Example sentences of "[verb] this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only evidence offered by the Israeli authorities to support this allegation was the accusation made by a Palestinian caught in possession of 150 PFLP leaflets . |
| 2 | What complicated this debate was the question of whether there were enough houses of the right kind in the right places . |
| 3 | Except from a brief outburst from Sonny ( when Pat urges him to face reality , he protests , ‘ Reality is not life ! ’ ) , you would never know this play was the work of a poet rather than a TV comedy writer . |
| 4 | What changed this situation was the defeat of the poles in July , and the Red Army 's counter-thrust into Poland . |
| 5 | While both ideas turned out to be partially correct , the essential step in overcoming this difficulty was the application of an extra magnetic field — the so-called toroidal field — with lines of force parallel to the current flow round the torus . |
| 6 | The first person clearly to express this idea was the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz , who wrote in 1866 that to see things is to form ‘ unconscious conclusions from analogy ’ : by an analogy he meant a pre-existing theory , or model , of what the world is like . |
| 7 | A major factor in securing this pledge was the supply of advanced anti-missile technology in the form of the Patriot missile battery , with US support crews ( an unprecedented deployment of US army personnel on Israeli soil ) to enable the Patriots to be brought immediately into service ( whereas Israel 's own two Patriot batteries purchased from the USA the previous year were not yet operational as crews were still being trained ) . |
| 8 | Surrounding this court was the court of the men of Israel , reserved for non-priestly Jewish males . |
| 9 | Wycliffe spoke to the scenes-of-crime officer : ‘ When you arrived this morning was the yard door bolted ? ’ |
| 10 | What surprised this observer was the extent to which Dickson — admittedly an aloof and irascible young man — has become unpopular with the New Zealand yachting community . |
| 11 | Many commentators wrote in similar fashion — saying this service was the epitome of what the BBC should be doing . |
| 12 | Er I merely want to comment on the erm apparent misunderstanding on my comments on windfalls earlier on , erm it has been suggested that we we 're tightening down on windfalls , was the quote actually used , erm , there is no intention in the local plan to er ignore the er windfalls , to actually deal with them in a different way than had happened in the past , clearly if sites come forward which are windfalls which are suitable in environmental terms then the City Council will give , as P B G one requires , the appropriate consideration to those applications , what I was merely saying this morning was the the likelihood of such windfalls coming forward , and the scale was clearly going to be substantially less than had occurred in the past , and the the figure of eighty a eighty a year , which was for a five year period , which was quoted to me , erm clearly would not be representative of my expectation of the future . |
| 13 | The signal to start this building was the Korean War which broke out in June 1950 . |
| 14 | Capping this cone was the cowl . |
| 15 | While the aims of T.E.C.A. appear modest enough , by forging an alliance with Dr.Eric Williams they would come to realise that there was a much greater goal to aim for , and that the key to attaining this goal was the charismatic figure of Dr. Williams himself . |
| 16 | The most memorable thing about the complex power struggle that had this result was the fate of the losers . |
| 17 | Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface . |
| 18 | And the capacity of institutions to achieve this end was the criterion of their moral development and progress . |
| 19 | We might infer simply that Nietzsche supposed this aspect was the most likely to interest the general public . |
| 20 | Among the six members of the sub-committee responsible for drafting this submission was the Eastern District 's former full-time tutor Harold Shearman , by then Academic Adviser to the Department of Extra-Mural Studies at London and a WEA vice-president . |