Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] this [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development which really strengthened the governments , however , was the tendency , beginning in Paris in February 1961 , for European leaders to meet in ‘ summits ’ where major decisions were taken , even though no provision for this existed in the Rome treaty . |
| 2 | The necessity for this arose from the catastrophic collapse in mining employment . |
| 3 | The irony of this lay in the fact that the Second Crusade was counter-productive in Outremer , embittered relations with Byzantium , and resulted in the deaths of enormous numbers of its participants , particularly those drawn from the non-aristocratic classes . |
| 4 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 5 | The stimulus for this came from the desire by some landowners to raise the efficiency of sheep rearing to take advantage of the wool trade with the Netherlands . |
| 6 | For many months virtually everywhere in the Soviet Union stocks in state shops of even basic foodstuffs such as bread had been growing increasingly erratic , although some of the blame for this lay in the withholding of deliveries to the state supply network by farms and local authorities , in anticipation of prices rising or to meet local needs [ for indications of breakdown in the distribution system in May see p. 37538 ] . |
| 7 | An article about this appeared in The Tiger Rag and a copy was sent to Downing Street and duly acknowledged . |
| 8 | The obvious unfairness of this led to the practice of providing , on issues of non-participating preference shares by public companies , that on redemption or any return of capital the amount repaid should be tied to the average quoted price in the months before . |
| 9 | To be honest , I 've found the other paths to be much quicker to use , but it is very nice to have a fine tuning tool like this included in the package . |
| 10 | The first evidence of this surfaced on the second trip that I made to Rhodesia , in April 1971 . |
| 11 | An example of this came during the disability awareness course . |
| 12 | An example of this occurred in the Nick Kent piece where Geoff Travis described a sardonic and disgruntled Mark E. Smith antagonising a visibly shaken Morrissey by calling him ‘ Steven ’ . |
| 13 | The most notable example of this occurred in the county in 1264 , when the troops of Simon de Montfort defeated Henry Ill at the Battle of Lewes . |
| 14 | A vivid example of this occurred in the Hadmor case [ 1983 ] 1 A.C. 191 where Lord Denning in the Court of Appeal relied on his own researches into Hansard in reaching his conclusions : in the House of Lords , counsel protested that there were other passages to which he would have wished to draw the court 's attention had he known that Lord Denning was looking at Hansard : see the Hadmor case at p. 233 . |
| 15 | Whereas in the past there have been various pressure groups setting themselves up as having a special reason for being heard thanks to their scientific credentials , perhaps the wisest comment on this came from the professor who , while urging scientists to make their voices heard , also urged them not to make any special claims to knowledge or understanding of the issues just because they were scientists . |
| 16 | Concern about this led to the appointment of the Plowden Committee on the Planning and Control of Public Expenditure which reported in 1961 . |
| 17 | One was precious because it was a folio , and another because it was a duodecimo ; some because they were tall , some because they were short ; the merit of this lay in the title-page — of that in the arrangement of the letters in the word Finis . |
| 18 | The reason for this lay in the nature of the work done by the Indians … |
| 19 | The ecclesiastically most delicate application of this lay in the area of collegiality . |
| 20 | However , I have never seen a copy of this circulated at the subdivision level at any location I have worked ; and outside force HQ the availability of any research or analytic literature on policing falls off dramatically . |
| 21 | My own interest in this began in the late 1970s as the situation was beginning to worsen . |