Example sentences of "this [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think , I think I would , having moved the recommendation would seek to clarify what we 're asking the Government to reconsider , erm , because we 're not saying what they should come up with as a new policy , but I think we could add the words , for capital investment , at the end of the motion , recognising that at one level of government , central government it has been the practice in the past , er when they had some capital they could sell in the form of British Telecom shares and er , indeed other nationalised industries , er not to use the er the results erm , er release this realised by that capital disposal for capital investment , instead to use it for revenue purposes , which was in the long term somewhat unfortunate . |
| 2 | If she 'd meant to lie , she 'd have planned the lies ; as it was , it was more like someone else speaking , someone for whom all the tales might be true : the tales of the amorous husband who would not be denied , or even delayed ; of her horrified discovery that her tried and trusted dutch cap had let her down after all these years , of her disappointment that she would not now be able to train as a doctor or run a campaign for more zebra crossings or offer a home to her poor ailing mother ; and then of course there were the medical difficulties , what with her diabetes and the early mongol child that died and all those Caesarians ; and the home where there was n't an inch of space and how the baby would mean eviction and bankruptcy ; and the fear that the baby might be too obviously of mixed-race ; and the over-riding , gut-rending terror that the baby might have royal blood ( of course if ever this got outside these walls there would be no answering for the political consequences for the western world ) and in the circumstances it seemed kind that the child should never be born . |
| 3 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 4 | This amounted to little more than a regrading of established Yorkist bureaucrats , and the same can be said of the exchequer , where the office of treasurer , left empty by the death of the earl of Essex , was filled by the earl 's former deputy John Wood . |
| 5 | Although this amounted to little more than a restatement of previously-agreed policies , including the Clean Air Act of 1990 [ see ED no 41/42 ] and the planned phase-out of chlorofluorocarbons , it did for the first time set a tentative target , suggesting that emissions of greenhouse gases in the year 2000 would be " equal to 1987 levels " . |
| 6 | This amounted to some 100 suicides per 100,000 Greenlanders , or nearly 17 times the rate in 1960 . |
| 7 | This led into another thoroughfare , the far side of which was bordered by a high brick wall in which two iron gates were let , seemingly at the top of Spring Street , and giving entrance to a drive leading to a substantial red-brick house . |
| 8 | Moreover there was no infallible way of telling how long ago the hardener had hen put in ; With the usual frailty of human nature this led to all sorts of mistakes . |
| 9 | During the war of 1914–18 he served in the food production department of the Board of Agriculture , where he developed sex-linked plumage variants as a means of sexing chicks ; this led to many of the commercial ‘ self-sexing ’ breeds . |
| 10 | Needless to say this led to several incidents because the cattle came direct from farms and were not accustomed to being in pens or being handled by the general public . |
| 11 | First it was kings and archbishops with some offstage divine tinkering , then it was the march of ideas and the movements of masses , then little local events which mean something bigger , but all the time it 's connections , progress , meaning , this led to this , this happened because of this . |
| 12 | This led to another form of coaching , I just can not remember how my interest in tennis arose , save that I used to practice for hours against an airman 's table top fixed to the netting of an old tennis court . |
| 13 | At the same time a fairly substantial Luftwaffe attack was launched against Malta by the units briefly based in Sicily , and this led to some severe fighting over the island on 6 May . |
| 14 | ( This led to some very difficult unscrambling more recently when the Commission was dissolved . ) |
| 15 | This led to some discussion on the Earl 's attitudes and behaviour . |
| 16 | This led to some people identifying the disease solely with these people and the idea of ‘ risk groups ’ for HIV and AIDS developed . |
| 17 | During the 1970s , knowledge of stratospheric chemistry improved considerably and this led to some radical rethinking of the effect of oxides of nitrogen on the ozone layer , as illustrated by the World Health Organization statements concerning the potential effect of aircraft emissions . |
| 18 | This made for some tight weightless riding . |
| 19 | This applied to many houses in the street , presumably brought about by the making up of the road with gravel over a long period . |
| 20 | This applied in all regions except two , but still reflected higher rates of loss in the North than the South . |
| 21 | His attempts to rectify this met with little encouragement . |
| 22 | This met with some opposition , for there were those who regarded music with suspicion because of its ‘ human ’ origins and its consequent unworthiness for the offering of pure worship , Nevertheless , hymns grew in favour in succeeding years and especially in the first part of the eighteenth century . |
| 23 | How much of a threat this posed to those drapers who themselves furnished funerals is not recorded , but as none appear to have taken legal action , it can only be assumed that they too had dealings with these manufacturers whilst continuing to offer a funeral service to the general public . |
| 24 | This occurred on several Riglos routes , where text and topo also differed as to the number of pitches ( Routes 2 , 9 and 14 are good examples ) . |
| 25 | However , if this occurred at all it is unlikely to have lasted long . |
| 26 | This occurred in those cases of sex murder where the supposed infidelity of the woman was the excuse the man used to justify killing his former wife or lover . |
| 27 | This seemed to many privatization run mad . |
| 28 | NATO strategists talked of the need for a ‘ flexible response ’ and of the possibility of a ‘ limited ’ nuclear war ; translated into the ordinary language of British voters , this seemed to many to amount to a willingness to contemplate nuclear war restricted to European soil . |
| 29 | Hell , this seemed like such a good idea this morning . |
| 30 | All this came as such a shock . |