Example sentences of "this [vb past] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 2 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 3 | This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly 's moral right to initiate political reforms . |
| 4 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 5 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 6 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 7 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 8 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 9 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 10 | As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name . |
| 11 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 12 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |
| 13 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 14 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 15 | e.g. " Combined with the NEP and the thaw in Russia 's relations with other countries , this made some Bolsheviks fear the onset of a creeping reaction ; they were haunted by fears of Thermidor " . |
| 16 | Although this made less appeal to Chinese taste than paler varieties , it was found useful for feeding a growing export market to the west . |
| 17 | There is little doubt that it was the labour shortage which caused the shift to leasing , but although this provided more revenue than persistence in demesne farming would have done it still left the landowner with reduced resources . |
| 18 | This excluded any relaxation that had its onset within three seconds before or one second after the onset of a swallow . |
| 19 | But in style and technique it denoted a big advance , notably in terms of realism ; this involved such elements as exact motion control , detail in modelling , quality in matte printing , and inventiveness in the creation of robots , monsters etc . |
| 20 | This involved some form of lexical checking . |
| 21 | This stunted any development and modernisation and kept China in a backward state . |
| 22 | The painful problem of the corpse kept overlong was alleviated gradually by the provision of mortuaries , to which bodies could be removed pending burial ; but this severed another link between the living and their dead , as the traditional overnight vigil by the body came to be abandoned . |
| 23 | This lured another couple to their feet : rather , a very much older man and a young woman who held him away from her , one hand pleating his sleeve . |
| 24 | Finding he had an inadequate amount of carpeting and the shop could no longer supply the same colour , he simply ordered another shade and was oblivious to the clash of reds this created half way up the stairs . |
| 25 | This created several offences designed to protect women from sexual exploitation . |
| 26 | This occasioned some surprise . |
| 27 | This received some support from the statistics , as far as Conservatives are concerned ; the total number of ministerial appearances on regional news and weekly programmes in the period analysed by Blumler was 124 , while Conservative back-benchers appeared 104 times . |
| 28 | Although this received some publicity , it did not compare with the media attention given a year or so later to the drug problems in Seoul . |
| 29 | This caused much concern in the Haçienda . |
| 30 | St Bartholomew 's church at Covenham was declining to the state of danger when a parish in California asked if they might have it and ship it stone by stone to the U.S.A. This caused much controversy for a while but finally it was decided that it should remain and be safely maintained on its original consecrated site . |