Example sentences of "was that [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public impression was that seamen had become substantially worse off during a period in which real wages fell by at least 4% . |
| 2 | Wilson denied strongly that the reason for the campaign against the " Yellow Peril " was that seamen had little else to complain about . |
| 3 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 4 | The fundamental difficulty , nevertheless , was that contemporaries had not ‘ foreseen … that the balance of payments on current account and the change in the gold and dollar reserves would bear little relationship to one another [ Cairncross , 1985 , 79 ] ; in particular there was a heavy outflow of capital to the sterling area . |
| 5 | The effect , however , was that authorities had to live with both a GREA and a target and authorities spending above their target suffered a penalty even if their expenditure was within the GREA figure . |
| 6 | Dr Fleming said the reason was that Germans had a quite different medical tradition and expected to see a specialist . |
| 7 | Mrs Castle 's contribution to this cornucopia of political wisdom and strategic insight was that policies had to be put in their philosophical context to win consent . |
| 8 | The only minor consolation was that prices had fallen just after the war , though that situation was not to last long . |
| 9 | The result was that text-books had to be rewritten . |
| 10 | This is perhaps a little surprising , for in the 1920s and 1930s one of the main arguments against giving women equal pay in the professions was that men have families to support whereas women do not and therefore it was only proper to pay men a higher salary . |
| 11 | What had happened , he explained , was that psychologists had been pushed into the laboratories to work with other scientists and technologists who were there to develop complex machines needed for more efficient slaughter . |
| 12 | His message was that societies had to be understood in terms of their economic structures , and in particular their social relations of production and the conflicts between the different economic classes which exist as a result of those relations . |
| 13 | The good thing about the airlift was that pilots had clear visibility all the way into Tabubil — a rare happening in an area where rain is often measured in feet over a 24-hour period . |
| 14 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 15 | The one feature which occurred in almost every case was that patients had been discouraged from showing feeling and especially from weeping in childhood . |
| 16 | The end result was that stonemasons had three sets of images to play with and blend , invariably at their own discretion : images rooted in earlier pagan beliefs , contemporary medieval life and the Bible . |
| 17 | The story was that trainees had to pass the exam on the third attempt at the latest , or leave . |
| 18 | My first idea was that Mambas had found the relics . |
| 19 | He told the newspaper the only reason he gave false evidence was that police had beaten and threatened him , the prosecution said . |
| 20 | The overwhelming consensus amongst respondents was that microcomputers had made a significant impact on their organizations . |