Example sentences of "this [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This behaved in the same way as the first unit , so I took this one back and got a third … |
| 2 | When this occurred in the first organisms on earth , evolution began , for such mistakes in copying are the source of variations from which natural selection can produce evolutionary change . |
| 3 | This occurred in the following instance : |
| 4 | This occurred in the old water authorities . |
| 5 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 6 | Yet on the other hand governments were quite willing to disregard clearly expressed public feeling when this seemed in the national interest . |
| 7 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 8 | This happened in the 7.5 magnitude quake at Niigata , Japan . |
| 9 | Already in the 1950s the core was losing heavily , and this worsened in the next decade . |
| 10 | In the case of one interactional variable , the agreement-marking " you know what I mean " , it seems fairly certain that this originated in the Caribbean community and has spread outwards to the wider community of LE speakers . |
| 11 | The procedures for legislation , for the scrutiny of expenditure and fur raising taxation have been described to show how this worked in the Victorian period . |
| 12 | The indigenous population , comprising Christian Armenians and Islamic tribesmen of mainly Central Asian , Turkish and Persian origin , were alternately subjected to periods of persecution and forced conversion ( or extermination ) , depending on whether Christian Russia or one of the Islamic countries was in control ; this culminated in the widespread slaughter and deportation of the Armenians by the Turks during the First World War . |
| 13 | We decided to accelerate the measures already under way to improve efficiency and reduce costs , and this resulted in the exceptional charges we took at the half-year . |
| 14 | This emerged in the practical group planning sessions , where more critical members joined diligently with others in working on the details of communicative teaching programmes . |
| 15 | His third publication was a proposal for a phonetic alphabet in which related sounds were denoted by related symbols ; this appeared in the Royal Society 's Philosophical Transactions ( 1686 ) . |
| 16 | One Tory JP saw this reflected in the gradual substitution of the old toast of ‘ Church and State ’ by the newer one of ‘ Ministers of all Denominations ’ , due he said , ‘ to the increasing importance of the Dissenting element ’ . |
| 17 | Further indications of the use of other material in C are the addition to the 1030 annal of the death of Earl Hakon , and the 1023 entry on Cnut 's reconciliation with Thorkell ; but maybe this stood in the common original and a precursor of D and E left it out . |
| 18 | After the murder of Gaveston the baronial opposition disintegrated and Edward was able to prepare for a campaign against the Scots , but when this ended in the humiliating defeat of his forces at Bannockburn in June 1314 the earl of Lancaster again united the hopes of the disillusioned baronage . |