Example sentences of "[conj] this [noun sg] [was/were] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this region was the nation 's first to identify the cause of smog and to make pioneering strides towards curbing air pollution , population growth keeps overwhelming its efforts . |
| 2 | Her contention that this event was a result of a twofold plot of the Duc d'Orléans and the Illuminati , organized from Germany , was heavily criticized by several reviewers . |
| 3 | Although it is not explicitly stated that this sea-monster was the father of eponymous founder of the Merovingian dynasty , that is clearly the impression which Fredegar intended to give . |
| 4 | One obvious was of demonstrating that this system was a specific historical product was to show that it was not always so , and Marx and Engels turned to history and anthropology to demonstrate this . |
| 5 | Hecht believes that this system was a source of conflict in domestic employment . |
| 6 | I was therefore surprised when I heard the hospital on the radio today saying that this case was a very isolated incident . ’ |
| 7 | Suragai had said that the race was called the Manchu and that this man was a good officer and an expert swordsman . |
| 8 | He knew darn well she , or rather Cara , was a journalist , Fabia thought crossly , all her vibes insisting that this man was the very same man she had come to interview . |
| 9 | There is no doubt that this map was a landmark in the improvement of the outline of Scotland , which was to last for twenty years . |
| 10 | After the flight of King James II on 11 December 1688 the legal fiction was adopted that this day was the last of his reign ( thus 4 James II is 6 February 1688 to 11 December 1688 ) , and there followed an interregnum until William III and Mary II were made king and queen for their joint and several lives on 13 February 1689 . |
| 11 | There is no doubt whatsoever that this expansionism was a deliberate and carefully controlled policy ; Charles did not fight defensive or reluctant wars . |
| 12 | Obviously took Teddy twenty minutes to think that this iceberg was a it was a , a valid symbol ! |
| 13 | However , scrutiny of the events leading up to the 9 July announcement suggests that this decision was a result not so much of Soviet ‘ opportunism ’ as of the policies of the Eisenhower administration and the brinkmanship of Fidel Castro . |
| 14 | It may well be that this building was the Quartermasters Stores originally . |
| 15 | He knew very well that this night was the one which would decide whether the old female eagle survived . |
| 16 | Newman 's detailed researches in hospital had come up with the fact that this company was a subsidiary of INCUBUS . |
| 17 | It might be that this girl was a con woman and he and Camb the first victims of a colossal deception . |
| 18 | I thought from the beginning that this conversation was a mistake . |
| 19 | Some years later , Muriel admits that this conversation was the making of her . |
| 20 | The tone of deference suggests that this person was a new acquaintance , and that Leapor respected her literary judgement . |
| 21 | As another pseudo-emblema of the later second century , therefore , it appears that this panel was the work of a mosaicist employed on the Lion and Stag and , perhaps , on the Cupids mosaic . |
| 22 | It was suggested that this criticism was a consequence of resentment at Suharto 's failure to follow the military 's advice in a number of areas , including the appointment of the Vice-President after the 1988 election [ see p. 36933 ] . |
| 23 | Superficially , I was coping , but I can see now that this period was a kind of moratorium . |
| 24 | ‘ I am familiar with the darker view which encompasses bestiality , incest , parricide , rustling , infanticide and the murderous rivalry within the Women 's Institute , but I had imagined that this view was the product of a warped approach to life and greatly exaggerated . ’ |
| 25 | It was true that this woman was the exact opposite . |
| 26 | How simply we believed that this wasteland was the immediate effect of social antagonism , community tension , civil war . |
| 27 | An announcement informed the vacant platform and Rachaela that this train was the London via somewhere , calling at something and elsewhere and who cared at all ? |
| 28 | In order to establish the defence , the defendant must prove that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable care for his own safety and that this failure was a cause of his damage . |
| 29 | The defendant must prove that the plaintiff failed to take reasonable care for his own safety and that this failure was a cause of his damage . |
| 30 | The Livre des Coutumes of Bordeaux contains a note that ‘ [ In 1259 ] king Henry did homage for Bordeaux , Bayonne and all the land of Gascony [ Gasconha ] which was [ then ] free allod [ franc en alo ] to Louis , king of France … but let it be known that this Gascony was the most free allod that the king of England had , before … king Henry received it back from the French king in homage ’ . |