Example sentences of "[coord] this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Conradin had no people to love , and this chicken was the boy 's dearest friend . |
| 2 | But they had to protect services and this budget was the only way to do so . |
| 3 | Dana had sailed under a blue sky for too long to have any defence against storms , and this man was the worse kind of cyclone . |
| 4 | Three early poems were published in the Irish Penny Journal , and this volume was the first book she ever possessed . |
| 5 | In the course of two years North developed his own slide show , part accurate , part exaggeration , part emotion , and this representation was the bedrock of the domestic campaign for the contras : the world in 57 pictures of blurry military bases and Communist commandantes , utterly simple in its division between good and bad , and curiously believable . |
| 6 | But this sector was the first to feel the heat of intense competition and spiralling development costs . |
| 7 | In the 1860s there was open conflict between the Governor and the non-official members over the size of the colony 's military contribution to the imperial budget and other financial matters , but this fracas was the exception rather than the rule . |
| 8 | Previously they had the conviction and the confidence but this tape was the final proof , the confirmation of the possibilities . |