Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] this [noun sg] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among places he surveyed at this time were the park of Auckland Castle and Lanchester Common . |
| 2 | The public silence was broken early in 1987 by Marxism Today , who can seldom resist a bandwagon , even if they often fall under the wheels in the process ; and the particular bandwagon they joined on this occasion was the one about what the Tories had labelled ‘ Loony Left ’ councils . |
| 3 | Numerous people ran into debt from being unable or unwilling to settle their credit card accounts at all or in full each month , and allowing their purchases to grow in price as every month passed , but the sums people in Britain owed in this way was a very small proportion of the total outstanding personal credit granted , which in 1987 Janet Ford reckoned in her book The Indebted Society was £30,000 million . |
| 4 | Among the informants he met in this way was a Lebanese Army officer known as ‘ The Captain' , with close connections to the Jafaar clan . |
| 5 | It was perhaps inevitable that one of the benefits that both the wives and husbands saw from this approach was a reduction in stock losses . |
| 6 | What I liked about this letter was the phrase ‘ if you tell me that I have it ’ . |
| 7 | What emerged from this process was the English national round hand . |
| 8 | In fact , when the Labour Party did come to power in 1964 , the only documentation they possessed on this subject was a single sheet of paper provided by myself , recommending among other things the establishment of rent officers , an idea in which I was subsequently able to interest Dick Crossman . |
| 9 | Indeed , a major theme which emerged at this time was the lack of attention given by employers to the age structure of their work-forces and the consequent lack of encouragement to older people to see themselves as potentially economically viable . |
| 10 | Erm printed in the official copy for this but left off this copy were the names , also the Reverend of Glangothwyn and the Reverend Victor of Hamwell Erm does anybody else wish to make any comments on the minutes of . |
| 11 | The only comfort I had during this time was a farmer 's daughter in my class at school called Tina . |
| 12 | The most startling insight I gained from this meeting was the proportion of overall growth in housing provision being made to satisfy migration from England . |