Example sentences of "this [was/were] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It occurred to him that if this were over the Front he would be a gift for even the stupidest German pilot .
2 Speaking of hearing in Gertrude Stein 's prose the ‘ hypnotic ’ ‘ rhythms ’ of ‘ the saxophone ’ he concluded that if this were of the future , then the future was ‘ of the barbarians ’ .
3 This were in a school playground .
4 Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith .
5 This was about the year 1200 ( the charter is undated ) , but there is the fishpond today .
6 Dana Gillespie : ‘ This was about the time The Beatles were just starting and they were considered to have long hair , but if you look at the pictures of them in those days , they had almost crew-cuts compared to David 's which was honestly long , bright yellow , bleached blonde from a bottle .
7 information about a particular piece , so , Simon and I sort of , we were talking kind of fairly casually about that , but erm , what we agreed to do is , this was about the time when we first got the equipment I think and it , it occurred to me that you , and I 've checked this now , that you can actually plug a cassette , you know , a Walkman type of player into either the microphone for the
8 The council insisted on erecting another — this was about the time I arrived — and it got delivered in handy , fit-together sections .
9 He was the first big money(950,000) signning by Allan Clark , personally I think Clark just signed him because everybody else was spending absurd amounts money on crap , this was about the time malcolm allison was spending 1 to 2 million quid every other week on unknown bits of shit , so clarke thought lets join in .
10 Pons says this was as a result of seeing his and Fleischmann 's work , whereas Jones insists that the DOE suggested it .
11 But this was as a result of no great advance in the technical skills available to the discipline , nor of any weight accorded to the profession in recognition of its claims , although the garden city lobby nationally and internationally was vociferous enough and attracted figures of influence .
12 The most crucial test of this was at a standing stone at Kintraw , Argyll .
13 This was at a time when the rest of the world , following the American lead , was developing a clear preference for water-cooled designs .
14 Again at the minimum , £60 million of this accrued directly to central government through VAT and duty on petrol , liquor and cigarettes ( this was at a time when VAT was eight per cent , not the current fifteen per cent ) .
15 This was at a time when prices were rising at 30–40 per cent per annum .
16 This was at a time when cylinders were only used for dictation purposes , not for recording music , and a speed of about 100 revolutions per minute was found adequate .
17 This was at a time when the work load was growing .
18 This was at a time when there was a lot of unpleasantness shown to people with AIDS , ’ he said in an interview with The Mail on Sunday .
19 Only when unemployment rose , however , were policies of this kind put into practice and this was at a time when there were insufficient jobs .
20 This was at a time when the principle of vaccination had still not been universally accepted , although the Vaccination Act of 1840 had enabled the guardians to provide it for paupers .
21 This was at a time when the same gp160 product was being vigorously touted by MicroGeneSys as a prophylactic vaccine candidate ; a time when , as now , being able to mimic as closely as possible the natural viral antigens was held to be important for such a vaccine .
22 The SPD seemed to have compromised its principles in joining the ‘ Kiesebrandt ’ coalition and this was at a time of growing questioning of capitalist society by intellectuals , students and radical politicians .
23 In addition , this was at a time when Coenwulf , king of the Mercians , was also giving protection to opponents of Eardwulf .
24 This was at a time when the resistance of Japan was expected to continue for anything up to eighteen months later .
25 This was at a time when British opinion was becoming evenly divided over the pros and cons of seeking prominence on the global stage .
26 And this was at the back of the head , only the central seam contaminated , and that only meagrely .
27 This was at the church just down the road from here ? ’
28 Health authority staff , not unreasonably , felt that this was at the cost of forgoing routine casework support for a wide range of people ( horizontal efficiency ) and from their point of view , therefore , the developmental role of the CMHTs represented an unacceptable opportunity cost .
29 Turning to Europe , Mr Ridley said that the Government was pressing other EC countries to reduce their industrial subsidies , for this was at the heart of a genuine single market after 1992 .
30 It did launch a general economic survey in 1953 , but this was at the request of the Special Council of Ministers , itself responding to national government worries about a slump in demand .
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