Example sentences of "this [adv] [vb past] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This presumably involved the slitting of rolled plates into bars , these being converted into nail-rods . |
| 2 | This eventually fostered the birth of Sussex gun-making but it meant an inevitable increase in local tension and a continued vulnerability to French attacks . |
| 3 | This effectively marked the end of William Whitelaw 's service as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and he was succeeded at the beginning of December by Francis Pym . |
| 4 | This effectively increased the share of central grants to about three-quarters of councils ' income . |
| 5 | ‘ Unfortunately for the constable ’ , we were told , ‘ this only had the effect of bringing reinforcements to the mob . ’ |
| 6 | But this only confirmed the importance of AFHQ 's view , reflecting that of Churchill , that nothing should be done to provoke the Yugoslavs or exacerbate the tense situation until all military preparations had been made for full-scale action if necessary . |
| 7 | However , the external airmail was good and this greatly helped the morale of the British personnel . |
| 8 | This greatly increased the size of Azhag 's army , for there are more Night Goblin tribes living in and around Red Eye Mountain than anywhere else in the Old World . |
| 9 | This usually took the form of institutionalized collective bargaining between trade unions and employers . |
| 10 | This once worked a number of mills , one of which was Rodmore Mill . |
| 11 | A great deal of effort was put into the collection of new data on the magnetic patterns of the ocean floors in the 1960s and this quickly demonstrated the correctness of the first two points : the strips certainly were parallel to the ridges , and symmetrical about them . |
| 12 | This formerly powered a number of mills , involved in some way with the cloth trade . |
| 13 | This also made the drilling of all component quick and accurate . |
| 14 | This also had the advantage of giving a signal to the money markets . |
| 15 | This also had the effect of keeping prices down , thereby benefiting the customer . |
| 16 | This also complicated the question of evidence as to when and how the land was polluted . |
| 17 | This clearly involved the construction of a new east-west road and at least one contemporary north-south cross-street , the provision of side drains within the defended area and the erection of at least one probable public building . |
| 18 | This later took the form of a public advertisement in which UUUC supporters were urged to distribute their first preferences evenly as between five candidates on a geographical basis according to the polling stations at which they voted . |
| 19 | This probably brought the injection of capital needed to establish extensive cabinet-making and marble-working workshops . |
| 20 | This radically affected the position of the writer , the scholar and the artist as producers . |
| 21 | Society might judge that this severely reduced the welfare of citizens in remote areas or that it promoted regional dissent which reduced the sense of national unity . |
| 22 | This inevitably meant the dispersal of production away from the more prosperous areas of the south and Midlands towards largely green-field sites in the Assisted Areas of the north and west of Britain . |
| 23 | This roughly doubled the number of known and treated hypertensives in the practice . |
| 24 | Across all this now fell the force of panslavism , a force hard to define , but increasingly expressing purely nationalist feeling , hostility towards Austria-Hungary and readiness to abandon the entente with Berlin . |
| 25 | This really meant the abandonment of the original reductive theory , since it could no longer be claimed that a non-observation statement was exactly equivalent in meaning to any collection of observation statements , however complex and conditional that collection might be . |
| 26 | Each guild was responsible for one pageant , and this often reflected the trade of its members , for example the shipwrights performed the building of the ark . |
| 27 | Many tutor-librarians were also required , as a condition of appointment to teacher-scales , to teach a minimum number of hours in the Liberal Studies programme , and this often included the teaching of subjects not essentially part of the librarian 's speciality . |
| 28 | This immediately raised the question of whether documentary realism is therefore inherently more political than fiction or avant-garde cinema — a useless question as it turned out . |
| 29 | This immediately limited the number of towns that could be planned , for most English towns have developed from villages , and their sites had been partly built on for centuries before they developed into towns . |
| 30 | From the darkness of the interior of this well came the smell of burned refuse and decaying meat and the stench of urine . |