Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [prep] this was " in BNC.
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| 1 | We do n't know if it was the judge or just a passing joker who wrote the card ‘ the last person to look like this was shot ’ . |
| 2 | The corpus used for this was the three million sentence bilingual proceedings of the Canadian Hansard ( parliamentary proceedings ) . |
| 3 | The deadline set for this was 1990 , a simple majority vote of the borough council being sufficient to ensure separation ; neither parents nor governors were to be involved in the decision . |
| 4 | The next move was to bring forward the draft of the new constitution : the first that the Secretary of State knew of this was when he read a report in The Times ( 20 May ) headed ‘ A Republic of Burma ’ . |
| 5 | The only explanation given for this was that |
| 6 | The reason offered for this was that , by definition , a public place was one where the public were likely to be . |