Example sentences of "this was [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was contradicted by Zagreb radio , which claimed that the stone throwing was in self-defence after the police had attacked . |
| 2 | This was replaced by Alan Cull , our chief engineer , during the evening at Wick , and a short trial showed it to be satisfactory . |
| 3 | Even horse clippers were powered by this system , but this was replaced by mains electricity . |
| 4 | This was highlighted by Essex County Council 's Design guide for residential areas ( 1973 ) , with a format that was followed , if not exactly copied , by a host of other authorities throughout the country . |
| 5 | This was written in machine code . |
| 6 | Although the judgment of how well a film shows what normally happens at a junction was used differently in Study 3 and in Groeger and Chapman ( 1992 , in preparation a ) there was no evidence in either case that this was related to recognition sensitivity . |
| 7 | This was treated by emergency sclerotherapy , using a technique of both intra and paravariceal injections of 1% polidocanol . |
| 8 | Although this was commuted to house arrest , Galileo remained embittered in the belief that the other side of the bargain had not been kept . |
| 9 | The lower levels of these vast ‘ graveyards ’ built up into beds of limestone and colossal shifts in the earth 's structure meant that much of this was raised above sea level . |
| 10 | This was emphasised by Burger King 's policy of first name addressing which encourages equal-footed communication . |
| 11 | The government first claimed that its forces ( Forças Armadas Populares de Libertaçao de Angola — FAPLA ) had captured the town on Feb. 2 , after killing more than 500 UNITA guerrillas , but this was denied by UNITA leader Jonas Savimbi , who said that the town was firmly under UNITA control and alleged that Soviet and Cuban forces had been involved in the fighting . |
| 12 | Late in September , it claimed to have taken Ahwaz , but this was denied by Tehran radio . |
| 13 | There was a deep belief , even amongst many women , that biology had incapacitated them , and this was sustained by expert opinion . |
| 14 | This was done with government support , and our own King George III 's name appears on the decree establishing the school , in his capacity as King of Hanover . |
| 15 | That this was done despite government intrigue in Rome — Walsh 's nationalist sympathies being well known — was hailed as a triumph by Irish nationalists . |
| 16 | This was rejected by Agriculture Minister and Suffolk Coastal MP John Gummer but Mr Porter continued to question the Government on the flood defence programme . |
| 17 | This was achieved with Mouton Cadet — a vintage Bordeaux , which was more affordable than the Grand Crus and could therefore be enjoyed by more people . |
| 18 | This was checked by cDNA cloning and sequencing of the 3' end of the transcript , which showed that polyadenylation had occurred at the wild type beta-tubulin polyadenylation site ( position 1710 of the sequence in Kimmel et al ( 30 ) ; data not shown ) . |
| 19 | This was refused by Wyre Borough Council and a subsequent appeal to the D.O.E . |
| 20 | One option for holders , of course , was to leave the dollars on deposit with a US bank but this was discouraged by US banking regulations which prevented interest from being paid on deposits of less than thirty days and limited the rate payable on longer deposits to less than that obtaining elsewhere . |
| 21 | This was known as Chrism Fee , the Holy Chrism was the consecrated oil used in the rite of baptism and distributed at Easter to churches in the Bishopric of Rochester . |
| 22 | This was agreed by EC finance ministers on 23 November 1992 in Brussels . |
| 23 | This was performed by Archbishop Wulfstan of York , Lyfing of Canterbury having died on 12 June . |