Example sentences of "this [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | It was held that this amounted to recklessness . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The trial judge found this amounted to negligence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This amounted in effect to a grant of £1,000 a year , the annual amount of the lease which was now extinguished . |
| 8 | This led to redundancy charges of £400,000 , or half the 1991 figure . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This led to imprisonment after which he sought greater freedom in America . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Commercially , this led to disaster . |
| 14 | This led to insubordination amongst the Seventh Infantry who attacked the Governor and wounded one of the officers who accompanied him . |
| 15 | Inevitably this led to confusion as to where the centre of power and decision-making really lay and seemed to preclude the maintenance of a coherent policy . |
| 16 | This led to confusion over concentration with the term minimum inhibitory concentration ( MIC ) being used as and mistaken for dosage rate when it merely related to the bacteriostatic performance against certain bacteria under artificial conditions and at specific concentrations . |
| 17 | In time this led to resentment , especially among the growing educated group who felt the arrogance of the British most directly . |
| 18 | This led to sanserif type-faces , like Gill Sans . |
| 19 | This led in turn to the most highly successful venture in buying and selling of business aircraft the aviation industry had seen . |
| 20 | This led in turn to larger and higher buildings , extended window and door space and a complexity of design for exterior and interior undreamed of in Romanesque architecture . |
| 21 | This led in turn to the creation of the Standing Committee on Employment , composed of representatives of the Commission , Council , employers and trade unions . |
| 22 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 23 | This arose in part from a strong sense of parliament 's unique place and function in the political system . |
| 24 | This arose from discontent voiced both outside and within the Survey . |
| 25 | For example , is this shared with family and wider community ? |
| 26 | All this made for contentment , and the greater part of the century was a time of content , though a bad harvest invariably meant serious food riots . |
| 27 | This applied in relation to all the foundation subjects in England , but only the core subjects in Wales . |
| 28 | A purpose built second floor flat with electric ‘ Elvaco ’ heating , about twenty years old , and situated in a most popular location in this sought after development . |
| 29 | This met with opposition from representatives from civil-law jurisdictions on the ground that it was incompatible with the possession vaut titre principle and had implications going beyond the field of leasing , and the Study Group eventually concluded that no progress could be made on this issue and limited the statement of priority to conflicts between the lessor and the lessee 's general creditors , subject to perfection of the lessor 's title in accordance with any public notice requirements of the applicable law . |
| 30 | All the fifteen studies of this reviewed by Box suggest a strong association ( over time or cross-sectionally ) between economic inequality and crime in general ( though this is not true of five studies on homicide specifically ) ( Box , 1987 , pp. 86–98 ) . |