Example sentences of "was [conj] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term . |
| 2 | His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation . |
| 3 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 4 | The result was that Roman Dmowski , one of the two Polish leaders in Paris , was reduced to despair and frustration by Wilson s attitude over Danzig . |
| 5 | The Conservative view was that economic development should not be fashioned by the state but should rise from the natural operation of a free market economy . |
| 6 | The basic argument was that traditional conservatism should re-establish itself by an uncompromising opposition to liberalism and socialism and by combating the supposed international Jewish conspiracy whose sole purpose was the undermining of the British Empire . |
| 7 | The fact was that Wagnerian music drama claimed a relationship with Greek tragedy and that the new status of music drama in Nietzsche 's thoughts sufficed to activate and inform an interest he had taken in the Greek tragedians years before : witness his Pforta dissertation on the Oedipus Rex ( which , prophetically enough , actually alluded at one point to the analogy between Wagner and the Greeks ) . |
| 8 | The reason was that public confidence in the quality of the coinage depended on the retention of an ‘ immobilised ’ , i.e. unchanging , design ( see also p. 14 and fig. 9 ) . |
| 9 | The result was that public perception of My Lai was crucially altered and Americans came to believe that Calley and his men had inadvertently killed some Vietnamese civilians in the heat of battle . |
| 10 | Hare wondered aloud on television why it was that English culture had lost the ability to state clearly that Keats was a better poet , for example , than Bob Dylan . |
| 11 | His conclusion was that four-point alignment was strong evidence of design rather than accident . |
| 12 | Mr Prais said the accused had been receiving treatment for depression at the State Hospital in Carstairs and the Crown 's view was that psychiatric help should be continued . |
| 13 | Given these premises , then , anything which allowed native populations to challenge the principle let alone the practice of assimilation was to be avoided ; and the ultimate argument was that French culture would simply make the native ‘ an enemy better armed against us ’ . |
| 14 | The other argument was that different description types might merely reduce the tendency to group the atomic elements together without any prediction regarding which singular continuation would predominate . |
| 15 | The net result was that Parliamentary control over the terms of the Bill was less than adequate . |
| 16 | The argument was that crustal shortening within the continents would produce the same displacement of underlying layers , but the seas would be spread wider and therefore lower . |
| 17 | The result was that miserable document and philosophy known as the Memorandum . |
| 18 | The main direction of the editorial 's argument was that positive discrimination was ‘ dangerous muddling ’ . |
| 19 | The upshot was that Hungarian nationalism was stimulated and Joseph was forced to rescind most of his reforms in 1790 . |
| 20 | The most prevalent view was that physical science consisted of a body of hard , certain and fundamental knowledge . |
| 21 | His dreams had come back after many nights which had seemed as empty as death , dreams of walking between high hedges , it was daylight on the other side of them but gloaming where he was and thick earth rose up to his knees , to his waist , stopping him , he tried to open his mouth but his jaw-bones jammed , he was choking … |
| 22 | This was and excellent example . |
| 23 | That was until United goalkeeper Debbie Phillips was sent off for using foul and abusive language , and replaced by impressive stand-in , woman of the match Kate Wells . |
| 24 | If ideas as such were discounted , it was because imaginative literature , in its richness and blend of diversity and harmony , had other things to offer . |
| 25 | According to the radical Right , it was because free market forces had been stultified by the welfare state and the managed economy … . |
| 26 | In part this was because feminist energy was increasingly channelled into anti-war and anti-fascist activity . |
| 27 | Ah , let me just say what leaders of peacetime Margaret was after early life was that a cold mother who was erm , full of personality People of London biography of the leader of the Conservative , because at least half the book is about |
| 28 | A fundamental issue was whether religious authority was ultimately vested in an ecclesiastical succession or in the Bible alone . |
| 29 | Nor can any reconstructed , facsimile wilderness ever approach the condition of nature as it was before human influence became dominant . |