Example sentences of "[noun] this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the top line seat 's already snapped up , that is apart from the Didcot-based Williams driver line-up , the speculation surrounding the Pit Lane at Esteril this weekend was the pending signature of Nigel Mansell to the Oxfordshire team . |
| 2 | Unemployment in the Darlington travel to work area in January this year was the highest for ten years at 5,229 or 10.5 per cent . |
| 3 | The theme this year was the conflict between development for tourism and the conservation of cherished landscapes . |
| 4 | The best-selling book that will end up in 400,000 Christmas stockings this week was the brainchild of Guinness chief executive Sir Hugh Beaver and first published in 1955 , a time when the brewery owned 84,382 pubs in Britain . |
| 5 | The drill this year was the same as before , with a fleet of buses bringing the partygoers from pick-up points all across Lancashire to the Springfields restaurant . |
| 6 | Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost . |
| 7 | Hot seller in seaside toyshops this summer was the UFO Solar , a ‘ solar energy airship ’ balloon intended to be flown kite-like on a sixty-foot line . |
| 8 | Another new feature this year was the more detailed application form telling prospective entrants exactly what the judges look for and highlighting errors and omissions encountered last year . |
| 9 | A good feature this year was the gallery of pictures on view in the Undercroft . |
| 10 | In the writer 's view this convention was the preposterous off-spring of a distorting egocentric illusion to which the children of a Western Civilisation had succumbed like the children of all other known civilisations and known primitive societies . |