Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This finding was incompatible with a simple thermonuclear origin . |
| 2 | He goes on to explain that this change was fundamental to the development of Combined Operations as he was then able to order the ships and craft , and requisition bases among the other resources controlled by the Minister of Defence ( Winston Churchill ) . |
| 3 | A more dynamic approach of this kind was possible with the advent of computers which could analyse the necessary amounts of synoptic data . |
| 4 | OLD , NEW , BORROWED , BLUE Fender ‘ 62 Vintage Re-issue This guitar was responsible for a spontaneous ‘ down tools ’ when it arrived here last week . |
| 5 | This case was successful from a conservation viewpoint , although a considerable investment of time and resources was required from a consortium of interests , which had to take financial risks . |
| 6 | This case was concerned with the same facts as Wagon Mound ( No 1 ) and the same defendants . |
| 7 | This technique was compatible with a more open-ended view of natural relationships , although most naturalists were as yet unwilling to concede that life could have developed solely in response to adaptive pressures . |
| 8 | This Eurocentrism was inevitable at a time when in Europe only European history was at all well known , and Marx 's and Engels 's ‘ general ’ stages often read like little more than a generalized history of western Europe . |
| 9 | This inter-relatedness was akin to a web rather than a chain — with complicating overlapping functions — since a great many organisms were parasites on all sorts of organic and biological life . |
| 10 | According to the Independent on Sunday of Aug. 25 , the delay in taking this decision was due to the efforts of Gen. Varennikov , who had offered not to interfere in Ukrainian affairs if Ukraine accepted SCSE government . |
| 11 | But this friction was beneficial for the students , as they not only learnt a rigorous method of representation but also were exposed to more liberal attitudes . |
| 12 | This department was responsible for the eventual establishment of school clinics throughout the country , but only slowly and after considerable controversy . |
| 13 | The measurement unit used in this study was similar to a flowchart showing the procedures undertaken to store , retrieve and deliver information to users , which enabled the analysts to consider the possible effects of the proposed solutions on each phase . |
| 14 | This Review was subject to a number of appeals for re-assessment , but the final recommendations , as described in the Times Higher Education Supplement ( Anon 1988 ) were that : Aberdeen should not support research in the earth sciences , ( although lobbying from the petroleum industry and politicians ensured the continuation of its highly successful M Sc courses in petroleum geology ) ; the Geology Department at St Andrews should merge with Geography ; and that Glasgow should incorporate the departments at Dundee , Stirling and Strathclyde . |
| 15 | Both underweight and overweight women had a lower chance of becoming pregnant than women with normal weight , although this effect was greater for the obese than for the lean women . |
| 16 | ( 44 ) showed that the POU domains of Oct-1 , Oct-2A , Oct-6/SCIP/Tst-1 and Pit-1 induce DNA bending and that this effect was due to the POU S domain . |
| 17 | But this effect was weaker in the Second World War than in the First . |
| 18 | This effect was symmetrical for the two visual fields , suggesting that there is no hemisphere difference in persistence of the icon . |
| 19 | This indication was helpful to the sub-editor as well as the type-setter . |
| 20 | This interview was typical of the situation described by several students . |
| 21 | The Inland Revenue eventually decided that this practice was contrary to the legislation on PRP schemes , and put an end to it in a Statement of Practice ( SP7/92 , see ACCOUNTANCY , October , p 103 ) . |
| 22 | Whereas this practice was widespread in the UK , it was banned in most other EC member states ; UK observers noted that its abolition in the UK would force UK institutions to double their cash holdings , a factor which they said would raise costs and which could thus jeopardize the dominant position of the London market in European equity trading ( see also p. 36494 ) . |
| 23 | The existence of radiocarbon in nature was predicted before it was detected , and this prediction was sufficient for an American scientist called Willard Libby to perceive the basis of a dating method . |
| 24 | The start of this session was one of the very few occasions when we specifically told the pupils how to conduct part of an activity . |
| 25 | This plan was dependent on the restitution to Solvay of its formerly sequestered site ; an agreement on this has been reached see ( Chem . |
| 26 | Around 10 km 3 of volcanic debris was hurled into the atmosphere during the famous 1883 eruption of Krakatau ( Krakatoa ) in Indonesia , but more than ten times this quantity was involved in the 1815 eruption of Tambora , another Indonesian volcano . |
| 27 | This adage was true in the days when pears were grafted onto a miscellany of vigorous rootstocks , which encouraged the growth of great , large trees which took many years before they settled down to cropping . |
| 28 | This law was implicit in the definition of a compound given above . |
| 29 | NAM Chairman Roger Bryan felt it was very important to remember every effort made at fund-raising , while at the time the work might have seemed far removed from aviation preservation , this work was incremental in the success of the overall project . |
| 30 | The resolution of this issue was one of the USA 's main conditions for establishing diplomatic ties and lifting its trade embargo , in place since 1975 . |