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 | This was also at the root of altered perspectives on the cultural role of the discipline . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( This was shortly before the scene I made in church , so maybe the two were connected . ) |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ’ 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 . |
| 18 | This was largely as a consequence of his undoubted materialism , according to which all that exists is matter in motion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This was somewhere in the centre of town . |
| 21 | This was partly as a result of inherited policies , but was also because of the council 's desire ‘ to be seen to be doing something ’ to support its traditional political base of the skilled manual working class . |
| 22 | This was partly as a safety measure , but also as a result of a campaign by local councillors , who have been told about several near misses at Ruswarp . |
| 23 | This was partly for the reasons given above , but also due to the very large Conservative majority in the hereditary House of Lords , which soon rejected a Liberal attempt to amend the 1902 Education Act . |
| 24 | This was partly for the reasons discussed in Chapter 3 : more elderly people and medical advances which enabled more of them to benefit from treatments like joint replacement at even more advanced ages . |
| 25 | This was more to the Swedes ' liking , taking 5 of the first 8 places , including the top 3 . |
| 26 | This was more like a pause in the struggle . |
| 27 | This was more like the usual Taff . |
| 28 | But this was only for a second . |
| 29 | Yes , I was leaving alone , but I knew that this was only for the journey . |
| 30 | Oh well this was only for the local ! |