Example sentences of "this was [verb] [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In time , each city constructed its necropolis ; but this was situated in the outskirts . |
| 2 | There was a lot of enjoyment to be had , but this was tempered by the anxieties and fears that many had felt during earlier stages , when girls were worrying about parents ' reactions , or trying to conceal the pregnancy . |
| 3 | This was based on the antics of a crew chief John C Ford — Jack to his friends — who had some knuckled dentistry and lost a tooth during a bar-room brawl en route to England . |
| 4 | This was endowed by the executors of the late John Benjamin Smith , Member of Parliament for Stockport between 1852 and 1874 , and is still awarded annually , though it is now merely a prize . |
| 5 | Some reports said that police fired on stone-throwing demonstrators with live ammunition and rubber bullets in Algiers on June 4 ; this was denied by the authorities , who said the police had been fired on . |
| 6 | Once it was mooted that there should be a study-period after school , but this was vetoed by the parents ' meeting which protested that it would interfere with after-school sports . |
| 7 | This was justified on the grounds that , since lifetime gifts were exempt from inheritance tax , there was no longer double capital taxation . |
| 8 | This was justified on the grounds that , having failed to get into grammar school , I would be educationally disadvantaged further by attending the local comprehensive . |
| 9 | This was felt by the Romantics to be too static , too absolute , too cut-and-dried , and to leave no place for the dynamics of discovery , the interplay of diversities , the movement from partial to fuller understanding , the connection between the inward and the outward , the whole and the part , the individual and the universal . |
| 10 | This was led through the streets in furrows so that each burger could have his turn at the stream to irrigate his garden , with its vegetables and flowers . |
| 11 | This was rejected on the grounds that there was nowhere else to put the rescued artifacts , many of which were designed for the house . |
| 12 | This was rejected on the grounds that such sinister tunnels would become lurking places for thieves . |
| 13 | This was attended by the Personnel Director and senior representatives from the various personnel branches . |
| 14 | This was attended by the daughters of the best society in Funchal until she closed it in 1892 . |
| 15 | But by the mid-nineteenth century the focus of interest in the treatises against masturbation was more clearly young people rather than adults , and there seems little doubt that this was connected with the redefinitions of adolescence . |
| 16 | And this was collected by the parishes , and we know that St Aldate 's had to pay £280 , which along with All Saints , the city church , was the highest amount from all the various parishes . |
| 17 | My original purpose in writing this was to warn of the dangers of censorship and to provoke debate in the lesbian and gay communities . |
| 18 | The most important point to note is that loyalty to such a family could survive its temporary political eclipse , and that this was rooted in the traditions of local society . |
| 19 | As you will see from the plaque on the wall , this was founded by the Italians as the Congregation of the Virgin in 1575 . |
| 20 | The company had special display boxes made which would take the complete range and this was distributed to the homes of leading food writers and journalists . |
| 21 | This was taken by the Londoners as a threat to extend the Marshal 's jurisdiction to the City itself , and intensified rumours that Gaunt was intent upon curtailing the City 's liberties and replacing the Lord Mayor with a captain appointed by the crown . |
| 22 | This was initiated by the practitioners of the so-called New Economic History . |
| 23 | The Secretary of State , Mr Brooke , maintains that this was approved by the museums . |
| 24 | All this was known to the auditors , they did n't spill the beans . |
| 25 | One aspect of this was to focus on the experiences of particular groups : the poor , women and ethnic minorities . |
| 26 | This was verified by the interviewees when they were asked how many of their close friends , of the same sex as themselves , used heroin during the prevalence study period . |
| 27 | This was reflected in the decisions of the courts , where slightly more than half of juveniles charges with indictable offences received a probation sentence in the 1930s . |
| 28 | This was reflected in the criteria which the Committee recommended should trigger a labelling declaration . |
| 29 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 30 | This was formalised in the Codes of Practice introduced in 1976 . |