Example sentences of "was that [det] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The result was that many deaf men were unable to obtain work . |
| 2 | The important recommendation was that all non-seminoma patients should have abdominal ( 10 or 12.5 mm spacing ) and thoracic ( 20 mm spacing ) CTs at diagnosis and at fixed intervals during follow-up ; the thoracic CT was to be done with both lung and mediastinal window . |
| 3 | However , the most important power was that all designated districts could declare Industrial Improvement Areas . |
| 4 | Equally important to the maintenance of Labour 's new-found unity in the closing stages of the war was that all leading figures now sensed the possibility of major political advances after the war . |
| 5 | Maybe it was that that precarious balance in her nature — that he loved . |
| 6 | One recommendation advanced by both reports was that each primary school should have a ‘ teacher-consultant ’ who would act as leader in these specialist subject areas . |
| 7 | Hollywood had captured the British film audience and what was worse was that those English films that were made were all too prepared to ape Hollywood conventions . |
| 8 | The difficulty was that any additional building — of squash-courts , swimming pool , or even classrooms — could by now only take place at the expense of valuable playing-field space . |
| 9 | Strictly speaking , Freud 's view was that any individual superego is the internalization not of their parents as such , but of their parents ' superego . |
| 10 | Outlining the proposals , which will be put in writing to the Bank of England task force set up in to pick up the pieces after Taurus , Mr Pearson said the key point was that any new system should focus solely on the professional market — leaving the private shareholder with paper certificates and the existing fortnightly settlement system . |
| 11 | ‘ What was novel in the fifteenth century was that these rich people ( the upper middle classes ) began to build splendid dwellings for themselves in such great numbers ’ writes Mr Thornton , and the fact that interior decoration appears in something approaching its present-day form in this period is the key to this book . |
| 12 | The effect , for them at least , was that these normative bonds were loosened . |
| 13 | A major advantage of this type of input was that these basic validation checks were made at input time and any errors detected were displayed back to the operator immediately , thus allowing corrections to be made quickly . |
| 14 | Controlling and reproducing the cell was , it seemed , all about controlling and reproducing information ; and what distinguished the molecules that embodied this new idea , proteins , DNA and RNA , from the much more boring small molecules that until then biochemists had worked with was that these giant molecules seemed to embody information ; they were , it appeared , informational macromolecules . |
| 15 | As John Maynard-Smith knows , I 've always been , in a less expert way than he , a Darwinist and I 've always felt , and you exemplified that tonight , I think , John , the beauty if the situation was that these profound theories corresponded with what a man of good sense , rationality , unswayed by prejudice and emotion , would be bound to belief when faced with the evidence . |
| 16 | His objection was that these poetic celebrations of the coarse side of army life were an offence against English traditions of Christian civilisation , forming part of a larger ‘ back wave ’ which was manifesting itself in various ways : ‘ the Hooligan in Politics , in Literature , and Journalism ’ , ‘ the Hooligan spirit of patriotism ’ , and all the other barbaric symptoms of ‘ the restless and uninstructed Hooliganism of the time ’ above which ‘ the flag of a Hooligan Imperialism is raised ’ . |
| 17 | All they could imagine was that some new sort of tax was to be imposed on them . |
| 18 | When poor James Bulger was found , the assumption ( uncomfortably like a dark hope ) was that some other-world fiend had done away with him . |
| 19 | Later of course as up this early infantile attitude where you idolize your parents becomes replaced by a more rational and so on , but Freud 's finding was that this early attitude in childhood does n't get er abolished , it just gets repressed , it 's forced out of conscious because you true and of course things that are not true have to be removed consciousness , but they can not be erased , so they 're forced into the unconscious and they live in the unconscious and they feed myths like the Myth of the Birth of the Hero and all of us in our er erm in our er conscious see the hero as a , as a parental figure that reflects the family romance , the idea that once we were , we were a special child with very special parents . |
| 20 | The general opinion was that this long-awaited package definitely was n't a good Windows product . |
| 21 | My reason for being there was that this particular bit of coast happens to be the northern end of the Offa 's Dyke footpath , which winds for 168 miles along the English/Welsh border to Chepstow . |
| 22 | wrote to all the same places again this year and the response we got back from the schools was that this particular year they 've got nobody coming forward who they consider would |
| 23 | What the bishops and the politicians had come up against in the Mother and Child controversy was that this paternalistic conceptualization was intrinsically at odds with the common understanding of democracy . |
| 24 | But so it was that this Hungarian son of a would-be inventor moved towards his abiding preoccupation with scientific ideas . |
| 25 | The first was that this contractual conception of the company conflicted with the theory prevailing in the case-law that treated the company as an artificial entity , separate and distinct from its shareholders . |
| 26 | The supreme irony of the Manchester City affair was that several rival clubs , notably Manchester United , signed the suspended players , offering substantial signing-on fees ( contrary to FA rules ) as well as a transfer fee to the club . |
| 27 | What they could n't see though was that another interested spectator was Rico d'Agostino in the stalls . |
| 28 | The fact was that both young women shared an unspoken anxiety for Fleury 's safety and though Louise had not yet confided her feelings for him to Miriam , she really did not need to do so for these feelings were plain enough already . |