Example sentences of "this [was/were] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Russian frontier , running some 1,450km/900mls from Memel on the Baltic Sea to the Bukovina in northern Romania , was highly vulnerable to a German attack southward from East Prussia , especially if this were matched by an Austrian advance northward from Galicia . |
| 2 | The reasons for this were linked to the financial relationship between central and local government . |
| 3 | Exceptions to this were found in the older family where the wife had always been active and continued to work into her 70's , and where a specialised product like cheese was being produced for farm gate sales . |
| 4 | This was supported by the Political Declaration of the Conference of Non-Aligned Foreign Ministers in February 1981 , which called for a dialogue between the Southeast Asian states to resolve their differences and eliminate the involvement and threats of intervention by outside powers . |
| 5 | Construction of this was begun in the first half of the sixteenth century by the Donatory Captain Simão Gonçalves da Câmara . |
| 6 | This was recorded over a two week period . |
| 7 | This was recorded by the Hon. |
| 8 | A general election held in June 1987 resulted in the return to power of a coalition government led by Paias Wingti , but this was defeated in a parliamentary vote of no confidence on July 4 , 1988 , and replaced by a coalition led by Namaliu . |
| 9 | Despite several revolts during the eleventh century , Macedonia remained under Byzantine rule until this was challenged by the rising power of Serbia in the late thirteenth century , in the reign of Milutin ( 1282–1321 ) , and eclipsed by Dušan in the mid fourteenth century . |
| 10 | This was surmounted by a gilded griffin and bore a crudely painted canvas of hell 's mouth . |
| 11 | It laid down the general principle of comprehensive education which would have ended selection over a period ( but this was repealed in the 1979 Act ) . |
| 12 | This was built at the personal expense of the Rev. G.P. Howes 1888–99 . |
| 13 | This was built into the developing environment from the start , and continued to receive attention as and when the opportunity arose to help the children expand their existing range of choices . |
| 14 | This was built over a long period — both Peter Parler and Rejsek worked on it . |
| 15 | This was built in the 1550s for the Dryden family , but some of the banks and ditches still remain in the fields opposite the Hall . |
| 16 | I think some of this was lost on the non-Aryan members of our section , such as the Polynesians who could in no way pretend that their ancestry stretched back to the Vikings . |
| 17 | Hatcher , by contrast , prefers a 1377 figure in the 23/4–3 million range , and thinks it unlikely that this was exceeded until the second quarter of the sixteenth century . |
| 18 | A large part of this was destroyed in the 1990 gales , but fortunately we had underplanted wherever possible and the magnolias which are such a feature of the garden survived remarkably well . |
| 19 | This was named after a 19th century frontier poet who , according to the organiser of the competition , Don Nilsen , was a ‘ cross between Alfred , Lord Tennyson and Chief Sitting Bull ’ , and was ‘ so outstandingly bad that somehow she was good ’ . |
| 20 | This was devised in a rising market , in very different circumstances from today . |
| 21 | The late nineteenth century saw the emergence of a model of human origins based very much on Haeckel 's linear progressionism , but this was replaced in the early years of the twentieth century by a theory more in tune with the new paleontology . |
| 22 | This was replaced by a second Romanesque cathedral in 1097 which , in turn , was largely demolished when the present Gothic cathedral took its place ( 558 ) . |
| 23 | A new one had been built in 1708 and this was replaced by a further wooden bridge in 1750 , which was , in turn , replaced in 1764 . |
| 24 | There was a car ferry across the narrows of Loch Long , a source of delay on the journey to Kyle and Skye in pioneering days : this was replaced by the present road bridge earlier this century , and passage through Dornie , once slow and halting , is now swift . |
| 25 | There had always been bad blood between Robert and Edward Bruce ; now this was transmitted to the next generation apparently . |
| 26 | The matter was referred to the Committee on Privileges which recommended that the matter was covered by absolute privilege but when this was debated by the whole House , it was accepted that writing to a minister was not a proceeding before Parliament . |
| 27 | This was said with a direct simplicity which normally would have had its appeal for Alice . |
| 28 | This was separated from the other digits , giving their owners the ability to grasp and manipulate objects . |
| 29 | This was recognized in the 1430s by the author of The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye , when he advocated the use of a trade embargo to force Flemish compliance with English policies ( 43 , pp.5–6 ) . |
| 30 | There was always trenchant opposition to Japanese annexation of Korea and this was revealed on the left and the right of the political spectrum . |