Example sentences of "this was [vb pp] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quite clearly this was timed to capitalise on the public sympathy caused by the death of Freddie Mercury , singer with the pop group , Queen . |
| 2 | All this was destined to change in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance period . |
| 3 | This was kept locked from tenants who could n't have used it anyway owing to the condition of the two inside walls , which were crumbling alarmingly . |
| 4 | All this was intended to demonstrate to the king of France that these officials were not the king-duke 's accredited representatives , but merely the delegates of his seneschal . |
| 5 | This was intended to run for a term of 15 years , yielding a Royalty of one-twelfth during the first two years , and a tenth part thereafter , " … sufficiently washed cleansed and made merchanteable … |
| 6 | This was intended to run from 5 to 8 October , but whatever the purpose underlying the move , the respite for those at the battlefront was brief . |
| 7 | This was bound to happen by the law of supply and demand , with too many League clubs chasing too few good players . |
| 8 | This was thought to result from electromechanical disassociation of colonic smooth muscle . |
| 9 | For the cards this was expected to correlate with known area . |
| 10 | This was expected to rise to 450 by March , 1993 , under a package unveiled two years ago . |
| 11 | The peacetime strength of the army was 415,000 ; on mobilization this was expected to rise to 1,800,000 , but in fact it grew to nearly twice that number . |
| 12 | This was expected to provide for a President and National Assembly , to be elected for a five-year term under a multiparty system , with the President eligible for re-election once only . |
| 13 | In the 1988 Budget this was changed to apply to the residence only and not to the individual . |
| 14 | Although this was predicted to occur at some unspecified date in the future , belief in it was strengthened by the promise of a Messiah who would defeat Israel 's enemies and restore the nation to its former glory . |
| 15 | This was attributed to increase in mean parietal cell mass , a threefold increase in mean parietal cell volume accompanied by mitochondrial hypertrophy , and a pronounced increase in the secretory tubular apparatus of the parietal cells . |
| 16 | Though our early law knew a writ of conspiracy , this was restricted to abuse of legal procedure and the action on the case in the nature of conspiracy , which came into fashion in the reign of Elizabeth I , developed into the modern tort of malicious prosecution . |
| 17 | Five ml of H 2 O were added to the resin incubated mix , this was left to settle for 10 minutes , and 4 ml of supernatant was removed and examined for the presence of 1 4 C-citrulline by liquid scintillation counting . |