Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was conceded by the court that this finding was on a strict view irrelevant , since there was a break between the clearing of the premises and the assault with which the appellant had been charged , which was a separate incident . |
| 2 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 3 | At first this support was for a cautious continuation of the patching of the existing system . |
| 4 | This payment was towards a purchase price of $800,000 or $850,000 , ( the entries in the bank and gallery records are contradictory ) . |
| 5 | And yet this field was like every other since the archers had become the terrible force they were ; their part was done first , but nonetheless at the end it was seen to be the determining part . |
| 6 | He accepted however that once this case was over the real hunt for more suitable accommodation would begin and by that time , at least , there could be the introduction of such a carer . |
| 7 | ‘ A pre-trial inquiry , such as the appellant contends the judge in this case was under a duty to embark upon , would itself be open to abuse by unscrupulous and dishonest accused persons . |
| 8 | Excitation in this case was with a laser line in the ultraviolet , well within the absorption band responsible for the yellow color . |
| 9 | This struggle was of an economic nature concerned with the competition for clients . |
| 10 | This expertise was behind the opening of the North Terminal at Gatwick , the new Terminal 4 at Heathrow and the rebuilding of Terminal 3 to give far greater comfort than before . |
| 11 | Although this text was in no way officially commissioned , it was to be the fount of the canon law . |
| 12 | This hypothesis was for a long time a subject of much contention in anthropology and is not even now entirely laid to rest , but the meagre historical record we possess can not possibly support such an assertion . |
| 13 | Protection is granted , in the context of a trade dispute , to interference with contract ( and not merely a contract of employment ) , to intimidation or conspiracy to injure and to interference with trade by unlawful means but by the Employment Act 1980 this protection was to a large extent withdrawn in case of ‘ secondary action . ’ |
| 14 | Most of this industry was on the coalfield at Coatbridge and in the Clyde valley from Motherwell to Glasgow . |
| 15 | Byrne 's letter was very nearly counterproductive , as it convinced Smith 's trade union backers that the sooner this contest was over the better . |
| 16 | ( All this action was at the furthest end from where Leeds fans were stood , so I could n't see much . |
| 17 | This vote was of the utmost significance . |
| 18 | This club was on a small island off the coast ; it was reached by a causeway . |
| 19 | An RAF Warrant Officer in the Medical Administration branch , this Veteran was in the war from the start , helping to set up a field hospital . |
| 20 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 21 | & this Helianor was of the daughters , heirs |
| 22 | This was a bar that er went under the bomb like that when they fastened them up , and then when they dropped the bombs this bar was in a clip , like where me finger is , i in a clip so when they released them it dropped out of this clip the bar went as well of course , down that went down went the bomb drop bars with it used to be make them day and night and things like that and er of course there was er Bloxwich Lock and Stamping we used to do odd stamping , odd forgings and things li and er that was other part of the war work . |
| 23 | But she had to admit that this child was of a different type altogether : her voice , her manner suggested a refined type of background . |
| 24 | Clearly some of this work was beyond the scope of the youngest children , nevertheless the reception class joined in wherever possible and their teacher attended all staff meetings and discussions . |
| 25 | The overriding emphasis in all this work was on the ‘ network ’ , which in silicates was found to be made of regular chains or layers of SiO4 molecules sharing common oxygens . |
| 26 | The emphasis in this work was on the collection of statistical data , i.e. in the form of numbers , rather than descriptions of particular ways of life . |
| 27 | This issue was at the heart of the Report of the Layfield Committee on Local Government Finance ( Cmnd 6453 ) published in 1976 . |
| 28 | Well this morning I were listening to er Roy Normal on the , the Welsh radio programmes and he was talking to er various people and he told one young woman who had been in a certain area in world where they were filming , er and she 'd gone to see this filming with Alan Ladd and all these , you know , and anyway she goes she went into the er local chip shop and the er assistant for the film , the labourer came in and ordered , ordered forty packet of chips and er and he was saying oh it were for film you see , so she thought I 'd go down and see what 's happening , so she went down to the pier end and they were all er doing the performance and er , the producer says now all you people there , he says that 's interested , he said would you all go onto the pier , he says and talk he says and read , make it , you know make it interesting , so they all piled onto the pier and er , they filmed what they had to film with the pier in the background and all the people that were on the pier , so this girl was on the film you know , then after it had finished , he thanked everybody , he says now then do n't walk off the pier , he says will you as you 're going off walk past this , the table at the end there and their bloke give them three pound ten a piece |
| 29 | So he said , you were on the right and this lady was on the left near the gutter side ? |
| 30 | Most of this capacity was in the Khuzestan area , where prospecting began in the early years of this century , culminating in the discovery in 1908 of the first of a cluster of oil-bearing structures identified in a northwest-southeast trend on a flank of the Zagros mountain range . |