Example sentences of "of this [noun] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bulk of this expenditure was by the London County Council , formed in 1888 . |
| 2 | Of this $60,000,000 was for the relief of extreme poverty in Jiangxi province and $30,000,000 for repairing earthquake damage in Shanxi and Hebei provinces [ see p. 36815 for deferral of World Bank loans ] . |
| 3 | Clearly some of this work was beyond the scope of the youngest children , nevertheless the reception class joined in wherever possible and their teacher attended all staff meetings and discussions . |
| 4 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |
| 5 | The last flowering of this tradition was in the Tyne Conference of Shop Stewards , established in 1975 in relation to the Labour Party 's White Paper on Industrial Strategy and the consequent Industry Act ( see North Tyne side CDP , 1978b ) . |
| 6 | A false impression of this sort was at the heart of the London Fox property futures scandal . |
| 7 | It is not known whether these were contemporary and whether the settlement of this area was in the form of hamlets before the village was created . |
| 8 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |