Example sentences of "of this [noun sg] was [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The objective of this pilot was to explore the possibility of setting up Anglo-French comparative studies on the involvement of the users of public services in their planning and delivery . |
| 2 | One of the aims of this seminar was to train the future trainers , and AR-WACC intentionally combined this concern of theirs with the Frankfurt Book Fair . |
| 3 | One of the purposes of this day was to examine the north |
| 4 | However , the main purpose of this publication was to protect the nurserymen , to establish recognition through text and illustration of many new plants on sale in this country . |
| 5 | The aim of much of this legislation was to increase the sheer quantity of housing available to the rural population , thereby relieving overcrowding and improving the state of repair of the housing stock . |
| 6 | The first phase of this work was to index the holdings of all the records in the archive . |
| 7 | One of the objectives of this work was to trace the south-westward extension of the Highland Boundary Fault . |
| 8 | The wider impact of this decision was to define the scope of judicial review not in terms of the source of the power being exercised but rather by reference to the functions of judicial review and its appropriateness in particular cases . |
| 9 | Resistance of this kind was to keep the authorities extremely nervous throughout 1922 , and one has the sense from the enormous detail of the Smolensk Archive that fear of outright revolt and even counter-revolution was ever present in the local Party 's thoughts . |
| 10 | He submits that the true purpose of this Act was to meet the mischief of hacking as he defines it . |
| 11 | Initially , the main aim of this research was to demonstrate the inaccuracy of Chomsky 's characterization of the input as " random and degenerate " but , more recently , attempts have been made to show that particular features of this register actually facilitate the learner 's task . |
| 12 | The major aim of this exhibition was to provide the ammunition to persuade the Government that historic building grants must be introduced for historic churches . |
| 13 | The purpose and the consequence of this policy was to dampen the expectations of workers , weaken the power of organized labour and restore competition to the labour market . |
| 14 | The point of this device was to spring the metal balls to stomach height only , so that they would tear through any human bodies within thirty feet . |
| 15 | The aim of this observation was to study the changes , if any , in the role and content of girls comic papers over a period of ten years . |
| 16 | The objective of this association was to promote the adoption of the instruction of deaf children not through the use of sign language or any method that used it as then prevailed in many countries including the U.S.A. and Britain , but through oral methods to the total exclusion of sign language altogether . |
| 17 | The point of this experiment was to strengthen the alloxan data . |
| 18 | Another objective of this investigation was to determine the extent to which collocations taken from one domain could aid the recognition of text taken from another . |
| 19 | The aim of this project was to investigate the significance of gender as a factor in processes of gentrification , and to explore the interplay between changing gender divisions and urban change . |
| 20 | The intention of this project was to review the existing literature and to make a series of pre-pilot studies in order to provide the material for a conspectus of the subject . |
| 21 | The aim of this programme was to mitigate the effects of the trade blockade with India [ see also below ] which had resulted in energy shortages , increased import costs and a slowdown in revenue collection . |
| 22 | A primary purpose of this study was to explore the distribution of risk-related information at both high and low risk junctions . |
| 23 | The purpose of this study was to examine the hypothesis that such a difference in metastability already exists in hepatic bile . |
| 24 | The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of TGF α on the growth of hamster ductal exocrine pancreatic cancer cells in vivo . |
| 25 | The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of metronidazole on NSAID enteropathy in man . |
| 26 | The aim of this study was to examine the pattern of acquisition of H pylori infection over a 21 year period in a group of 141 adults who had blood samples and serum stored in 1969 , 1978 , and 1990 . |
| 27 | The aim of this study was to compare the uptake of 5-ASA with that of Ac-ASA into the isolated human colonic epithelial cell . |
| 28 | The aim of this study was to assess the effect of oral supplementation with vitamin C , vitamin E , or Β -carotene on colonic crypt cell proliferation of patients with adenomatous polyps . |
| 29 | The purpose of this study was to evaluate the longterm clinical and endoscopical effects of Nissen fundoplication performed for reflux , including assessment of oesophageal function . |
| 30 | The aim of this study was to identify the duodenal histological abnormalities in the presence or absence of HSAID , H pylori , and duodenal ulceration . |