Example sentences of "this [was/were] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The village youths had taken to roaring round and round of an evening on highly powered Japanese motorcycles from which the silencers had been removed ; those distressed by this were invoking the law , the youths laughed , their friends and relations pointed out that they 'd paid their road-tax , had n't they , like anyone else ? |
| 2 | To this were added the effects of the transformation of the social structure by industrialization and urbanization in the more advanced areas ( Austria , the Czech lands , etc . ) . |
| 3 | If to this were added the effects of a special pension at 60 for those who were unemployed , a new invalidity pension , the raising of the school-leaving age to sixteen and a uniform forty-hour week , a total of 2,000,000 jobs would be redistributed to the unemployed . |
| 4 | If this were to occur the pricing efficiency of the market would worsen . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had been closer to the truth than she had at first suspected with her taunts about Theo Quinn ; and , although she no longer wanted Ben , she felt that , if this were to prove the case , it would be a great waste of promising material . |
| 6 | The effect of this was to relieve the debtor of all liability for their debts . |
| 7 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 8 | This was to tip the balance of power decisively against Northumberland . |
| 9 | When this was discovered the respondent was arrested on 19 October 1990 . |
| 10 | This was made the payoff in the Sunday Correspondent 's interview with the PM , though it has since emerged that the sequence of the conversation was altered . |
| 11 | The chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 12 | The Chip Shop is going to extend into the vacant shop next door and this was given the go ahead for a trial period of one year . |
| 13 | The purpose of this was to compare the experience of and attitude to the police of Blacks , Asians and Whites living in roughly the same conditions . |
| 14 | To appreciate this was to see the problem as ultimately a problem of living , and as uniquely relevant to a recently unified and politically ascendant Germany . |
| 15 | This was to see the Sadler 's Wells Royal Ballet dance Les Sylphides , and The Two Pigeons , at a performance commemorating the life and work of the late Sir Frederick Ashton , who gave us so many wonderful productions . |
| 16 | On the other was the abbey of St Martial and the castle of the Viscount ; this was called the citadel , the castrum . |
| 17 | The second session began in March and finished at the end of July , and this was called the Summer Term , though in fact it was still extremely cold and wintry when term began . |
| 18 | On the Von Neumann computer this was called the arithmetic register ( AR ) ; but it is more commonly referred to as the multiplier-quotient ( MQ ) or quotient ( Q ) register . |
| 19 | The result of this was to plant the seed of Mosley 's destruction . |
| 20 | This was to open the Jackie Stewart Shooting School at Gleneagles , which is most efficiently run by Mr Justin Jones son of Mr Alan Jones , who with his brother Noel Jones , run the North Wales Shooting School at Sealand , that was started by their father . |
| 21 | The Stop Hinkley Expansion group complained to the Inspector , arguing that this was jumping the gun and a waste of public money , despite the CEGB claim that if it did n't order these parts in advance , at its own risk , it would never keep to its construction timetable . |
| 22 | The purpose of this was to allow the stone to disimpact or for the acute complication to resolve . |
| 23 | This was to segment the budget into a EAGGF ( Guarantee Section ) part and other areas of expenditure . |
| 24 | On top of this was scrawled the man 's name ‘ John Irvine ’ and a list of victuals and wine bought from his own pocket at a tavern called the Sea Barque near the Town Wall in Leicester . |
| 25 | Cheapness , comfort , and convenience seemed to be the most obvious explanations of the mass response but this was to ignore the films themselves . |
| 26 | The consequence of this was to intensify the party 's contempt for parliamentary democracy and spur it towards overt Fascism . |
| 27 | It may have been an attempt to clear the wood of all the trees , but before this was achieved the attempt was abandoned . |
| 28 | This was to ease the burden of the local inhabitants who before this had to rely on getting their water supply from wells , pumps and catchment tanks . |
| 29 | Elinor 's answer to this was to slam the study door . |
| 30 | This was to promote the cause of anti-Tory tactical voting , and to bring it home to Paddy Ashdown and Neil Kinnock that they needed each other . |