Example sentences of "[det] [vb past] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became both the cornerstone of future government policy and the unquestioned assumption of subsequent government reports , including the Barlow Report in 1940 which made the strongest and most comprehensive case for regional development . |
| 2 | This became increasingly the case under the centralising regimes of Maria Theresa and Joseph II in the second half of the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | Elsewhere , the White armies offered the subordinate peoples of the old empire only the same as before , and this made even the Bolsheviks seem acceptable . |
| 4 | This statement paved the way for and was indeed reiterated in Roberts in which the Court of Appeal held that consent had on the facts been terminated where there was a formal deed of separation , even though this lacked both a non-cohabitation and a non-molestation clause . |
| 5 | So you know to check it and go back and do it differently and it 's the same with this moved up a level now , that you you keep in keep in charge of it . |
| 6 | ‘ This seemed just the movement ’ , he wrote in a letter , ‘ to give scope for all my enthusiasms and even hobby-horses . ’ |
| 7 | This seemed clearly a case of the patient needing the medicine more frequently so I suggested she take it at least 4 times daily . |
| 8 | This told how the poet , having taken opium , dreamt backwards through time to seek his love in a ballroom , on his way to a medieval scaffold , at a well in ancient Greece and finally at a Witches ’ Sabbath , where her kiss ended in death ( see page 56 ) . |
| 9 | At times this caused quite a scuffle , especially when we tried to insist on lumping several together and pretending that the result was a nation , albeit a federal one — rather in the same way as the parliamentary managers of the eighteenth century used to bribe Scottish peers by the batch , half a dozen or a dozen at a time . |
| 10 | This opened up the prospect of democracy being installed not by a bourgeois government but by ‘ a revolutionary democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and peasantry ’ . |
| 11 | The former England centre half turned out a record 629 league games for Don Revie 's brilliant Leeds side — and now masterminds the campaigns of the Republic of Ireland . |
| 12 | This showed where the money was and where economic development was occurring . |
| 13 | This expressed precisely the interests of the peasantry . |
| 14 | Thessy arrived first , tired after an uncomfortable night on the ferry , and five minutes later Bellybutton half danced and half shuffled down the pontoon with a can of paint and a pocketful of rags and brushes . |
| 15 | This covered up the shoes completely , but left the border areas open to work on . |
| 16 | There was no alternative to capitalism as a method of economic development , and at this period this implied both the realisation of the economic and institutional programme of the liberal bourgeoisie ( with local variations ) , and the crucial position in the state of that bourgeoisie itself . |
| 17 | In his letter of Aug. 14 Saddam had underlined his determination " not to keep any of Iraq 's potential outside the arena of the great duel " and it was widely believed that this implied either an intention to consolidate Iraqi gains in Kuwait or launch an attack against Saudi Arabia . |
| 18 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 19 | Side by side with this grew up a number of smaller specialised departments — a bureau des fonds which dealt with the ministry 's own internal finances , the surveillance of foreigners in France , questions of diplomatic privilege and a wide variety of other relatively minor issues ; a bureau des interprètes which took shape in the 1750s and 1760s and was given definitive form in 1768 ; a department concerned with codes and cyphers ; and a geographical one which by the 1780s had a remarkable collection of about 10,000 maps . |
| 20 | ‘ He had long been in a bad state of health , which he took no care to repair but on the contrary lived in such a manner as greatly promoted the disorders he had had long upon him , this brought on the Flux which put a period to his life ’ ( Cook ) . |
| 21 | The nervous tension of dodging and ducking about a sky crowded with equally dodging and ducking planes , some firing , some looking as if they might fire at any instant , some sheering wildly away to avoid a collision ; and all the time trying to grab a quick shot at a mere point of light : all this brought back the strain of combat , when you were pressed on by the excitement of chasing the enemy , pulled back by the horror of shooting a friend , and periodically shaken with fright by the thought that at any second you might be cut in two . |
| 22 | One immediate response to the CEGB 's announcement was the formation of the Alliance Against Hinkley C. This brought together a mixture of Friends of the Earth supporters from Bristol — only some twenty-five miles north of Hinkley — and others who had been active in the Somerset anti-waste-dumping campaign of the 1970s . |
| 23 | This brought together a number of the main themes of the New Deal its interest in social and economic planning and in scientific farming and conservation , its campaign for the provision of electrical power in the rural areas , and its concern with the revival of depressed communities . |
| 24 | With Britain a nation of mortgage-holders who operated in an economy based in large measure on the credit system , this brought home the immediacy of the government 's difficulties with the economy to almost every householder in the land . |
| 25 | The local newspaper , the Mid-Ocean Times , printed a short story about the arrival of Canada 's first ‘ radio columnist ’ and this brought about a radio interview at ZBM , Radio Bermuda . |
| 26 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |
| 27 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 28 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 29 | All this took barely a year ( and around £500 of plants ) to establish mainly , says Hainge , because he grew only plants which suited their soil and conditions . |
| 30 | This precipitated out the dextran which was spun down at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |