Example sentences of "of this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The impetus for the development of this framework was the realization that a common point in discussions with managers of innovative activities was the issue of uncertainty . |
| 2 | And ironically , in view of the Minister 's remarks about business interests in broadcasting , the main beneficiary of this expenditure was the Commercial Service and the companies using it to advertise their products . |
| 3 | Price notes that one potent expression of this transformation was the physical change that took place in bakers ' shops . |
| 4 | An example of this activity was the petition which , pursuant to a resolution of the Liverpool Congress in 1899 , the BDDA presented to King Edward VII in December 1901 . |
| 5 | In the centre of this grouping was the telephone administration itself ; its exact status varied between countries from being within a central government Department ( as in France ( to being a partly state-owned commercial company ( Italy and Spain ) . |
| 6 | An important indicator of this development was the debate on the notion of linguistic equality which took place in 1983 at the conference of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain . |
| 7 | A key catalyst of this development was the signing of the Anglo-Irish Agreement in November 1985 which awarded the Irish government a greater consultative role in Northern Irish affairs . |
| 8 | An aspect of this story was the total absence of the Doctor from Episodes Three and Four . |
| 9 | Part of the beauty of this revolution was the recognition that at the level of genes and proteins the mechanisms used by all animals are almost universal . |
| 10 | But perhaps the most important aspect of this revolution was the growing realisation that a company 's only real source of competitive advantage was its own people . |
| 11 | The most significant product of this school was the work of Karl Brandt ( 1854–1931 ) , which applied the methods of agricultural chemistry to the study of plankton growth . |
| 12 | The peak of this system was the separate but often closely coordinated authority wielded by bishop and ealderman over the total shire . |
| 13 | The gyroscope of this system was the world 's financial capital , London . |
| 14 | The main feature of this system was the relatively small and , on trend , declining proportion of public revenue which came from direct taxation . |
| 15 | The most famous exponent of this approach was the nineteenth-century Italian physician , Cesare Lombroso . |
| 16 | Perhaps the greatest achievement of this approach was the prediction by Young and by Helmholtz ( in Mollon 1982 ) , in the nineteenth century , of the existence of three classes of colour-sensitive receptor in the retina , each sensitive to a different wavelength of light , a prediction only confirmed by direct measurement in the last thirty years ( Mollon 1982 ) . |
| 17 | Treading almost on the heels of this conviction was the bogey of Havelock Wilson himself for whom many employers harboured feelings " perilously near hatred " . |
| 18 | Featuring prominently in the centre of this maelstrom was the towering figure of Richard Baxter . |
| 19 | The most disturbing aspect of this incident was the evidence it provided of a residual antisemitism in Poland , disproportionate to the residue of a once-great Jewish community . |
| 20 | A further example of this caginess was the list of companies that refused to be interviewed for a Today Tonight programmed on gold mining in March 1990 : Riofinex , Glencar , Feltrim 's Conor Haughey and Navan Resources all refused to be interviewed for the programme , leaving the defence of the mining industry in the hands of the Institute of Mining and Metallurgy , Ennex International and a speaker from Tara Mines , rather than Tara Prospecting . |
| 21 | ’ . Prior to the establishment of the modern police system , the control of this underclass was the responsibility of the army working for the monarch or government . |
| 22 | of this discussion was the fact that we had , and it was , certainly was the last time we talked about it because that 's why we only sent one person on it . |
| 23 | The crowning piece of this legislation was the introduction of personal pensions in 1988 , which allowed individuals to opt out of their company plans and start a personal pension . |
| 24 | According to Taft and Ross , the object of this legislation was the ‘ substitution of orderly procedures for trials of combat ’ ( Taft and Ross , 1969:287 ) . |
| 25 | The result of this work was the ‘ group system ’ of investigation which was attached to the next edition of Annex 13 and which is now contained in the ICAO Manual of Aircraft Accident Investigation . |
| 26 | The first club of this type was the International Rottweiler and Leonberger Club . |
| 27 | An innovation for courses of this type was the inclusion of a series of photogeological field exercises in south and east Jordan . |
| 28 | The longest-running powder ski of this type was the Fischer Future Extreme , which only went out of production a couple of years ago . |
| 29 | Wife of Philip IV , she was also his niece ; she had been betrothed to his son Baltasar Carlos but on his death at seventeen the King ( her uncle ) married her himself , and the only surviving son of this union was the cretinous Charles II , last of the Habsburg line . |
| 30 | The culmination of this breakthrough was the formation of the ‘ Union of Struggle for the Emancipation of the Working Class ’ ( 1895 ) , under Lenin 's leadership . |