Example sentences of "this was [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | This was during the mid 1980 's and the group was of moderate size and the productions were of a moderate standard also . |
| 32 | This was during the the dinner hour . |
| 33 | This was during the mid thirties ? |
| 34 | But this was outside the police remit , and meanwhile , they had to be careful not to jeopardise public tranquillity . |
| 35 | This was outside the framework of the Community institutions established by the Rome Treaty , but it was hoped that it could bring about a common European attitude to international problems . |
| 36 | This was towards the end of June 1973 . |
| 37 | This was towards the end of the filming , by which time most of the chimps recognised Mike , and allowed him to approach them . |
| 38 | This was through the Sunday School ? |
| 39 | Yes so this was through the |
| 40 | He makes explicit what is perhaps implicit in Taskopruzade , namely that Molla Yegan was from the province of Aydin , and adds to the sentence about his becoming muderris at certain medreses in Bursa the fact that this was through the agency of Molla Fenari . |
| 41 | This was despite the fact that the reform of Irish catholicism in the nineteenth century sprang mainly from urban areas . |
| 42 | This was despite the fact that she too is now branching into her own recording career . |
| 43 | This was despite the fact that one member of the Court of Appeal , Sir Denys Buckley , thought the reasons for the order to be ‘ meagre ’ . |
| 44 | This was despite the fact that I had already visited the Algerian Embassy to no effect after writing thirteen times . |
| 45 | This was despite the fact that probably the most influential piece of evidence they received during the three years they sat , the Church of England Moral Welfare Council 's ( CEMWC ) updated report , Sexual Offenders and Social Punishment , recommended a universal age of consent of 17 . |
| 46 | This was despite the fact that the media had reacted in support of the government and the Constitution during the days following the attempted coup . |
| 47 | This was despite the fact that Churchill , amazingly for a new and over-rewarded recruit to the Conservative Party who twelve years before had nearly broken up the Asquith Cabinet with his demand for a larger navy , began his Chancellorship by presenting an importunate demand to the Admiralty ministers ( who were Baldwin 's closest friends in the Government — Davidson was the junior minister ) for a slashing of the cruiser replacement programme . |
| 48 | This was despite the fact that many of the Councillors were also Governors . |
| 49 | This was despite the fact that one of the claimants , John Zápolya , who was crowned King of Hungary in 1514 , was of Slavonian origin and was known to the Magyars as the Slav King . |
| 50 | This was despite the fact that physics was the most boring subject at school because it was so easy and obvious . |
| 51 | This was despite the fact that two state prosecutors in the Jesuit murder case had resigned and that the FMLN had recently ended a five-week military offensive in accordance with a further US congressional stipulation for the maintenance of the military aid ban . |
| 52 | This was despite the fact that out patients had the expected increases in intra epithelial lymphocyte count , as well as increased expression of epithelial class II major histocompatibility complex antigens . |
| 53 | This was despite the fact that patients maintained on mesalazine were receiving twice the equivalent dose of 5-ASA as those maintained on sulphasalazine . |
| 54 | This was despite the inclusion above the line of the £15.9 million profit on the sale of a stake in First Leisure Corporation and a £13.3 million write-down of the investment in BSkyB . |
| 55 | This was despite the condition being known for more than 2,000 years , says a British Medical Journal report . |
| 56 | This was despite the fact he had confessed , was found with a knife and several dollars all stained in the victim 's blood . |
| 57 | He could now say that this was with the approval of his superiors . |
| 58 | This was with the engine running , so I assume that the wing drop was a result of the slip stream effect from the propeller . |
| 59 | There was one vital breakthrough for the nationalist consciousness , though there still remains some doubt as to how deep this was for the Fianna Fáil party : all the parties committed themselves to the recognition of the protestant — loyalist group as having legitimate aspirations and affirmed the need for the recognition of ‘ two sets of legitimate rights ’ coexisting in the island as a whole : ‘ Constitutional nationalists are determined to secure justice for all traditions … |
| 60 | This was for the specialised early potato market . |