Example sentences of "[adv] this was [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably this was important to him ( it always was to me and I can fully understand this ) for he wrote the route up in the new routes books asking how others would feel if he subsequently went back and placed a single bolt runner to protect the route . |
| 2 | We do not know how much this was due to poor manufacturing standards or poor pilots , but in any event the authorities dispensed with Tank 's services and he went off to Egypt and then India , where he designed the Hal-Marut , a plane suitable for twice the speed of sound but with engines capable only of less than half that speed . |
| 3 | Perhaps this was due to his near passion for exercise . |
| 4 | working under a headmistress , now sadly died , when the the the head of maths did a presentation to the whole school , so this was prior to nineteen seventy four when she retired . |
| 5 | Early English pop was riddled with homosexuality and that sensibility which we would now call camp — partly this was due to homosexual familiarity with those areas of human activity which were now being exploited , and partly to the early music industry 's seedy beginnings on the fringes of established showbusiness . |
| 6 | Well this was prior to January 1st , when the Natural Death Act became law . |
| 7 | Yet even this was insufficient for the needs of a King who was indebted to the sum of £270,000 . |
| 8 | Firstly , the rice-salt solution failed to fulfil the second criterion , which demands that the materials needed for preparing the mixture should be affordable by all who need them : The actual components of the mixture were readily available , indeed this was one of the reasons which prompted BRAC to substitute rice for the less readily available gur . |
| 9 | An attempt was made in Parliament to restrict the power to intercept for security reasons to cases where this was necessary for the defence of the realm or to prevent subversion , terrorism , or espionage — still wider than the guidelines but much closer to their spirit than the statute . |
| 10 | Sadly this was one of the last public appearances in London of Sir William Heseltine , before he returns to his native Australia this autumn . |
| 11 | The circular asked local planning authorities to consider the formal designation of clearly defined green belts wherever this was desirable in order : |