Example sentences of "this was [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was supported by the correlation between the male 's condition at the start of the season and the number of days he spent incubating eggs . |
| 2 | Most Tories favoured the establishment of a regency , with Mary exercising the regal powers on James 's behalf , but this was defeated in the House of Lords on 29 January by the narrow vote of fifty-one to forty-eight . |
| 3 | All this was to feed into the stream of sexual radicalism in the early twentieth century . |
| 4 | In a parliamentary debate on Aug. 28 this was challenged by the opposition Union of Democratic Forces ( which like all major parties roundly condemned the attack ) , the UDF secretary Petur Beron hinting instead that the attack might have been instigated by communist provocateurs . |
| 5 | This was exemplified by the league of the Iroquois which Morgan had studied in detail . |
| 6 | There was a narrow foreshore at the foot of the little cliff and this was littered with the rubbish of the colony-sticks , droppings , feathers , a broken egg and a dead nestling or two . |
| 7 | This was repealed by the Theft Act 1978 , s.5(5) . |
| 8 | This was repeated throughout the night until 7am the next day . |
| 9 | This was repeated in the Court of Appeal decision , but was unanimously rejected by the House of Lords , in the next case . |
| 10 | An imposing entrance for this was built at the end of Kirby Road , and the inspection pits were only half the length of the depot to facilitate displays . |
| 11 | ( This was trumpeted under the holiday industry 's unofficial motto ‘ if you ca n't stand the heat , get off the beach ’ . ) |
| 12 | This was replaced in the fourth-century by a church built by Sant' Ambrogio and dedicated , at a later time , to St Tecla . |
| 13 | During the thirties ( presumably after the end of prohibition ) this was replaced by the can sealed by crimping and with the label printed directly on to the metal ( figure 7.3d ) . |
| 14 | All this was said in the context of that annual spring ritual , renewal of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) status under American law . |
| 15 | found shirtsleeve order the most comfortable dress for tropical campaigning ; and this was recognized before the end of 1898 by a concession allowing officers to attach the transverse shoulder straps from their blue coats directly to the blue shirt . |
| 16 | This was recognized by the City of London polytechnic Learning Resources Centre about five years ago , when virtually the same orientation content was presented in five different self-instructional modes ( video.tape , programmed instruction , tape-slide , audio-tape and chart ) . |
| 17 | This was personified by the ascendancy in the political sphere of Stanley Baldwin and the rise in the economic sphere of Montagu Norman , the Governor of the Bank of England . |
| 18 | This was announced in the Spring 1989 Spurgeon 's Record : ‘ A degree level course in evangelism , the first in the country , is to be launched at Spurgeon 's College next autumn . |
| 19 | This was to do with the difficulty of financing conferences of this type . |
| 20 | Thomas suspected this was caused by the fuel rods from the space station exploding on impact with the surface . |
| 21 | He said the only explanation of this was given by the boy to his five year old brother . |
| 22 | Unfortunately this was damaged on the way when they ran over a mine and had to be abandoned . |
| 23 | The re-development took place while retaining the original ( 1910 ) granite and Portland stone façade on Great Tower Street and this was replicated at the rear of the building and down the open side on Idol Lane . |
| 24 | Most of this was undertaken during the course of the Civil Justice Review , although the nature of the review excluded consideration of the possibility of a radical approach in the form of a new Small Claims Court . |
| 25 | The home ranked with the church as the place of religious allegiance , and this was symbolized at the beginning and end of the day by family prayers . |
| 26 | Most people had brought a packed lunch and this was eaten in the sun on Kidderminster Station platform . |
| 27 | This was indicated by the dispatch of British warships to the region , the construction of a major base on Diego Garcia , and the desire of the British cabinet ‘ to set up its own rapid deployment corps , which will be used to support the convenient regimes in that region and suppress the national liberation movements there ’ . |
| 28 | The end of this was indicated by the appearance of a table of numbers ; this was a record of the average response time for both Yes and No responses for all 6 memory set sizes . |
| 29 | This was answered by the production of full-length riot shields and , as the throwing intensified , mounted horses with baton-wielding riders were sent in . |
| 30 | This was demonstrated by the absence of any correlation between the severity of the gastritis or epithelial surface damage and the bacterial ammonia production . |