Example sentences of "this was [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was but a temporary setback , for after a rest and a defeat on his return he proceeded to win his next nine races , completely outclassing his rivals at distances from nine furlongs to two and a quarter miles . |
| 2 | This was but a resumé of the botanical part of a much more detailed work to follow in due course . |
| 3 | In some ways this was but a different form of much older attitudes towards ‘ trade ’ . |
| 4 | He did explain what this was but I did n't catch all he said and I wonder if you could give me a little more detail ? |
| 5 | And this was but the first tray … . |
| 6 | This was but one of Cora-Beth 's surprises . |
| 7 | And this was but they put a D in it |
| 8 | This was while you were still at school ? |
| 9 | This was while we were still at scho Well , you used to have a week off of school , my darling , for tater-picking , only . |
| 10 | This was while you were working at was it ? |
| 11 | This was whether they should present themselves to the voters as a continuation of the Thatcher governments ; or claim that the election of John Major represented such a fundamental break with what had gone before that there was no need for voters to respond to the classical call of opposition on such occasions : ‘ Time for a change . ’ |
| 12 | This was after the interest bill surged to £11.5m from £3.8m , negating operating profits . |
| 13 | This was after David had split up with Hermione and was nursing a broken heart . |
| 14 | Of course the two regimes , of legacy and trust , were assimilated to each other in certain relatively minor respects ; but Gaius was still able in the mid-second century to state that there were many differences between legacies and trusts ( multum autem differunt ) , and this was after the rules on capacity had finally been brought into line by Hadrian . |
| 15 | Anyway , a few of us had a drink in the hotel that night , and apparently there was a fight ; this was after I got drunk and got put to bed . |
| 16 | This was after you became pregnant you mean ? |
| 17 | And this was after they tried to victimize you ? |
| 18 | This was after the el-Aqse mosque had been burned by a deranged tourist . |
| 19 | Berkeley 's reason for thinking this was that he believed mental contents to be mental images , and there can not be a general image . |
| 20 | This was that women became subordinated economically because the men gained control of the means of production , and so ‘ while the husband became the bourgeois the wife represented the proletariat ’ [ p. 137 ] . |
| 21 | The result of all this was that the Escort languished in some unfamiliar positions in the top 10 sales chart . |
| 22 | The danger with this was that the longer it went on the more likely it became that both players and fans would get their priorities wrong , so that the feeling of ‘ we may as well concentrate on what we 're good at and not bother too much about Tests ’ would become steadily more predominant . |
| 23 | The chief reason for this was that people were living longer . |
| 24 | The irony of this was that Galbraith 's working title for the book was Why People Are Poor . |
| 25 | This was that although the District would be explicitly recognised as the Responsible Body for Chapter III courses throughout the rural areas scheme , if any class wished to have a Chapter III category course organised by the Cambridge Board the WEA would agree to the Board assuming providing powers for the purpose of meeting the wishes of the students in the class . |
| 26 | A complicating factor in all this was that despite the opposition of the Eastern District Council , expressed both before and after the decision had been taken , Cambridge University Extra-Mural Board resolved in December 1955 to withdraw its resident tutors from some of the counties it served . |
| 27 | The upshot of all this was that in 1959 the State of Tennessee ruled to revoke the charter of the Highlander Folk School . |
| 28 | One advantage of this was that the employer or manager was often a part-time farmer/crofter himself and was therefore more understanding of requests for days off or late arrivals in the morning . |
| 29 | One of the results of this was that he later sought to influence his son with the truths of Scripture . |
| 30 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |