Example sentences of "this [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | ‘ This seemed just the movement ’ , he wrote in a letter , ‘ to give scope for all my enthusiasms and even hobby-horses . ’ |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | This showed where the money was and where economic development was occurring . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This broke up the conference . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Then came the advent of the digital computer and this brought about the concept of setting type by using light — phototypesetting . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And then this went down the barrel and you know , hit whatever it wanted to hit and each shot cost a thousand pounds ! |
| 15 | This precipitated out the dextran which was spun down at 3500 rpm at 4°C for 10 minutes . |
| 16 | It came to him that he could lock the door , there was a bolt on it , but this conjured up the vision of her battering on it , for she certainly would n't be deterred by the fact that she was raising the house ; she would know that Mary was the only one in it at the moment . |
| 17 | This summed up the view of many : in previous decades intellectuals were frequently punished for being politically ‘ reactionary ’ , i.e. rightists . |
| 18 | This set up the General Teaching Council for Scotland to deal with the training , registration and professional conduct of Scottish teachers . |
| 19 | This work has had me taking this set off the shelf again and again . |
| 20 | This remained substantially the case despite an increasing monetization and diversification of the economy . |