Example sentences of "this [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This expanded dramatically in the 1980s . |
| 2 | The exaggeration or over-simplification of the notion of commonality within the gens as regards ownership of property is also apparent in the discussion of kinship and this led equally to a fundamental misunderstanding . |
| 3 | By the time that the Book of Isaiah was written however , things were being said about Israel 's God that could not be said of any other , and this led increasingly to the claim that the God of Israel is the only one that exists . |
| 4 | This led on to contracts for shipping grain to Flanders . |
| 5 | This led on to many of our older members recalling their experiences too . |
| 6 | This led on in later generations to a widespread belief among orthodox Christians that the Bible should be looked upon as a compendium of truths directly revealed by God , inerrant and totally consistent in all its parts , and thus the supremely authoritative source of information not only on points of doctrine but on any other matters on which it might touch . |
| 7 | When parents ceased to be available , primitive man could well have felt the loss , and the need to transfer the dependence elsewhere and this led eventually to some form of imagined substitute , or ‘ god ’ as the surrogate . |
| 8 | What was new about Nicol 's slicing was the method , and this led immediately to important advances in palaeontology , and eventually to the opening up of a new world of discovery for petrology . |
| 9 | The poorest households suffered the most , and this led temporarily to both a levelling and an aggregate move downwards in Volga peasant society . |
| 10 | Since there was a higher population and a greater surplus of output people had a higher disposable income ; this led directly to a desire for more than just food and a demand for material commodities for the household ( pottery , cutlery , more and better clothing in cotton and wool ) . |
| 11 | I was asked questions , and this led out of it . |
| 12 | This arose partly from the ever present pressure from official sources to complete the survey of the country . |
| 13 | We 've got two officer 's for example who are leading on working the young people in the town , Youth Development Officer 's er we , the Local Government Unit has a policy team initiated work on the youth policy , and this arose out of erm a member seminar 's , September eighty nine , where er the members felt that really the Council was n't doing enough for young people , that we as a Council , not not to think about young in the way we deliver our services and it was felt that we needed to go out and talked to young people , which we did in the winter of that year , erm and find out what they wanted from us , and the res as a result of that , that , that policy , and that consultation exercise has now developed into a front line service where we have two people full time working with young people in the town and that 's on various things , graffiti project , the underpasses in the town we , which have got graffiti type I mean I know there not everybody 's cup of tea , but I mean they way . |
| 14 | The precise linguistic justification offered in support of this centred primarily on two features of the sentence . |
| 15 | This centred originally on the right-wing Nation Party and the sentiment has persisted , with clashes between rival fundamentalist groups common before the 1980 military coup . |
| 16 | In the mid 1970s there was an abortive attempt to develop a new way of managing the industry in the Territories Plan ( which would have given a structure very similar to that developed in Germany in much earlier years and still in use both on DB and DR ) , but this failed largely on account of union opposition . |
| 17 | The former believed that it was possible to regenerate people ( this applied emphatically to the young ) and , therefore , progress could be assumed . |
| 18 | I mentioned earlier that just when you thought that the moment had arrived for Mike McFarlane to make a breakthrough he had a setback , and in 1981 this applied also to me . |
| 19 | This applied both to parents of young children who were themselves in emotional or material crises , and to parents in conflict with their older children about their behaviour . |
| 20 | This applied particularly to Supplementary Benefit , where 79 per cent of eligible elderly people claimed , compared with 86 per cent of the non-elderly . |
| 21 | According to Radzinowicz and Hood ( 1986 , p.42 ) , this applied particularly to Engels , who seemed to radically change his mind in the course of his life : |
| 22 | This applied particularly to the employed-as-required surface or day-workers . |
| 23 | Others were pure artists , to whom war and other nonaesthetic factors were quite irrelevant ; this applied especially to artists working in the 1930s , such as those associated with nonobjective art and St Ives . |
| 24 | Others were pure artists , to whom war and other nonaesthetic factors were quite irrelevant ; this applied especially to artists working in the 1930s , such as those associated with nonobjective art and St Ives . |
| 25 | This contributed also to persistent readership duplication , with the average middle-class reader in the 1960s still reading about 1.25 national dailies . |
| 26 | A preference for primogeniture or other forms of impartible inheritance was common among senior branches , such as the Albret or Durfort , and it is arguable that this contributed substantially to their survival . |
| 27 | This surfaced prominently in considering members ' views about the core work experience requirements for membership . |
| 28 | As this rose vertically into the air , the nuees rolled away sideways from its base , and down the flanks of the volcano . |
| 29 | During the war opinion polls in the United States implied that around 80 per cent of people supported Bush 's Gulf policy ; this rose further after the start of the land war on Feb. 24 . |
| 30 | This occurred frequently during field-work , and in these circumstances the police concerned negotiated the appearances of the case in order to decide whether or not something abnormal was taking place . |