Example sentences of "this was the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the patient who was studied 29 months after his most recent acute attack . |
| 2 | The signatory of the letter in the case of the miners was Mr Roy Lynk , President of the Union of Democratic Mineworkers but in the case of the general population this was the patient 's general practitioner . |
| 3 | However this was the swan-song of the conduit system , for the decision was taken to convert to the overhead line system used today . |
| 4 | This was the occasion for further expressions of friendship on the part of the two sovereigns , for Queen Victoria had taken a personal interest in the Empress 's accouchement and had sent Lady Ely , one of her ladies-in-waiting , to be present at the birth . |
| 5 | I have heard of cases where sudden terror and stress has caused involuntary evacuation of the bowels and I know without question that this was the occasion when I came nearest to suffering that unhappy fate . |
| 6 | This was the bond which gave him a warm and interested reception . |
| 7 | This was the film that tempted Dirk Bogarde back to the cinema after a 13-year absence . |
| 8 | It was fortunate for Silverstein that Marvin , knowing this was the film that would — and indeed did — make him a superstar , behaved impeccably throughout . |
| 9 | This was the skinhead outercoat ( along with the sheepskins ) & not the Crombie . |
| 10 | This was the scene at Crowden in July 1987 with class 74 's 47146 and 47200 in attendance . |
| 11 | This was the scene at Pilsley in 1967 as a class 25 faces south with the demolition train . |
| 12 | I mean this was the scene we were all at , to use the then terminology . |
| 13 | This was the scene when a new Governor arrived in August . |
| 14 | This was the scene — musicians and dance floor posers drawn from the same pool , sex as a slippery transaction — that produced Marc Almond and Soft Cell in Leeds , Boy George , and the early , sleazy Duran Duran in Birmingham . |
| 15 | This was the scene at Astley 's Hi-Fi shop 4 years ago , when ram raiders struck . |
| 16 | This is how the gardens to the east of the palace looked before the present duke 's grandfather created the Italian gardens , and at the opposite end of the palace — this was the scene before today 's water terraces were built . |
| 17 | This was the scene on the A 420 last June … helping win the road its reputation as one long series of blackspots . |
| 18 | This was the scene when they arrived … |
| 19 | This was the stuff of life . |
| 20 | This was the play which showed how Annie Sullivan taught Helen stricken deaf and blind when she was 19 months old , — the meaning of words , a finger tip alphabet , and to write . |
| 21 | The illusion that she was a spectator , and this was the play , was making her lose touch with reality ; and making her forget the enormity of her present predicament . |
| 22 | This was the contention of Elizabeth Bruss 's perverse but deeply interesting book , Beautiful Theories . |
| 23 | This was the contention that the court ought not to entertain the action ‘ because to do so would be detrimental to national security ’ , the defence referring to the long-established practice of Secretaries of State not to disclose or discuss the existence of a warrant . |
| 24 | One of the means used to enforce this was the imposition of an oath ( shen ) by which the shamanist natives invoked the wrath of the spirits upon themselves if they broke their undertaking to the Russians . |
| 25 | This was the home of Count Caspar Sternberg , friend of Goethe and one of the promoters of the National Museum . |
| 26 | This was the home of the celebrated opera singer Destinová who held her salon here . |
| 27 | There was a muddy pond at the bottom of Lavender 's garden and this was the home of a colony of newts . |
| 28 | This was the home of a very large ferret with long , dangerous teeth and claws . |
| 29 | This was the home of Henry Jekyll 's favourite friend — the man who would inherit Jekyll 's quarter of a million pounds . |
| 30 | But this was the country , this was horticulture , and they ordered things differently there . |