Example sentences of "this [be] [conj] [pron] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now eighteen months ago we had three hundred and , it was April , the report in April nineteen ninety two there were three hundred and sixty five I think it was places that were vacant in our homes and this is before we started the refurbishment . |
| 2 | This is because it raised the real sterling exchange rate , rendering ‘ marginal ’ manufacturing exports uncompetitive . |
| 3 | The reason for this was that he followed the methods of the scholastics ( medieval theologians ) whom he admired very much . |
| 4 | The justification for this was that it saved the skyline of the Granite City . |
| 5 | In both cases this was because they exceeded the 5 per cent minimum threshold in terms of votes won in what was formerly East Germany , albeit not in Germany as a whole . |
| 6 | Possibly this was because he distrusted the enthusiasm , sometimes pushed to excessive lengths , which some agnostics felt for the church ( for example their defence of Cranmer 's Prayer Book ) , and Hardy 's enthusiasm amounted almost to love . |