Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [pron] was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case it was the prolongation of war which gave an opportunity to men lacking landed ties in England to show how important their presence in France could be . |
| 2 | ‘ Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and … it would operate against every … person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 3 | Clearly it operates against the person who is able to exercise the influence ( in this case it was the father ) and , in my judgment , it would operate against every volunteer who claimed under him , and also against every person who claimed under him with notice of the equity thereby created , or with notice of the circumstances from which the court infers the equity . |
| 4 | And they said , Well you know how to draw up your agenda , and you 'll have something that 's contentious , in this case it was the supply of stationery from three local stationers , from printi local printers . |
| 5 | For this period he was the leader of the party which gave the Government nine-tenths of its majority , but he was only the third man in the hierarchy . |
| 6 | This morning it was the turn of a Cirencester clothes shop . |
| 7 | This week it was the venue for a gathering of bankers , managers , and academics , exploring the future of transport . |
| 8 | Yes sir , I 'm Michael Charles er police Superintendent in the at present stationed at er at the time of this incident I was the operations Superintendent at . |
| 9 | He was the most beautiful creature Dot had ever seen , a creation of this city which was the centre of the world . |
| 10 | This summer it was the scene of the first mass occupation of a plant by strikers in the USA since the 1930s , and has been the focus of much of the non-violent direct action during the seven-month strike . |
| 11 | The house was built by T.H. March ( the then American Consul ) who was an avid collector of plants and at the beginning of this century it was the home of Dr Herbert Watney , a great horticulturist . |
| 12 | This weekend it was the turn of the kart racers … the sport which produced Nigel Mansell , Aryton Senna and most of the world 's top drivers . |
| 13 | This time it was the turn of Pauls , the food division , to thrive on the back of high pig prices and strong demand for malt from the Japanese whisky industry . |
| 14 | This time it was the turn of the large-practice firms and ‘ Barons ‘ to express successfully their concern . |
| 15 | This time it was the turn of the Americans to experience feelings of profound dismay and disappointment . |
| 16 | But this time it was the monks of Canterbury who were offended , for Anselm took their plate to help him pay . |
| 17 | This time it was the others who laughed . |
| 18 | This time it was the specialist defence press that placed the construction of military adaptation on the venture . |
| 19 | By this time it was the middle of the night and there were no lights showing , so I doubt whether anyone saw me mooning out of the window as we sped past but my car horn has been adapted to play Andrew Lloyd-Webber 's arrangement of Purcell at deafening volume and we had fun with that for a bit . |
| 20 | The Orynthia lived on , despite it all — off to Honduras again in March , 1840 , where this time it was the cook who ended up in prison : William Rhodes took her out to Fernando Po , Ascension and India in 1841 , and William Cox was master again on a voyage to the Cape and Burma in 1843 , in which year he sold his half-share to Henry Johnson , a City merchant . |
| 21 | This time it was the kadi who did most of the talking . |
| 22 | This time it was the Leeds building society , again in Oxford , again it was an armed raid . |
| 23 | In this context it was the externality of British Afro-Caribbeans and Asians which was highlighted rather the racist institutions and processes which worked against blacks at all levels of society . |