would be married by the father , though as we shall see , social transformations were to weaken this . |
| 27 | Almost the only significance of Trotskyism in the 1930s was that a tenuous tradition was established which was not to materialize as a significant political influence until the 1960s . |
| 28 | Mills , like Marxists , also presented an historical account of the transformation of power in American society to explain how and why it was that a new power elite had developed in the post-war world . |
| 29 | The greatest victory for the Sandinistas , he said , was that a new path was opening for the Nicaraguan people without war and where national interests would prevail over interventionist policies . |
| 30 | The result was that a great deal of effort went into recording the habitats seen to be under threat , and the material collated within the Symposium volume ( Boyd , 1979b ) proved to be of immense value . |