Example sentences of "this was [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thermoluminescence dating of the clay core suggested that the statue was only a few centuries old , and this was supported by technical examination and analysis which showed that the casting technology and the metal used were quite typical of the Renaissance , and equally unlike those used by the Romans . |
| 2 | Obviously this was challenged at some point . |
| 3 | This was challenged by several researchers , most notably Kenneth Kidd , of Yale . |
| 4 | This was repeated for 10 portfolios over the 420 months between 1931 and 1965 . |
| 5 | This was built for United Air Lines as DC-3A-197B NC 18942 in April 1948 and served with series of US operators until it found itself in the Sudan ( as N8044 ) in 1976 , before going to South Africa and joining Caprivi Airways in 1978 as ZS-KEX . |
| 6 | Even though we have no record of how this was communicated to 5 Corps , we assume that in view of the urgency of the situation , the decision was passed on from HQ Eighth Army by telephone . |
| 7 | Even this was influenced by international conditions . |
| 8 | This was exhibited in various places with great financial success . |
| 9 | Much of this was funded by personal borrowing , providing jobs in Credit and Banking ; the security for lending often coming from people 's own homes , as the desire to own and furnish better homes set off a spiral of house-price inflation . |
| 10 | This was said through gritted teeth . |
| 11 | This was tested in two patients with severe ARDS . |
| 12 | This was expressed with cheerful humility . |
| 13 | A central part of this was expressed in two catchwords of the bourgeoisie : prudence and postponement , ritualistic guidelines to the bourgeoisie at this stage of its history but also presented secondarily as models for the poor . |
| 14 | Like most Greek bronzes this was cast in several sections : skirt , upper torso , limbs ( one can see where the lost left arm was attached ) : and the side-curls separately from the separate head . |
| 15 | This was condemned in western countries , but feeling against jews was common everywhere : Freud 's father had his hat knocked off by a Gentile who shouted at him ‘ Jew , get off the pavement ’ , and Jewish shops were smashed by miners in Tredegar in 1911 . |
| 16 | This was completed by 10th November , and Hall sent it to Palmerston on the following day . |
| 17 | This was made on 24 July , between cardinal Beaton , the earls of Huntly , Argyll , Lennox , Bothwell , Sutherland and Menteith , the bishops of Moray , Whithorn , Dunblane and Orkney , and thirty-six prominent lords and lairds . |
| 18 | Invariably this was made of boiled capon or chicken and beef , thickened with a special sort of pasta called tempestina ( ‘ small hail ’ ) or home-made tagliatelle . |
| 19 | This was geared to communal audiences , such as factory workers , who wanted background listening , and it was broadcast from the factory floor . |
| 20 | An impressive demonstration of this was given at Great Casterton in the first section across the town rampart in 1950 ( Corder , 1951 ) , excavated with meticulous care as part of a training school ; every sherd was collected and recorded , totalling in all about 100 from the bank . |
| 21 | All- trans retinoic acid ( 25mgml -1 in dimethylsulphoxide ) was diluted 1/10 in sesame seed oil and 200μl of this was given to pregnant females at 7.5d.p.c. by gavage for a final dose of 20mgkg -1 as previously described . |
| 22 | This was given with frank envy . |
| 23 | And approval for this was given by this Committee last October . |
| 24 | This was undertaken by outside experts but generally , volunteer input has been the order of the day for most of the restoration works . |
| 25 | This was treated with sliding-scale insulin therapy . |
| 26 | This was treated in general terms in Chapter 1 and with specific regard to predation in Chapter 2 . |
| 27 | This was determined by automated analysis in the Department of Chemical Pathology using a SMAC machine . |
| 28 | This was followed on 13 July by another , similar in vein except that the demand was somewhat scaled down . |
| 29 | This was followed on 13 June 1992 by the following question and answer between Gill and the Foreign Secretary : . |
| 30 | On 2 January 1922 a decree issued by VTsIK ( the All-Union Central Executive Committee of the Communist Party ) arranged for the requisitioning of valuable articles from museums , and this was followed on 16 February by the more controversial decree on the seizure of Church treasures . |