Example sentences of "was [that] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Historians have to explain how it was that slower increase up to then permitted an expansion of the home market which the later faster rate of population increase did not reverse . |
| 2 | The overall effect was that total spending and hence taxation tended to rise faster than the Cabinet really wanted in the long term . |
| 3 | All I knew was that one afternoon while I was at the office in London someone poured petrol through my letter-box at Seaview , along with a note warning me that if I did n't get out of G.W. Fashions there would be other similarly unpleasant incidents to look forward to , and that next time the petrol would be accompanied by a lighted rag . ’ |
| 4 | One possibility which did not exist for Franca , since something in her had already killed it dead , was that one day Jack might tire of Alison , or Alison of Jack . |
| 5 | The old reductionist 's vision was that one day when we knew enough about genes we would be able to predict every detail of every adult 's behaviour . |
| 6 | My worst fear was that one day she would come to the forge and see me working as a common blacksmith , with black face and hands . |
| 7 | The theory behind the stock editor approach was that one person ( or group of people ) working full time on the bookstock could achieve a more penetrating and unified approach , and that the stock editor could pay more detailed attention to such matters as checks on withdrawals , coverage of specialist reviews , and the perusal of lists of secondhand books . |
| 8 | ‘ What shocked me was that one wall could make such a difference , ’ he said . |
| 9 | And the farther away they were , the more likely it was that one tribe would dominate the district . |
| 10 | The real message that came from this question was that many family and part-time farmers had wives willing to do more than at present . |
| 11 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Yet the conventional wisdom in the transport world of the 1970s was that all progress depended on public investment , public controls and , of course , public ownership . |
| 16 | Gateway has issued a writ because a condition of sale was that all identification should be removed if the goods were resold . |
| 17 | Basically the burden of the Test Act was that all office holders erm all holders of public office had to take an oath of allegiance and had to erm take the sacraments in the Church of England otherwise they could n't hold public office . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | One technique they used was that each individual crafted by himself a new conversation to help the writer of the episode . |
| 20 | An underlying principle of the project was that each school must be free to develop its own proposal and curriculum plan in the light of its own particular setting , needs , and history , and that this was not only practically desirable but also essential if the professional autonomy of the school staff was to be respected . |
| 21 | The advice ( Devon County Council 1990:12 ) was that Each school must decide for itself exactly what to include but it is likely that all schools will want to include the following documents : a statement of the school 's aims and values ; a statement of priorities chosen for development in the current year ; a list of objectives to be tackled in the next two or three years ; an outline of how the curriculum will be developed and specially of how the National Curriculum will be introduced ; staff development plans , including the in-service education and a training plan for the current financial year ; plans for the use and development of the school 's resources ; the school 's approved budget for the current financial year . |
| 22 | The idea was that each film should have a $3 million budget limitation , be in colour and not exceed one hundred and forty minutes , have a rating of G , PG or R , and star or co-star the actor or actress involved . |
| 23 | In the ancient world , the belief was that each person was represented by a star . |
| 24 | The main difference here was that each stone of the tumbling columns was mounted with a photograph of a major country house destroyed in the last hundred years . |
| 25 | A disadvantage of the tribute system was that each gang 's ore had to be kept separately from the others until dressed and sampled . |
| 26 | Earlier we described a paradox which was that each user or group of users has a different need for information and the way that is presented to him . |
| 27 | The essential feature of the gold standard was that each country 's currency had a fixed value in terms of gold ( i.e. gold was the numeraire ) , and therefore exchange rates were effectively fixed . |
| 28 | The idea was that each member of the team would pass on his particular skill to colleagues . |
| 29 | All the information they got should be pooled , the only condition was that each paper was sent to every other paper , and that all could pick up anything they wanted . |
| 30 | What was impressive was that each group had something different in the way of experience to contribute , whether about uranium mining or leukaemia clusters or the advantages of energy saving . |