Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | We remember who first performed that deed or developed this technique . |
| 2 | He thought of Jonas , wild in his padded cell ; had he acquired , or inherited this ? |
| 3 | Tell me , in the lease as originally drawn up would you be able to let my client know whether there was specific reference to the controversy over the dustbins or did this develop after the Maltese took over ? ’ |
| 4 | Did he just , from experience , know which button to push , or did this undeniable attraction she felt for him have its roots in something deeper ? |
| 5 | But it was not only the work of Vredeman de Vries that made this garden so remarkable . |
| 6 | It was the circumstances that made this achievement even more outstanding . |
| 7 | My real interest — beyond my own cancer — was the world I had just entered , those twin factors that made this visit so very different from my last one , age and illness . |
| 8 | It was not so much the kite design , rather , the principle of moving the centre of lift as the lines were pulled that made this early application a forecast of today 's steering methods . |
| 9 | The agriculture that made this growing wealth possible was highly organised , although with considerable variations within Sussex : all men worked not just for themselves , but for a lord . |
| 10 | Mr Paterson is at his best in conveying the feelings of those Brown tormented ; but oddly , given his professed admiration for his subject , he is less good at capturing the qualities that made this former fur salesman and trade-union official the deputy leader of his party and a powerful cabinet minister taken seriously even by those who disliked him . |
| 11 | Last Wednesday 's heavy New York papers , the Times and the Wall Street Journal , devoted acres of newsprint to the disastrous turn taken in the tide of IBM Corp 's affairs — but alongside , IBM still ran a chirpy RS/6000 ad with a picture of computer-generated bubbles , with a blurb entitled The Computer That Made This Picture is Also Making History . |
| 12 | It 's their money that made this possible . |
| 13 | The catalyst that made this possible was Dionysiac music . |
| 14 | The vast majority of the biomedical research that made this possible was carried out on animals . |
| 15 | But w was it , was it the size of China that made this necessary ? |
| 16 | Yes , I think one of the main things that , that made this possible was the improvements in heating . |
| 17 | The committee that produced this report was set up to consider how public schools ( defined as those belonging to the Headmasters ' Conference or the Governing Bodies Association , together with ‘ comparable schools for girls ’ ) could develop and extend their association with the general education system . |
| 18 | PERHAPS it was the power of positive thought that produced this Thistle win , perhaps not . |
| 19 | She realised from the quizzical looks that met this further information that she had made matters worse rather than better . |
| 20 | People would think he was a queer , they were the ones that got this . |
| 21 | I think I 'd have to actually , should have perhaps warned you about this , but er , er , in point of fact , not too many people got this , I think there was one of two that got this wrong . |
| 22 | He slumped , then turned slightly , staring through the gloom of the house towards the north , as if he could see through the walls , through the wood , to that place of battle , that cold place , which lay northwards and to which he and Tallis — as everything that passed this way seemed to be moving . |
| 23 | Sutherland continued : ‘ But lately , in his perpetual need to IRRITATE , to keep The Smiths APART , Morrissey 's taken on a cosmetic political stance which could be a dark mirror intentionally reflecting the pathetic propaganda that polluted this nation just prior to a general election . ’ |
| 24 | Do n't be fooled by the hugely entertaining test in South Africa — it was only the brilliance of Australia that stopped this show piece game — played under the new laws — from turning into a shambles , says STEPHEN JONES ( Sunday Times ) . |
| 25 | Biochemical indicators of renal tubular stimulation predicted response to treatment , but these indicators depended on the response criteria used : low serum phosphate and low TmP correlated with a poor response when length of response was examined , whereas TmCa correlated with a fall in CCa from day 0 to day 6 , and accord with other studies that used this response criterion . |
| 26 | Her heart thudded painfully as he leaned over the high beige bench top that bordered this part of the nurses ' station and spoke absently to Deana . |
| 27 | The sight of the two customers that entered this time stayed her hand holding the small brass scoop that was about to transfer a minute amount of coconut chips to the scale . |
| 28 | The Johnson Matthey contingent in this year 's Royston Fun Run raised a superb total of £2,000 and the four JM employees that entered this year 's London Marathon have raised a total of well over £1,500 . |
| 29 | Controlling and reproducing the cell was , it seemed , all about controlling and reproducing information ; and what distinguished the molecules that embodied this new idea , proteins , DNA and RNA , from the much more boring small molecules that until then biochemists had worked with was that these giant molecules seemed to embody information ; they were , it appeared , informational macromolecules . |
| 30 | The revolution that toppled this edifice in 1979 was not the work of any single organized movement . |