Example sentences of "this [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became for cognitio the standard form of execution where judgment had been given in a sum of money . |
| 2 | This doubled in size when , by mutual agreement , the BDDA absorbed an old charity known as " The Charitable and Provident Society for the Granting of Pensions to Aged and Infirm Deaf and Dumb . " |
| 3 | ( In 1986 this amounted to £10,500 . ) |
| 4 | According to some estimates this amounted to $3,600,000 million , or more than the annual US gross domestic product . |
| 5 | It was held that this amounted to recklessness . |
| 6 | If , for example , it were to be suggested that management had paid insufficient attention to the development of the company 's product base , establishing that this amounted to negligence would be highly problematical . |
| 7 | The trial judge found this amounted to negligence . |
| 8 | In 1985 , this amounted to £64 but the first prize was only £40 . |
| 9 | DataCare has generated most of Phonelink 's turnover to date — in 1992 , this amounted to £923,000 , while pre-tax profits , after £414,000 research and development spend , were £31,000 . |
| 10 | In 1982 this amounted to £750 on a bungalow costing £16 300 . |
| 11 | The simultaneous withdrawal of the state from regulative intervention in labour matters clearly advantaged employers and it is hard to deny that all this amounted to class legislation . |
| 12 | This amounted in effect to a grant of £1,000 a year , the annual amount of the lease which was now extinguished . |
| 13 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 14 | This led to redundancy charges of £400,000 , or half the 1991 figure . |
| 15 | It wanted newspapers and the radio to be able to report where things went wrong , especially if this led to matters being put right . |
| 16 | This led to fears in some quarters that the polytechnics as tough , pragmatic and workaday institutions were unlikely to create a climate in which art and design could grow and flourish . |
| 17 | It was perhaps unfortunate that potatoes could be grown on land which would not support other crops because this led to countries with poor rural economies turning more and more towards potatoes as their sole means of sustenance . |
| 18 | This led to companies like Dupont axing 189,000 jobs on a global basis . |
| 19 | This led to tensions , uneasily held in check and would eventually , though not until after the 1872 strike , bring about a split within the Edinburgh branch . |
| 20 | This led to incidents where US ships were stopped and searched . |
| 21 | This led to involvement in a wide range of speculative projects throughout Europe , North America , and the West Indies , and the huge resources at his disposal enabled him to embark on a vigorous attempt to secure control over the affairs of the East India Company . |
| 22 | Inevitably this led to sieges . |
| 23 | This led to imprisonment after which he sought greater freedom in America . |
| 24 | Changes in the official interest rate once again took on a high political profile and this led to problems with the conduct of monetary policy . |
| 25 | Because official sanctioning of a rise in interest rates could be slow , a " funding pause " could result : this led to problems with controlling broad money , which in turn could reinforce expectations of a rise in interest rates . |
| 26 | This led to calls for the resignation of the president of the University of Utah , and suggestions of unethical behaviour . |
| 27 | This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan . |
| 28 | The lower limit of TL dating of sediment is closely linked with uncertainty about how far the sediment was bleached in antiquity , and this led to development of the optically stimulated luminescence ( OSL ) technique . |
| 29 | At the end of 1989 joint military exercises were held with Singapore ( in Indonesia ) , and this led to speculation that Singapore might wish to negotiate military training facilities in the country to replace those which it currently used in Taiwan . |
| 30 | This led to developments in both music and the Liturgy which were probably more far-reaching than the Council Fathers anticipated . |