Example sentences of "this [noun] [was/were] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This grant was in support of the conference . |
| 2 | Yet , if we take this together with the fact that many other forms characteristic of modern English spread in these centuries from the East Midlands and the North , we can advance the hypothesis that this change was in progress in the East Midlands around 1300 , and look for further evidence to support or refute this . |
| 3 | Even if some process of this kind was at work , one still has to explain the differences between women 's responses — why did some women describe themselves as housewives and others not ? |
| 4 | Perhaps the most serious dispersal of this kind was from Brent Library in the mid-1980s . |
| 5 | All week long , the Hollywood gossip about this case was of drugs , mysticism and off-beat sex , and for once there may be more truth than fantasy in the flashy talk of the town . ’ |
| 6 | The site of this settlement was in Bredcroft or ‘ Bradcroft ’ meadow , and in the nineteenth century there was still evidence of its existence . |
| 7 | According to Moody , this play was in draft form by April 1923 . |
| 8 | After Strahler one of the earliest movements in this direction was by E. Yatsu in Rock Control in Geomorphology , which proposed a quantitative approach to the underlying mechanics of processes , and as Yatsu ( 1966 ) remarked : |
| 9 | On the prosecutor 's appeal to the Divisional Court this decision was in turn reversed . |
| 10 | This contract was worth $72 million . |
| 11 | This department was for years managed by John Aldersley @ £6 : 0s. : 0d. per month and Daniel Bowden at £5 : 0s. : 0d . |
| 12 | ‘ I suppose this witness was in connection with the Mills case ? ’ |
| 13 | Whilst this chapter was in preparation , a further CCETSW publication , Research by Social Workers — Capitalizing on Experience ( 1989 ) was published . |
| 14 | Anyone with ears to hear must have noted Hitler 's words , that ‘ we had no idea , how gigantic the preparations of this enemy were against Germany and Europe , and how immensely great the danger was , how narrowly we have avoided this time the destruction not only of Germany , but of the whole of Europe ’ . |
| 15 | In fact this aircraft was in operation with 112 Squadron from June 3 , 1944 until June 22 , 1944 when 112 were equipped with Mustang IIIs . |
| 16 | Imagine his surprise when reading the article on the Benson Bf 109G in your July issue to find that this aircraft was in fact one of ‘ his ’ ! |
| 17 | We are able to calculate the population for the late 17th century when a census was taken throughout Kent to enumerate the various religious bodies i.e. the number of Conformists , Catholics and Nonconformists , the return for Hailing showing 60 Conformists , no Catholics or Nonconformists , so allowing this figure was for adults only and allowing an average of 40 children for 60 adults this gives us a total of 100 . |
| 18 | While this manuscript was in preparation , the genomic clone of the mouse brain-2 gene was isolated and sequenced [ 15 ] . |
| 19 | The desire that he felt for Bowler , and which he admitted to David Tindle while this portrait was in progress , is made palpable in the finished work through the gentle , even pressure of the dusky light as it falls on the sitter 's head , hands and feet . |
| 20 | This act was in opposition to Philip , who when the city had fallen , demanded that his own flag be raised over it , thus adding his own stake to any claim made upon Tancred . |
| 21 | The object of this exercise was for advisers to gain a view of the school from the eyes of a pupil — to experience the school day as a particular pupil would . |
| 22 | ‘ I am not satisfied , accordingly , despite the affidavit of Miss Heal ’ — a barrister in the Crown Office of the Attorney-General of Ontario — ‘ that the removal of this child was in breach of the rights of custody attributed to the father — because , in my judgment , he had no rights of custody — or in the court , because , in my judgment , the court had given custody to the mother . |
| 23 | This work was of course in addition to , and quite separate from , the long-established provision for trade unionists run in conjunction with the WETUC , which also enjoyed some expansion during the 1950s : in 1953–54 , for example , there were five residential weekend schools for trade unionists , in 1958–59 there were eight . |
| 24 | While this work was in progress , a murine homolog , denoted T160 , was cloned by others who used recombination signal sequence probes to identify proteins involved in V(D)J recombination ( 22 ) . |
| 25 | Built by Kruesi for Thomas Edison in 1877 , this machine was on display in the Science Museum in London until its return to America in the 1920s . |
| 26 | This trait was in evidence last week as the president , Leonid Kravchuk , threw his country into a constitutional crisis . |
| 27 | While this campaign was in force , Sweden was the only country to register a fall in the reported number of cases of gonorrhoea . |
| 28 | Amiss was stunned by the courtesy and curiously uplifted to find that not everyone in this establishment was like Colonel Fagg . |
| 29 | This process was under way by c . |
| 30 | It was necessary for me to ensure that this fish was in fact leading the others . |