Example sentences of "this [noun sg] [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To find out what her research subjects were getting up to , this scientist took the direct approach . |
| 2 | With this purchase came the inevitable decision to ‘ get rid of the horses so long as a comfortable place could be found ’ . |
| 3 | The lack of a contingency plan for this eventuality left the all-important Army of Africa , together with its commanders , General Franco and Colonel Yagüe ( who , under Franco 's orders , had been in charge of the Legion during the repression of the Asturian revolutionary movement in 1934 ) , stranded on the far side of the Straits of Gibraltar . |
| 4 | This case had the desired effect of persuading other recalcitrant authorities to proceed more quickly . |
| 5 | Coupled with the almost equally difficult situation in Hungary this resistance disrupted the fragile unity of the Habsburg dominions . |
| 6 | This certificate produced the desired effect and I was allowed to stay at home on parade days . |
| 7 | This decision established the general rule that if an applicant for judicial review seeks to protect rights or interests recognized only in public law , he or she must do so by AJR under Ord. 53 . |
| 8 | This election inaugurated the final phase of de Gaulle 's period in office . |
| 9 | This experience shaped the political ambition that led ultimately to his coup of 23 July 1952 . |
| 10 | This action received the usual disapproval although , for once , not from the Jewish leaders but from the crowd in general . |
| 11 | This action enabled the new infilling east elevation clad in painted timber boards to be installed to the rear of the original wall-plane , better exposing to view the cylindrical forms of the kilns ( Plate 16 ) . |
| 12 | This research encompassed the 1979 Winter of Discontent when selected public service workers went on strike against a government-imposed pay limit . |
| 13 | Although this research involved the 1959 Act , unlike social workers , additional training has not been required of psychiatrists under the 1983 Act . |
| 14 | The first part of this chapter detailed the significant rise in both the real and the relative income of pensioners . |
| 15 | This result implicated the postsynaptic cell , and in particular Ca 2+ signalling in the induction process . |
| 16 | Five members of this Committee joined the Central Authority under Citrine 's chairmanship when the Bill received the royal assent in September of the same year . |
| 17 | ( A publication which appeared after the preparation of this manuscript reported the normal range of arterial oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry at 1610 m altitude in Denver . |
| 18 | After 1945 this philosophy became the conventional wisdom and governments accepted that they had a responsibility for macroeconomic management , predominantly through their own fiscal position . |
| 19 | This plan underwent the full consultation stage and was employed for over ten years for development control purposes . |
| 20 | This boy became the Dutch poet , Ed Hoornik . |
| 21 | This window faced the evil-smelling back-yard and a tall , dismal wall . |
| 22 | This Act amended the 1944 legislation which had divided schooling at age 11 between primary and secondary , by allowing the break to come between the ages of 10 and 12 , to cover the development of middle schools . |
| 23 | A number of farms had a son , or other member of the family , who would attend but of the 87 to whom this question applied the main answer received was : ‘ it depends ’ . |
| 24 | This migration outflanked the Himalayan barrier by moving down through Manchuria and China . |
| 25 | This work enabled the turf-faced clay rampart located at Ivel House to be reinterpreted as the north side of a fort , while further excavations identified its probable southern and western sides , suggesting a vexillation fortress of c. 7 ha ( 17.3 acres ) . |
| 26 | This work organised the known theory of permutation groups and its relationship with Galois Theory . |
| 27 | This issue made the front page on the Daily Mail as well as its editorial . |
| 28 | ‘ A friend of mine owned the studio and had been in the music industry a long time and was amazed that this 16-year-old had the whole production idea worked out in her head . ’ |
| 29 | This period witnessed the gradual disengagement of London Jewry from the activities of the LCC , as Jews moved politically away from Labour politics and geographically beyond the LCC boundary . |
| 30 | Perhaps because John was fostering each Girl 's personality within their ‘ spots ’ in troupe dances , this period produced the brightest Tiller sparks . |