Example sentences of "this [vb past] [adv] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the years between his father 's death and the outbreak of the First War , this became quite a grand establishment . |
| 2 | This laid down a future programme in which , among the many proposals , they called for Burma 's recognition within the family of nations and admission to the UN , and finally ‘ the establishment of a sovereign state in the very near future ’ . |
| 3 | This reinforced both a legalistic approach , conscious of conflicts of interest , and pessimism about the results of welfare-orientated admissions to care . |
| 4 | This opened up a four-shot lead but at the 5th Greg hit a bad second shot and chipped up , missed the putt and dropped back to three ahead . |
| 5 | For the first time this opened up an honest discussion of feelings , and started the process of constructing a new pattern of interaction . |
| 6 | This opened up an interesting line of enquiry . |
| 7 | This brought together a powerful nucleus of ‘ enlightened ’ bureaucrats and strengthened the position of like-minded officials working for reform through various ministries , notably that of justice . |
| 8 | ‘ This brought about an artificial market surge with the result that Britain faced boom or bust . |
| 9 | This went quite a long way towards soothing enraged newspapermen and the dinner terminated quite peacefully , although on its termination my drink stock was reduced by two whole bottles of whisky . |
| 10 | Now , after that , you was er taught all the parts of the waggons , and er this took quite a long while because we did n't know anything about them , and er where they all went and the parts they went . |
| 11 | This proved quite a successful theory for a number of years , in that it stimulated a lot of research and produced a corpus of compatible experimental results . |
| 12 | This set off a major rebellion in which Russian settlements were sacked with a death toll of over 2,500 . |
| 13 | This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals . |