Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the most critical moment of the Seven Years War it amounted to 4.4 per cent of the total population of the country , the highest proportion of this kind reached in any State during the century . |
| 2 | Scholars in this field had for some time been engaged in a debate over the importance of acquired and inherited personality traits in behaviour . |
| 3 | The experimental service in this study consisted of task-centred casework ( Reid and Epstein 1972 ) provided by social workers . |
| 4 | Initially called ‘ L Detachment SAS Brigade ’ , this force consisted of seven officers and sixty other ranks . |
| 5 | Some of the houses in this neighbourhood belonged to industrial barons , and even a few of the aristocrats played a leading part as entrepreneurs . |
| 6 | The impetus for this research came from two sources . |
| 7 | This chapter grew to eleven volumes totalling 4,212 pages . |
| 8 | This reasoning came from early reading of a Ladybird book on Lautrec , van Gogh and Gauguin . |
| 9 | This reasoning came from early reading of a Ladybird book on Lautrec , van Gogh and Gauguin . |
| 10 | This oversight resulted in this cartoon appearing on mill noticeboards . |
| 11 | They were charged that they did contrive , design and plot to murder MOIR NcILCHENICH widow of Ellister for mere avarice and covetousness to attain to her money which they supposed she had lying by her in her house and in pursuance of this plot did upon some day of April 1698 in dead time of night murder her by strangling her with her own belt and thereafter threw her body over a rock into the sea so that the deed was not discovered for some time . |
| 12 | This work went through three editions , each time augmented , the last being in the mid nineteenth century . |
| 13 | According to the Justinian Digest , ocean carriers , among others , were distrusted by their clients , and this distrust resulted in strict liability for delivery . |
| 14 | This correspondence continued for some years until 1878 when they moved to late in June . |
| 15 | Members will be aware that ex-Councillors and were unsuccessful at the polls and I wish to ask the Council to place on record its thanks to their contribution to the work of this Council made by those members and to wish them well in the future . |
| 16 | Many women in this diocese participated in this consultation . |
| 17 | After the 1992 election , this process continued with Labour overtaking the Liberal Democrats in a rush to the right . |
| 18 | The head who described this process pointed to two matters of importance : " I wanted a systematic curriculum with the sharing of opportunities fully understood by parents and staff , and with the pastoral organization of the school running smoothly alongside the curriculum scheme . " |
| 19 | Intervention of this sort occurred in most areas where European powers showed interest . |
| 20 | This body consisted of five members of the NPFL , plus representatives of the 13 counties and six political parties . |
| 21 | And some of the worst excesses during this period came from Third World governments , such as Sanjay Ghandi 's notorious sterilisation campaign in India in 1976 . |
| 22 | This shift occurred for several reasons . |
| 23 | This infant died at 34 days . |
| 24 | A very simple ( and true ) illustration of this point arose in one accident where a BOAC pilot died flying his own privately owned small aeroplane only the day after he had landed his Boeing 707 full of passengers at Heathrow . |
| 25 | This relationship persisted after other factors ( residence , maternal education , marital status and father 's occupation ) were taken into account . |
| 26 | This debasement resulted from imperial extravagance and the catastrophic loss of Asia Minor . |
| 27 | This conflict led to industrial unrest in the winter of 1978 — 9 , the breakdown of the Government 's pay policy and the Conservative election victory in 1979 . |
| 28 | The broadest classification of this development fell into three categories of village — estate , textile and fishing . |
| 29 | This procedure resulted in considerable damage to the sphincter and was replaced by a technique of abdominal mucosectomy and sutured ileoanastomosis for the next 58 operations . |
| 30 | This request led to agonized debate within the Israeli Foreign Ministry . |