Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally . |
| 32 | The signal to start this building was the Korean War which broke out in June 1950 . |
| 33 | This building was the first great Byzantine church in Russia and it set the pattern for innumerable smaller churches . |
| 34 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 35 | This provision was the product of long debate , focussing on its obligatory character ( ’ in all cases ’ ) and on the meaning of ‘ civil and commercial ’ . |
| 36 | Det Con Gary Wilson , of North Ormesby CID , said : ‘ This money was the man 's life savings . |
| 37 | For one colleague in that Department , this experience was the initial point of contact with the study of language in relation to the educational process , and it led him to undertake an Open University degree including as many options in that area as were available . |
| 38 | The only exception to this experience was the 25 per cent fall in EC migrant employees in West Germany , from 732,000 to 520,000 ( Table 6.1 ) . |
| 39 | The reason for all the excitement over this newsheet was the information it contained ‘ The Allied armies are advancing on all Fronts ’ . |
| 40 | A further example of this caginess was the list of companies that refused to be interviewed for a Today Tonight programmed on gold mining in March 1990 : Riofinex , Glencar , Feltrim 's Conor Haughey and Navan Resources all refused to be interviewed for the programme , leaving the defence of the mining industry in the hands of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , Ennex International and a speaker from Tara Mines , rather than Tara Prospecting . |
| 41 | The growth of this industry was the most fundamental change in the country 's economy in the later Middle Ages ; where England had previously relied for its exports largely on the export of raw wool for the more advanced industrial economies of the Low Countries and Italy , it became in this period a manufacturing nation in its own right , and cloth replaced wool as its main resource in international trade . |
| 42 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 43 | The culmination of this study was the publication of a number of manuscripts , among which was ‘ The Invading Socialist Society ’ , published in 1947 , and ‘ Notes on Dialectics ’ , published in 1948 . |
| 44 | The procedure in this study was the same as that employed in Study 2 with the exception of the judgment phase , here two new verbal rating tasks were performed in place of the risk rating and accident estimate tasks : |
| 45 | One of the key elements of this study was the exercise of tight control over variables which may influence faecal bile acid profiles ; age , transit time , gall stones , cholecystectomy , hepatic function , hepatic metastases , previous surgery , and antibiotics . |
| 46 | The aim of this study was the separate measurement of reflux of food and acid into the oesophagus in 37 healthy , ambulant subjects . |
| 47 | An unexpected finding of this study was the high incidence of recurrent variceal haemorrhage ( 31% ) among those patients undergoing oesophageal transection and gastric devascularisation . |
| 48 | Although some of this effect was the build up of turf over the years , no doubt this type of architecture was made necessary by the wild weather experienced on the island . |
| 49 | The logical result of this attitude was , of course , the takeover of the most prominent media , which would involve placing them under more direct control , a corollary of this action was the suppression or limitation of any privately owned media that might either be critical of TANU and the Tanzanian Government or campaign for alternatives . |
| 50 | This demonstration was the first independent action on the part of a teachers ' association ; previously , they had been government controlled . |
| 51 | Among the six members of the sub-committee responsible for drafting this submission was the Eastern District 's former full-time tutor Harold Shearman , by then Academic Adviser to the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at London and a WEA vice-president . |
| 52 | The AX 's reputation for economy is enough to convince her that this car was the right choice . |
| 53 | This car was the last to be constructed without a sponsor , although it has since been sponsored by several firms . |
| 54 | The result of this research was the establishment by the Tavistock Institute of socio-technical systems theory . |
| 55 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |
| 56 | Previously they had the conviction and the confidence but this tape was the final proof , the confirmation of the possibilities . |
| 57 | One aspect of this fear was the way in which the new notion of female impurity rapidly made inroads into the popular imagination , with the result that women came to be seen as a constant stumbling block to man 's improvement , a blight on the possibility of his attaining the now required ( i.e. post-exilic ) standard of personal purity . |
| 58 | One of the long term trends identified in the introduction to this chapter was the decline of the privately rented sector . |
| 59 | Although in theory under the personal command of the new Regent , in fact Will Douglas led , grumbling at having to carry so many lofty ones along when what was needed for this attempt was the toughest of mosstroopers . |
| 60 | The only evidence offered by the Israeli authorities to support this allegation was the accusation made by a Palestinian caught in possession of 150 PFLP leaflets . |