Example sentences of "was that a [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So it was that a generation of highly educated women occupied their minds with Bowlby and Spock and The Joy Of Cooking and little else . |
2 | The algorithm originally adopted was that a pixel was to be ON if more than five of the surrounding eight pixels were ON , OFF if fewer than three were ON , and not changed from its existing value if from three to five were ON . |
3 | One puzzling aspect of this notion was that a variety of tyrosine kinases ( receptors and non-receptors ) and possibly other activators , such as certain G-protein-coupled receptors , could all funnel signals into the same , highly conserved recipient , Ras . |
4 | Thus before the 1833 Dower Act , the principle under English common law was that a widow had a life entitlement to one-third of the income from her husband 's former property . |
5 | The corollary to this was that a unit operating according to such principles would have to be trained to arrive on the scene of an operation by every practical method from land , sea or air . |
6 | Their argument was that a male 's potential quality as a parent might be important because , in many species of Old World monkeys , males form strong protective relationships with females and their young , which are crucial in reducing the amount of harassment and competition the young suffer from other members of the group . |
7 | The official explanation was that a finish flag had blown down on to the mechanism and the timing had run on . |
8 | Perrier 's first explanation for the contamination of its water was that a worker at its French plant had mistakenly used the wrong sort of cleaning fluid on bottling equipment . |
9 | ‘ As for the Handscomb case , the ratio decidendi was that a sentence of 27 years was so far beyond anything which the judiciary could have recommended as the appropriate tariff , that the decision to postpone the first review until 1991 was one which no reasonable Secretary of State could have reached . |
10 | An account which remained unchallenged in the press reports was that a girl of 12 had ‘ provoked ’ her death by failing to reveal her age prior to sex play . |
11 | the court of appeal held that foster parents of a child , scalded when she put her foot under hot running water , were not negligent.the majority view was that a parent should not be responsible for unforeseeable accidents of the type which occur in the best homes . |
12 | Affluence was not a matter of gold-plated bath taps or Daimlers or tooth-brushes or mink-handled beer can openers — though these were available — it was a matter of 531 competing brands of coffee or 249 brands of washing powder on the American market , whose only raison d'être was that a change of packaging and advertising ( New Wonder Ingredient ! ) gained them shelf space in the supermarkets until the next brand came along . |
13 | The actual decision of the House was that a proof before answer of the pursuers ' averments should be allowed , but in the course of reaching that decision it was necessary to consider whether they would be entitled to recover overcharges if their complaint of undue discrimination was made out . |
14 | The danger , from the Government 's point of view , was that a well-entrenched , privately owned press would support the interests of those opposed to socialism and whose cause could be served by development along capitalist lines . |
15 | Her major finding was that a relationship appeared to exist between the technology an enterprise operated and the organisational structure of that enterprise . |
16 | The primary submission for Woolwich was that a subject who makes a payment in response to an unlawful demand for tax , or any similar demand , at once acquires a right to recover the amount so paid as money had and received to the subject 's use . |
17 | One interpretation given to this phrase in the 1980s was that a work of art should openly contest a given fact of political or social life in a more or less explicit way . |
18 | The result was that a scratch team made the trip north and in the end were powerless to stop Blaydon running in 15 tries . |
19 | The Executive 's Lesbian and Gay Working Party made a number of points , primary of which was that a candidate 's family — if indeed they had one — was irrelevant to an election campaign which ought to be about the candidate 's political platform . |
20 | The first was that a case such as the present was so rare that it could not of itself call for a fundamental reformulation of the underlying principle — a point which I find unimpressive , when I consider that our task is essentially to do justice between the parties in the particular case before us . |
21 | The boy later wrote his memoirs ; again , I quote : ‘ Mme Picard 's opinion was that a child should be allowed to read everything . |
22 | Now when you moved to was that a kind different kind of work obviously you were doing a wee bit more variety . |
23 | The only proviso was that a layman would be able to recognize the one from the other . |
24 | And the rape — was that a lie too , to catch the silly doctor ? |
25 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
26 | The general rule was that a company could lawfully do only that which fell within the scope of the objects clause . |
27 | The idea was that a system did n't have just a single history in space-time , as one would normally assume it did in a classical nonquantum theory . |
28 | One major theme was that a system of court management of litigation , that is court control over the progress of cases , should be introduced . |
29 | Any sense of humour , of enjoyment and playfulness is totally lacking ; the implication was that a household should be tackled in exactly the same way as an institution : |
30 | What that smarmy jock did not know was that a cousin of Proby , who is in insurance , had insured the grandstand disguised as a car — third party fire and theft . |