Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to a survey conducted for the BBC in April 1974 by Professor Richard Rose , sixty-nine per cent of the people of Northern Ireland thought that the executive should be given a chance to govern but this finding was contradicted by the results of a general election two months earlier and may reflect the general tendency of survey respondents to make statements in response to poll questions which are more moderate than their real views . |
| 2 | This finding was incompatible with a simple thermonuclear origin . |
| 3 | Indeed , 167 ( 44 per cent ) legs were oedematous and pain was experienced in 121 ( 72 per cent ) of these : this finding was statistically significant ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 4 | This finding was fully supported by the evidence of Dr. G. , a consultant psychiatrist specialising in anorexia nervosa , who examined W. on the instructions of the Official Solicitor at a time when he was acting as W. 's guardian ad litem . |
| 5 | This finding was not supported by Walter 's study , in which she estimated the effects of increases in national primary and secondary education during 1950–60 on economic growth during 1960–70 . |
| 6 | This finding was supported by a recent American study , although in neither study were patients randomised . |
| 7 | This finding was relatable to Stage I regulations which attempted to encourage students to broaden their educational horizons by requiring them to take 12 modules , but to pass only 10 . |
| 8 | It was conceded by the court that this finding was on a strict view irrelevant , since there was a break between the clearing of the premises and the assault with which the appellant had been charged , which was a separate incident . |
| 9 | This finding was confirmed using lifetable analysis , with a 35% reduction ( 95% confidence intervals 10–59% , p<0.05 ) in the proportion of ulcer relapses in patients who had received cisapride compared with those treated with placebo . |
| 10 | This finding was confirmed by Burton et al and Amman et al . |
| 11 | This finding was considered as an ‘ uncomplicated ’ Barrett 's oesophagus. ( e ) Grade IV : presence of a peptic ulcer or stricture of the oesophagus , located at the level or distal to the mucosal junction , always in the presence of a Barrett 's oesophagus . |
| 12 | Hatt and Hanson found that preincubation with TPA inhibited the stimulation by histamine of the cyclic AMP content of rat perietal cells , but this finding was not replicated by Ostrowski and Bomsztyk . |
| 13 | When the lives of the women were examined in more detail , this finding was explained ; quite often , support at the time of their first contact with the woman was not translated into effective support in a crisis in the follow-up year . |
| 14 | However , strictly this finding was obiter , since it was held that the sale was a consumer sale and the clause was therefore ineffective . |
| 15 | In the event , only £575,000 of this grant was taken up . |
| 16 | Efforts were made to persuade Jamaica to follow Barbados , and a twenty-one year grant to cover the island 's own expenses was voted in 1683 , but this grant was not large enough to provide any surplus to spend elsewhere and was not much more than a recognition that the government in England was not going to spend its money covering the costs of local government for Englishmen who had gone overseas . |
| 17 | This grant was unprecedented in extent ; it represented a significant political victory for Edward , and suggests that at this stage there was a considerable degree of support for the war amongst the knights . |
| 18 | This grant was to be Edward 's final contribution to his brother 's northern empire . |
| 19 | Of the subsidiary grants , Gloucester lost all but the de la Laund estates , although this grant was widened to include the reversion of the land held by the knight 's widow Katherine Tempest . |
| 20 | In November 1294 a tenth was demanded of them in the shires , a sixth in the boroughs ; in December 1295 an eleventh and a seventh were sought ; a year later , in December 1296 , a twelfth and an eighth ; in July 1297 an eighth and a fifth , although this grant was not in fact raised . |
| 21 | This grant was in support of the conference . |
| 22 | This grant was used to support a conference and other media through which general and specific aspects of European integration , convergence and divergence in work and employment systems would be more widely known , and seen as relevant for future research , by British social scientists . |
| 23 | This grant was to be Edward 's final contribution to his brother 's northern empire . |
| 24 | Of the subsidiary grants , Gloucester lost all but the de la Laund estates , although this grant was widened to include the reversion of the land held by the knight 's widow Katherine Tempest . |
| 25 | The usefulness of this framework was limited , however , as the dates of occupation were known for very few sites ; and furthermore , the time interval between sites and finds was also unknown . |
| 26 | Second , I shall consider how this framework was used by the subject working parties whose job it was to produce the detailed lists of statements of attainment . |
| 27 | The impetus for the development of this framework was the realization that a common point in discussions with managers of innovative activities was the issue of uncertainty . |
| 28 | Some of the material for this framework was developed from work done on an earlier pupil-created datafile project . |
| 29 | This advantage was , however , more than offset by the fact that those senior Allied officers and statesmen who had advocated the invasion of Turkey , in order to step up the pressure on the Central Powers in the Middle East and so save lives in the war of attrition in France , had lost the argument . |
| 30 | Because this advantage was not understood , the devaluation was made too late and was not effectively exploited . |