Example sentences of "this [noun sg] was the [noun sg] " 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 | This market-place was the site of the annual fair , when swings , a roundabout with proper horses and a steam organ , shooting galleries , side-shows of all kinds and numerous stalls came to the town for three days . |
| 3 | One of the largest surveys of this kind was the University of Pittsburgh study . |
| 4 | However , the most valuable long-term effect of the plans for this index was the classification scheme which was devised in order to arrange it . |
| 5 | While both ideas turned out to be partially correct , the essential step in overcoming this difficulty was the application of an extra magnetic field — the so-called toroidal field — with lines of force parallel to the current flow round the torus . |
| 6 | But by far his main task on this story was the designing of the Mechonoids , or Mechons as the first scripts called them . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The first development in this field was the invention of Coberine by Unilever , working with a leading English chocolate company , which was patented in 1961 . |
| 9 | Sometimes this obstinacy was the refuge of the poor man who can not afford change and to whom stagnation has become a habit of mind necessary for survival ; at other times it represented a sound rejection of improper techniques culled by ‘ philosophical ’ amateurs from the journals of French and English agricultural societies . |
| 10 | The target the researchers were working towards in this case was the ability for its systems to recover from transient errors and other faults in the software . |
| 11 | The answer in this case was the arrival of warm air and its combination with an area of low pressure over Britain . |
| 12 | Well , the spark in this case was the Spring issue 's piece ‘ Moving with the Times . ’ |
| 13 | History in this case was the product of a specialized group ; and the arguments about the quality of the product were about its beauty , metre , wit , rather than about its truth , typicality and meaning . |
| 14 | This afternoon was the capper . |
| 15 | Except from a brief outburst from Sonny ( when Pat urges him to face reality , he protests , ‘ Reality is not life ! ’ ) , you would never know this play was the work of a poet rather than a TV comedy writer . |
| 16 | Watching over this assemblage was the Science and Art Department . |
| 17 | Perhaps the most general comment in this direction was the fact that many felt far less bloated and felt their mobility had consequently benefited . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This penance was the ground for growth in the interior realisation of the love of God . |
| 20 | This decision was the decision to provide the benefit to the taxpayers ' children and this decision involved no further expense on the college . |
| 21 | It was almost as if a necessary condition of being in this paradise was the commission of some frightful sin or crime that must result in expulsion from it . |
| 22 | This provision was the product of long debate , focussing on its obligatory character ( ’ in all cases ’ ) and on the meaning of ‘ civil and commercial ’ . |
| 23 | Det Con Gary Wilson , of North Ormesby CID , said : ‘ This money was the man 's life savings . |
| 24 | The reason for all the excitement over this newsheet was the information it contained ‘ The Allied armies are advancing on all Fronts ’ . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The culmination of this study was the publication of a number of manuscripts , among which was ‘ The Invading Socialist Society ’ , published in 1947 , and ‘ Notes on Dialectics ’ , published in 1948 . |
| 27 | One of the key elements of this study was the exercise of tight control over variables which may influence faecal bile acid profiles ; age , transit time , gall stones , cholecystectomy , hepatic function , hepatic metastases , previous surgery , and antibiotics . |
| 28 | An important feature of this study was the use of the daily prices of call options on the outstanding contracts for each index to calculate the implicit market estimates of the subsequent price volatility for each of the outstanding contracts . |
| 29 | The logical result of this attitude was , of course , the takeover of the most prominent media , which would involve placing them under more direct control , a corollary of this action was the suppression or limitation of any privately owned media that might either be critical of TANU and the Tanzanian Government or campaign for alternatives . |
| 30 | The originator of this research was the maverick James McConnell , at Ann Arbor , Michigan , who in a series of papers during the 1960s , first in conventional scientific journals and then in his own publication , the exotically named Worm-Runners Digest , reported experiments in which flatworms , trained by pairing light with electric shock , were chopped up and other , ‘ naïve ’ ( that is , untrained ) worms allowed to cannibalize them . |