Example sentences of "to this [noun sg] was the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only exception to this experience was the 25 per cent fall in EC migrant employees in West Germany , from 732,000 to 520,000 ( Table 6.1 ) . |
| 2 | When I was in year 10 at school we took part in a T.V.E.I course , one part to this course was the community service work . |
| 3 | A sad and ironic pendant to this story was the fact that when Dowding was dismissed he could not betray Ultra by calling it to the defence of his strategy . |
| 4 | A drawback to this plan was the weather — that is to say , several large puddles and patches of mud were in evidence — and the fact that one would need to return to the billiard room again at some point to bolt the french windows from the inside . |
| 5 | A partial answer to this problem was the building of hundreds of windmills to pump water back into the specially constructed drainage channels , and these were succeeded by steam pumps ( see Stretham ) . |
| 6 | One of the long term trends identified in the introduction to this chapter was the decline of the privately rented sector . |
| 7 | The clincher to this image was The Housemartins . |
| 8 | Central to this process was the formulation and diffusion of a unique ideology based on the concept of service as a moral imperative . |
| 9 | You probably know that the person who introduced Patrick to this woman was the head of the Communist Party in Ireland . ’ |
| 10 | One exception to this statement was the attitude taken by the Bavarian Central Authority in the late 1980s in connection with products liability cases in the courts of the United States . |