Example sentences of "was [that] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Technical Division confirmed that their view was that such income ceased to be relevant income . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gateway has issued a writ because a condition of sale was that all identification should be removed if the goods were resold . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | One technique they used was that each individual crafted by himself a new conversation to help the writer of the episode . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In the ancient world , the belief was that each person was represented by a star . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A disadvantage of the tribute system was that each gang 's ore had to be kept separately from the others until dressed and sampled . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The idea was that each member of the team would pass on his particular skill to colleagues . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In addition to a single card , each group received a worksheet containing the following instructions : One of the advantages of cutting up the card was that each group , after having recorded its own reconstruction , was able to assemble the narratives proposed by the other groups . |
| 19 | The principle which underlay the concept of Jubilee , ( that all land alienated during the preceding fifty years was to be returned to its original owner or his descendants ) was that each family should not find itself in a position in which it was permanently barred from owning land , the vital productive asset in that economy . |
| 20 | At the outset , my criterion was that each house should be unadulterated and purely of its time . |
| 21 | ‘ The idea was that each publican would have a booklet of facts behind the bar which he could use to settle arguments , ’ says the current editor Peter Matthews . |
| 22 | The thing that worried many people about task allocation was that each client was descended upon for a succession of tasks by a succession of nurses . |
| 23 | The assumption was that each institution would behave like a mini polis , in which all full members of the community would be actively involved in its corporate life . |
| 24 | The tragedy of 1914 was that neither side could accept this obvious compromise because neither could sell it to their own followers . |
| 25 | One of the most extraordinary things about the man 's mind was that any check , any set-back , to some sweet hypothesis , far from dismaying him , seemed immediately to prompt some second hypothesis that soon appeared even sweeter than the first . |
| 26 | In medieval times , the normal presumption of the courts was that any history or implication of consent on the part of the woman was a valid defence to an appeal of rape . |
| 27 | My understanding was that any provision made in accordance with I twelve did not count towards I five |
| 28 | Broadly , apart from the incorporation of East Germany following German unification [ see p. 37659 ] , the Commission 's attitude was that any expansion of the EC 's membership could not be considered until after the implementation of the single internal market , scheduled for the end of 1992 . |
| 29 | All that the legislation provided for was that any loss incurred by the local authorities , as a result of carrying out the regulations , would fall as a charge upon the Exchequer . |
| 30 | l he general conclusion reached here was that any attempt to get behind the early church 's proclamation of Jesus to what Jesus himself had actually believed about himself could only be built on psychological conjecture and historical guesswork . |