Example sentences of "that this [noun sg] was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He decided that this clergyman was in the clouds and out of the reach of the common man . |
| 2 | Tacitus tells us that this incursion was into the territory of Rome 's allies , and this could place it in the lower Severn , where Caratacus could have linked up with the other group of dissidents in the south-west still smarting from the operations of Vespasian , who with his sea-borne mobility swept right along the south coast , taking the Britons by surprise . |
| 3 | He was alarmed at the possibility that this lad was from the village and that the village was rife with gossip . |
| 4 | One can only surmise that this arrangement was for the programming convenience of the television station which covered the matches . |
| 5 | It would seem that this distinction was in the mind of the United Kingdom delegation in formulating their Working Document No. 10 , and that the subsequent references to ‘ discovery ’ served only to confuse the issues . |
| 6 | At the same time I became aware of the fact that this opera was on the stocks . |
| 7 | It was more than possible that this businessman was in the business of spying . |