Example sentences of "this was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It just started from there and Michael said he liked the way I played and that he would help me along in the industry , and this was just before his career hit . |
| 2 | This was just after Kelly had been killed , so everybody was aware of the danger . |
| 3 | This was just after the Licensing Act was repealed , which had previously confined printers to London , York , and Oxford and Cambridge universities . |
| 4 | This was just as the amateurs of the FA thought it should be . |
| 5 | I may also have dwelt too long on the years between 1690 and 1730 , but this was simply because it seems to be most people 's favourite period . |
| 6 | She urged an inquiry , but as she explained some months later , ‘ This was brusquely and rudely refused by Mr. Merlyn Rees , the then Secretary of State , on the grounds that my allegations were untrue . ’ |
| 7 | This was principally because he had taken up fire-watching duties there , and once or twice a week he would go up on the roof : he would have heard the sound of the aircraft , and the bursts of shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns , while all the time scrutinizing the " blacked out " city for the evidence of fires . |
| 8 | This was principally because of the failure to develop greater economic and political union . |
| 9 | Hodgskin concluded that if Britain was better governed than the states of Germany this was principally because of the greater freedom of expression in Britain and because the political education of the working classes had progressed further in Britain than in Germany . |
| 10 | This was principally because it contained the old Baghdad-Tehran highway . |
| 11 | This was shortly before another concession had been granted — one more to the British at the expense of the Russians . |
| 12 | The reason for this was probably that the sediments were deposited largely under sabkha conditions and therefore were particularly prone to exposure and freshwater flushing . |
| 13 | This was probably because both engines were developing full power , a situation I did n't want to continue . |
| 14 | If Picasso was dissatisfied with the Cadaquès paintings , this was probably because he felt them to be too hermetic and abstract . |
| 15 | As I said before , this was probably because he was so lonely . |
| 16 | This was mostly because the $40.3 billion charged to its cards was far ahead of Discover 's $19.4 billion , and because Citibank had built up three times as much outstanding debt as Discover . |
| 17 | And this was mostly because of old machine tools being tossed away . |
| 18 | This was sooner than had been expected , President José Eduardo dos Santos declaring that it was not necessary to wait for the end of the war to initiate the reforms . |
| 19 | This was largely but not exclusively an obsession of Congregationalists , much as it had been of mediaeval bishops . |
| 20 | This was largely because of the influence of Salha Mahmud , from Salah 's own lineage . |
| 21 | This was largely because the Dutch were conscious that they were operating on a narrow margin , and they did not want anything to distract them from their main purpose , which was to bring goods for trade and re-export to their great complex of ports , banks , and merchant houses around Amsterdam . |
| 22 | After the summer of 1921 the Anti-Waste threat receded , but this was largely because Unionist candidates were now on the bandwagon with them , demanding cuts as loudly as anyone . |
| 23 | The government decided against the enforcement of competitive tendering in the domiciliary services , but this was largely because of the undeveloped state of private and voluntary agencies in this area . |
| 24 | This was largely because the 1990 budget agreement — reached after a protracted and bitter struggle — had already dictated overall ceilings for defence , foreign aid and discretionary domestic spending , and had prohibited any tax cuts or the expansion of major benefit programmes unless specific revenue could be found to fund them . |
| 25 | Though resisters were often called " Gaullists " by Vichy officials or Germans , this was largely because " Gaullist " , like " communist " , had become a broad term of abuse . |
| 26 | This was largely because these were areas in which planning authorities were aimed at containing urban growth and preserving open country . |
| 27 | This was partly because of events that were going on around me : Kathleen building towards her retirement and , as was to become highly significant , Katrina deciding that she wanted to make a move as well . |
| 28 | Mr Tennant explained that this was partly because payments for the LVMH shares had been delayed , but added : ‘ We are not really exposed to UK interest rates . |
| 29 | This was partly because each brand of typesetting machine tended to have a different way of preparing the bit-map , but it also had to do with the very nature of the technique : rotating the letters , making them larger or smaller , or altering them in any way involved a new bit-map . |
| 30 | This was partly because the increasing integration of world capital markets has made it easier to finance current-account deficits . |