Example sentences of "was that [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was that as March 1981 drew to a close , Branson telephoned Rodney Birbeck , the editor of Music Week — the trade ‘ Bible ’ of the British record industry — and invited him to lunch . |
| 2 | Irrespective of size , status or skills everyone was brought down to earth with a splash — the difference was that as Saturday 's play unfolded the seeded sides invariably proved to be the more adept in the art of ‘ aquaplaning ’ . |
| 3 | Until the mid-seventeenth century the essential distinction ( oversimplifying somewhat ) was that between ambassadors , either ordinary ones resident for some length of time or extraordinary ones sent for some special and limited purpose , and lesser diplomatic representatives referred to by a variety of different titles — resident , minister , agent , etc . |
| 4 | Sociologically the difference between working and middle classes was that between servant-keepers and potential servants , and was so used in Seebohm Rowntree 's pioneer social survey of York at the end of the century . |
| 5 | Another Southern Region service axed was that between Tunbridge Wells Central and Eridge which finished on 6 July 1985 . |
| 6 | The most significant and direct connection with Germany , however , was that between Delaunay and the artists of the Blaue Reiter . |
| 7 | Another incongruity was that between de Gaulle 's ambition and the resources at his disposal . |
| 8 | The reason was that at midnight , five-and-a-half hours after the evening 's entertainment was due to begin , further education , tertiary and sixth form colleges left county council control . |
| 9 | One such was that at Charfield built during the first half of the 19th century . |
| 10 | ‘ The difference was that at Virgin , in answering the question ‘ what do we do well ? ’ people immediately thought in terms of the customer whereas in the health service you have to tease it out . |
| 11 | Jimmy said he really enjoyed playing , but his slight worry about it was that at £13.99 it might prove expensive for the unemployed . |
| 12 | The main substance to their complaints was that at £26 a ticket they were not receiving value for money . |
| 13 | The reason was that at Trico the district committee ( which in the engineering union structure is a very important body ) was dominated by the left while at Electrolux it was controlled by the right . |
| 14 | The only new Mission for the deaf that seems to have opened for the first time in the 1890s was that at Oxford , although the deaf people of Bradford almost lost their own when a fire was discovered in the coal cellar under the offices by one of the deaf members who ran to summon the fire brigade from its nearby station . |
| 15 | The unusual thing about this was that at Binbrook there was an engineering type called Matthew , a corporal , who also played this instrument , and it did n't take long for the two to discover each other . |
| 16 | The measure of his performance was that at lunch he held a nine-stroke lead over the other morning starters . |
| 17 | To achieve this he carried it over roads and streams by means of aqueducts , of which the most notable was that at Barton ( two hundred yards long and nearly forty feet above the Irwell ) , crossed valleys by embankments , cut through hills where they were unavoidable , and followed the contours where possible . |
| 18 | Such great open-air markets can be seen at Northampton , Newark and Leicester , for example , and most notable of all was that at Nottingham , where the vast triangular market place covers five-and-a-half acres and was once even larger . |
| 19 | Stones were also set up along the Great North Road in 1708 , but the first true milestone to be set up in Britain since Roman times was that at Trumpington , just outside Cambridge , in 1727 , where it is still to be seen . |
| 20 | Thus it was that on Monday 6 March the summit took place at Brigham Young University involving administrators and scientists from the two universities . |
| 21 | A criticism made by those in both parties who were opposed to the appointment was that on Mr Harold Macmillan 's prompting the Queen had allowed herself to be urged prematurely into a decision without having at her disposal all the available evidence about feeling in the Conservative Party . |
| 22 | Thus it was that on Friday , 17 March the university press officer interviewed Fleischmann and Pons , who were even then in the process of revising their preliminary note , and the office had a press release ready by the Monday morning . |
| 23 | In the Seventies and early Eighties the general opinion was that for women to ‘ make it ’ they had to act like men but now the rules are different , says author Sally Helgerson in her recently published bestseller The Female Advantage : Women 's Ways of Leadership . |
| 24 | And what was that about Cathy and Angie do n't get one with ? |
| 25 | Now what was that about Food and Drink you wanted to see ? |
| 26 | A possibility originally considered by Lubow and Moore ( 1959 ) as an explanation for their newly discovered latent inhibition effect was that during pre-exposure the subject might come to perform some response to the stimulus that interfered with the response monitored during conditioning . |
| 27 | One of the hypotheses I was considering was that during REM sleep ( and therefore during REM sleep dreams ) the entire memory system is accessible — none of the inhibitions present during wakeful life are active , and new memories can be fitted in to the appropriate cognitive structures during REM sleep . |
| 28 | The difference , Cormac thought , was that under Emma 's care Northumbria had never been allowed to become a threat to Wessex . |
| 29 | The company 's argument was that under s 45(3) an employer need only offer alternative employment ‘ where there is a suitably available vacancy ’ . |
| 30 | If I may my Lord there is an issue that was raised in my learned friends reply er which er was a new point er and where I do take issue with him and this concerns the issue of the relevance of the directive here the , the issue relating to er whether or not the er Lloyd 's Act and the society have got any relevance in respect of the directive , his submission as I understood it , was that under article one , eight , nine the directive only addressed itself to states , to the British Government and that therefore the reliance on the directive by the society and in relation to the Lloyds Act was er a misconceived er reliance . |