Example sentences of "this [was/were] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 2 | The the this was just at a just a custom you know . |
| 3 | But this was just during the strike ? |
| 4 | In this spirit I joined the Abortion Law Reform Association while still at school ; this was just before the passage of the 1967 Abortion Act . |
| 5 | We opposed various stages of the Bill , regretting the fact that it did not cover consumer safety ; but , on Third Reading , I committed our party at the Dispatch Box — this was just before an election — to honouring the existence of the Office of Fair Trading and the appointment of John Methven as director general . |
| 6 | I suspect that there 'll there 'd been a certain amount of alienation for a long time things that the men had to accept because the people with the money and therefore the power said that they had to you know a I think quarry men are very proud on one level great sort of craftsmen in a way and erm I 'm sure that you know th the last couple of years well I 've heard them say really tha that there 'd been things niggling them with the management but I suppose this was just like a blatant smack in the face and they realize that if they accepted this if they let the management walk all over them this was the thin end of the wedge you know that . |
| 7 | And this was just in the excavated part ; by extrapolation , the researchers conclude that the total sett consisted of about 880 metres of tunnels , with 124 open entrances . |
| 8 | This was just in the first half kids . |
| 9 | As the following table shows , this was well below the required numbers , as was the availability of places in foster homes and private lodgings . |
| 10 | This was well below the levels which had been necessary to meet the annual growth of demand before the War ( 712MW had been completed in 1938 ) , and also well below the level of around 1000MW a year which the CEB now considered necessary . |
| 11 | Their husbands were away and they did n't know if they 'd come back or not and er , one girl er th this was n't at the , near where I used to live at . |
| 12 | But this was n't like the other times . |
| 13 | Before she 'd gone very far , she could see that this was n't like the fogs she knew . |
| 14 | Well this was n't in the courts , counsellor . |
| 15 | This was also at the root of altered perspectives on the cultural role of the discipline . |
| 16 | This was also in the field of contempt of court and the rule which had been evolved was that Form N78 ( Notice to show cause why there should not be a committal to prison ) had to be signed by ‘ the proper officer ’ of the county court and that unless this was done , it was an invalid notice . |
| 17 | This was right up the top and there were a tiny attic bedroom thing was made into a not very salubrious but it had a cooker and a sink . |
| 18 | This was both for the hell of it , as well as for the annals of the newly developing discipline of psycho-anthropology , whose aims are in part to define the global range of human ability . |
| 19 | ( This was shortly before the scene I made in church , so maybe the two were connected . ) |
| 20 | This was shortly after the discovery by Paul Dirac , a previous holder of the Lucasian Chair , of the Dirac equation , which governs the behavior of the electron . |
| 21 | ’ I had explained that while this was probably in the best of taste and unlikely to be very illegal , it was already being done in California and he 'd be pushed to get third party insurance cover . |
| 22 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 23 | This was largely as a result of Eliot 's own initiative ; and what we knew of it was derived from the works of Jacques Maritain , which were largely the source , I suspect , of Eliot 's own knowledge . |
| 24 | This was not to the liking of the Social Democrats , who took a more nationalist position , placing national unification above Western allegiance in their order of priorities , and advocating a spurious ‘ third way ’ between East and West , a kind of German ‘ special path ’ . |
| 25 | There had been some war damage but this was not on a scale which lent itself to large-scale redevelopment . |
| 26 | This was not on a massive scale , for the area was sparsely populated in the past , and remains thinly populated even today . |
| 27 | And this was not on the women 's pages of the Daily Mail , but an article written by a woman on the Law page of the Guardian . |
| 28 | As for the claim that the older acts and the common law had allowed the imposition of harsher penalties , this was not for the simple fact of combination but for activities linked with industrial disputes that could have attracted prosecution for riot , intimidation , assault or destruction of property as much after 1799 as before . |
| 29 | ‘ This was not without a significant public response from animal welfare groups and pigeon fanciers ' organisations in the area . |
| 30 | She rarely smiled but this was not through a lack of good nature : her responsibilities had given her a serious expression . |