Example sentences of "this [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rarely happened in the World Cup , even when a minnow played against a giant . |
| 2 | This eventually led to the initiation of the annual ‘ Puritan ’ Conference in 1950 ( since re-named the ‘ Westminster ’ Conference ) and which continues to this day . |
| 3 | This eventually led to the establishment of the Phillimore Committee , which issued a fairly modest report in 1974,1R and thence to the Contempt of Court Act 1981 . |
| 4 | This gradually lessened through the spring and disappeared completely in the summer . |
| 5 | Eventually , in November 1944 , a plug of incandescent lava poked up through the middle of the elevated dome , and this gradually rose during the course of the next year until it was over a hundred metres above the top of the dome , and nearly 300 metres above normal ground level . |
| 6 | This promptly led to the demonstration that the drug suppressed the otherwise rapid rejection of a kidney grafted from one dog into another dog . |
| 7 | This quickly emerged in the shape of Acciòn Nacional , founded in late April 1931 as an ‘ electoral organization to bring together the elements of order ’ . |
| 8 | This also applied to the subgroup with a curative tumour resection and is in accordance with other studies that used preoperative radiotherapy . |
| 9 | This also applied to the regulator and switchgear , the cells being manufactured in the cell shop , the lead plates , cast pasted , joined to the bridge , fitted in lead-lined teak containing boxes , formed and delivered complete . |
| 10 | This also matched with the grading for the post of Car Park Attendant ( Regional Headquarters ) . |
| 11 | Large landowners , in particular , often set about cultivating the loyalty and affection of the local villagers , since this also conformed to the notion of noblesse oblige which was part of the ethic of the country gentleman . |
| 12 | This probably resulted from the fall in sea level during the glacial period , which would have exposed more land around the continent , allowing the mantle to spread over a wider continent , to cover what is now shallow sea-bed , and to thicken inland along the line of the present coast . |
| 13 | This probably led to the practice which still exists of advertising agencies buying space in newspapers ( or time on television ) and receiving a commission from the media owner . |
| 14 | How ever none of this really detracted from the pleasure of seeing and holding such a splendid fish — I had caught my two-pound roach , nothing could take that away from me . |
| 15 | These doctors expressed a mixture of views about sexuality , often recognising the reality of female sexuality , including the role of the clitoris , but this sometimes coincided with the notion that women were naturally timid creatures and were natural invalids . |
| 16 | This initially resulted in the charge of murder being changed to attempted murder , with Professor Usher reluctantly forced to admit that his initial examination was inconclusive . |
| 17 | The key to this undoubtedly lay in the attraction to the RUC of the idea of research on how routine policing is affected by Northern Ireland 's security situation , and the appeal of giving ordinary policemen and women an opportunity to express their views about policing . |
| 18 | ( Part of the reason for this undoubtedly lay in the fact that the foraging hominids of whom we are speaking were in part already pre-adapted to upright posture by an evolutionary past different to that of today 's gelada baboon and because they probably already possessed cerebral development going beyond that of a mere monkey thanks to their common ancestry with today 's great apes . ) |
| 19 | This evidently happened under the influence of the Congress and its Manila Declaration . |
| 20 | This certainly happened in the case of Moses and the Egyptian magicians ( Exodus 7:8f ) . |
| 21 | This actually happened in the case of Sir Edmond 's chantry at St. Thomas of Acre , and in fact the Mercers ' Company took on the responsibility . |