Example sentences of "this was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the beginning of ACET . |
| 2 | This was the plea of a young Eritrean boy as he was being dragged back to the plane that had just brought him to the UK , when in September 1990 , he and his sister were denied access to the asylum procedure . |
| 3 | I think myself that this was the case , and that it scarcely makes him very different from many other hard-working people . |
| 4 | But if this was the ideal placed before the clergy and members of religious orders , the reality for the people was generally somewhat different . |
| 5 | This was the line already adopted by Binchy ( 1984 ) who interpreted world-wide statistics in this direction . |
| 6 | Even then , this was the sector of vocational or technical schools , which were the schools of the politically and economically less influential classes . |
| 7 | By 1946 , Ghatak had become a Marxist activist , this was the year that the communal rioting leading up to Partition began in earnest . |
| 8 | This was the pilot for the Harry O detective series . |
| 9 | Since most of these control movements are semi-automatic and largely preprogrammed , it is almost certain that this was the initial cause of his reaching such a high speed . |
| 10 | She had decided this was the theme , exactly what Lucy needed , locked in work and the vagaries of her maverick genius boy-child . |
| 11 | Surely this was the news they had most wanted to hear . |
| 12 | ‘ It will never end until we feel our powers , until we see how few and weak they are ’ ( this was the merest wishfulness ) , ‘ and how strong they are , for consider what they have now , and in what sort of a country we are living . |
| 13 | This was the real thing ! |
| 14 | This was the year in which Leonard was elected president of McGill 's Debating Society . |
| 15 | She accepted this was the kind of thing children wrote on the pavement nowadays . |
| 16 | This was the kind of dilemma which the American philosopher Jerry Fodor faced up to in his important book The Language of Thought . |
| 17 | Perhaps because this was the first time I was all alone in a big city in a new country . |
| 18 | Little did they know this was the fellow for whom The Flippity Flop Young Man was written , and I was n't about to tell them . |
| 19 | This was the only medium that showed up well enough against the various colours and patterns of the spalted timber . |
| 20 | This was the first time the phrase Scenic Land Cruise had been used by a train operator — but it certainly was not the last . |
| 21 | This was the clue upon which Ashton based his fourth classical ballet , Monotones I and II . |
| 22 | While this was the parking area recommended in the new Yorkshire Gritstone guidebook , the BMC are now asking climbers to ignore it , park in the village and walk the extra quarter of a mile . |
| 23 | Because that 's the description Thomas Johnson gave of the place when he came here in 1639 , and this was the self-same weather he experienced , and here 's the point . |
| 24 | It was well named : this was the edge of the Great Rift Valley , a gigantic dyke which cuts across the entire continent of Africa from the Red Sea to Mozambique , and from our vantage point the ground fell away , almost sheer , to the flat valley floor , some 2,000 feet below . |
| 25 | This was the first Berghaus sack to incorporate ‘ exploding sidepockets . ’ |
| 26 | This was the case with Marjorie , who 'd just accepted voluntary retirement after 20 years in her office . |
| 27 | This was the assessment of RDS by Johnny Beerling , controller of BBC Radio 1 and chairman of the EBU Programme Experts Group in an introduction to a special issue of the EBU Review — Technical devoted to radio data system ( RDS ) . |
| 28 | This was the position argued some years ago by practitioners of la nouvelle critique , who believed that clarity in argument was a form of ideological mystification , reinforcing the status quo . |
| 29 | This was the contention of Elizabeth Bruss 's perverse but deeply interesting book , Beautiful Theories . |
| 30 | For example , this was the summer of the famous Blast dinner for the Vorticists , in which Wyndham Lewis was of course much involved . |