Example sentences of "this [noun] was [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This support was to take two forms . |
| 2 | Our approach in this case was to select specific events concerning the elderly , for example , the implementation of the new post-war pensions , the publication of official reports and of widely noticed social surveys , across the twenty-year time-span , and to review their presentation by newspapers and more specialized publications . |
| 3 | This measure was used twelve times by Raymond Barre ( 1978 to 1981 ) ; ten times under Mauroy and Fabius ( 1981 to 1966 ) ; seven times in 1986 alone ( Chirac ) . |
| 4 | ‘ At the time this decision was made high energy physics took a major slice of government research budgets . |
| 5 | The purpose of this study was to investigate this aspect using simultaneous measurements of morphology , DNA ploidy , and autoradiography . |
| 6 | The GSH peroxidase actvity of this study was decreased six hours after indomethacin administration and its activity could not be recovered by the elimination of oxygen radicals . |
| 7 | This experiment was repeated several times and the average ratio of the subunits present in each band plotted ( Figure 2b ) . |
| 8 | This action was to cost young Joseph his life . |
| 9 | The purpose of the study described in this chapter was to use these tapes to explore drivers ’ memories for these situations when they were viewed under laboratory conditions . |
| 10 | The first solution to this dilemma was to harden existing Minuteman missile silos . |
| 11 | ‘ This torture was repeated three times a day … |
| 12 | This programme was recorded last Wednesday , April 1st , to be relayed today b . |
| 13 | I had someone come to see me the other week from the R S P C A because they said this cat was held forty foot in the air |
| 14 | This Act was enacted five years before the federal Act of that name and highlights the tendency for California to lead the way in pollution control legislation , with the federal government following in its footsteps . |
| 15 | The aim of this Act was to provide elementary schools throughout the country , filling the gaps in the existing provision established by the churches , private benefactors and guilds . |
| 16 | It was helped enormously by its expertise in financial services at a time when the demand for headhunting services in this sector was reaching unprecedented heights . |
| 17 | Larkin ( SDLP ) was runner-up only 124 votes behind Overend ( VUPP ) and this difference was covered 35 times by 4364 non-transferable votes over 2,000 of which originated with Republican Clubs . |
| 18 | When this process was repeated several times the particles of the starting material became so small that the total surface area available for reaction was very great . |
| 19 | Small children can sometimes be persuaded to eat cow cake in the same way that old people will eat cat food , but the chief result of all this farming was to produce huge food mountains which we could then refuse to give to the Third World , or to the socialists of Eastern Europe , in order to teach them the error of their ways . |
| 20 | An effect of this sort was reported some years ago by Grastyan ( 1961 ) , who monitored an electrophysiological correlate ( hippocampal slow waves ) of the overt OR during conditioning and found that the electrical response diminished as the CR emerged . |
| 21 | However this body was experiencing some role ambiguity and since it possessed no formal power to ensure that its professional judgement was heeded , it tended to define its function as advisory rather than inspectorial . |
| 22 | One aspect of the growth of the women 's movement in this period was increasing female agitation concerning the conditions of poorer women . |
| 23 | Each year there is an annual debate between the Treasury and the different government departments on the size of their budgets , but the aim of this meeting was to go one stage further . |
| 24 | This transformation was repeated several times and always produced a wild type phenotype . |
| 25 | The immediate impact of this event was to dissuade other prelates from publicly defending the king . |
| 26 | For 347 ( 87% ) this matching was done 3 years after surgery and for the remaining 53 it was 2 years after surgery . |
| 27 | This delay was to have tragic results . |
| 28 | At the same time as this service was held similar services were held in Holy Trinity Church , Leeds , and St Ann 's RC Church , Bradford . |
| 29 | The ‘ new and final solution ’ to this evil was to lay moral responsibility and obligation on men , every other method being ‘ fatally incomplete ’ . |
| 30 | This strategy was invented seven years ago as Mr Harrison , as he then was , saw Racal 's difficulties in competing with the defence industry giants even after the takeover of Decca . |