Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [adj] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was just one of the many problems in getting ashore . |
| 2 | She was curious as to where they were going , but so far Wayne had refused to say ; as far as she knew , this was just one of the Estate roads and it led nowhere . |
| 3 | This was just one of the many ways in which LASMO helped Mujadid while he was in London . |
| 4 | This was just one of the tips given at the class at the Bellinger Garage at Grove in Oxfordshire . |
| 5 | This was also one of the main conclusions reached by Alan B. Shaw in his brilliant little book Time in Stratigraphy . |
| 6 | Usually again there was a department which controlled the internal administration of the ministry and its finances ; sometimes this was also involved in the appointment and promotion of diplomats . |
| 7 | This was also apparent in the family health services authority officers I met — I was impressed by their commitment , vision , and leadership qualities . |
| 8 | This was also true of the tragic Crowley expedition to the world 's third highest mountain , Kinchinjunga , in 1905 . |
| 9 | As seen in Chapter 3 , this was also true in the nineteenth century , despite lower clergy support particularly for the Fenian movement . |
| 10 | This was even noticeable through the haze of the drug Leila had given her to superficially suppress such feelings . |
| 11 | This was immediately prior to the Nicholson ‘ star ’ era ; the wave of which he rode the crest was beginning to build and it is interesting to chronicle for a moment some of the events leading up to his ‘ discovery ’ as a major Hollywood personality — a hero of the age and one who , as we have seen , was much influenced by the existentialist prophecies of Kerouac , which were now , finally , coming home to roost in middle-class America and elsewhere . |
| 12 | The concentration on wealth-generating activities rather than social programmes ; this was most apparent in the creation of enterprise zones . |
| 13 | This was most evident on the wide plains of the south-western United States and several parts of South America , where cattle multiplied virtually without human effort , herded by gauchos , llaneros , vaqueros and cowboys , and called loudly to all profit-minded citizens for means of converting it into money . |
| 14 | This was most evident in the fact that the provision banning sympathetic strike action in the 1927 Trade Disputes and Trade Unions Act was never tested in the courts . |
| 15 | This was most evident in the two key-note speeches . |
| 16 | In some cases the government 's attempts to tighten its control and impose administrative and cultural uniformity created nationalist opposition where virtually none had existed : this was most evident in the Baltic provinces dominated by a Germanic aristocracy and in the semi-autonomous Duchy of Finland . |
| 17 | This was most evident in the statutory requirements concerning industrial relations that were universal in the British nationalization acts , and the creation of complex machinery for consultation and negotiation with staff ( see Chester 1975 : ch. 8 ; Clegg 1951 : ch. 3 ) . |
| 18 | This was particularly blatant in the case of the UDCs which to all intents and purposes supplanted local authorities as planning authorities . |
| 19 | This was particularly noticeable among the younger policemen , for whom this imagery seems to be a defining characteristic of their work . |
| 20 | All this was particularly noticeable in the summer of 1992 when billions of pounds ( some say as much as £20 billion ) of foreign reserves ( £7.2 billion of which had been especially borrowed for the purpose ) were spent by the Bank of England in a vain attempt to prop up the exchange value of sterling . |
| 21 | This was particularly apparent among the doctors , who rarely participated fully in TQM initiatives , pursuing their own system of medical audit . |
| 22 | This was particularly true during the economic recessions of the early 1980s and early 1990s , when rapidly expanding social security payments , high interest rates and substantial debt interest payments meant that public expenditure totals continued to rise as a proportion of National Income . |
| 23 | This was particularly true for the capital . |
| 24 | This was particularly true of the first essential step of holding a council . |
| 25 | This was particularly true of the unemployed . |
| 26 | This was particularly true of the lord of Issoudun , since he was Robert of Dreux , King Philip 's cousin . |
| 27 | This was particularly true of the vast heathlands of western Norfolk and of Lincolnshire . |
| 28 | This was particularly true of the highly organised rhetoric of some literary language . |
| 29 | This was particularly true of the thinking of the US navy and air force . |
| 30 | This was particularly true of the Whigs , under the leadership of the Junto lords : John Somers , Edward Russell ( who became Earl of Orford ) , Thomas Wharton , Charles Montagu ( who became the Earl of Halifax ) , and later also Charles Spencer , the third Earl of Sunderland . |