Example sentences of "was [verb] this [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New journal : The Institute of Management , which was formed this week by the merger of two previous management bodies , has launched Professional Manager , a bi-monthly journal for its 75,000 members . |
| 2 | The need for low cost housing in East Cleveland generally was highlighted this week with the publication of the results of a housing needs survey . |
| 3 | The severity of the depression was highlighted this week by the decision of the Automobile Association to pull out of the retail package holiday market , creating 400 redundancies . |
| 4 | It was given this time under the English title of the music , Children 's Corner , and de Valois insisted on the ballet 's being redesigned . |
| 5 | She bought a secondhand car and was given this warranty with it . |
| 6 | NSS writer Saeeda Khanum was honoured this week in Britain 's top magazine journalism awards . |
| 7 | The next step was to relate this model to what was then happening in practice , ie before the Act took effect . |
| 8 | Later I was to find this sort of coincidence recurring . |
| 9 | Having spent almost all this money on adventurous travelling in South America , the United States , and Canada , he returned in 1908 and was rescued this time by his brother , who employed him as manager of his motor-car showroom in Brighton . |
| 10 | The normally grey and staid world of accountancy was enlivened this week by a certain skittishness on the part of Deloitte Haskins & Sells . |
| 11 | She was tackling this man on his own terms and at some time she would be doing it head-on . |
| 12 | ‘ There is an award sponsored by the European Commission for companies throughout the Community , which was won this year by Rank Xerox . |
| 13 | Kingsley Sam was driving this Scirocco to his girlfriend 's house in Cowley when he was ambushed . |
| 14 | The phone rang , was answered this time by Monica . |
| 15 | It was granted this power by Parliament in July 1988 , when the Education Reform Act was enacted . |
| 16 | Perhaps the young lady was confusing this church with another a little further up the hill , the Church of Ascensione a Chiara . |
| 17 | The sample in the photograph was made this way on the S47 ( 600 ) , machine . |
| 18 | Er , in his er , comment just now he er , referred to the enor , the enormous er , amount that it was costing this council to er , fund the special protection service . |
| 19 | But I mean , if it was costing this sort of money to clear the pipes and so forth out , what I fail to understand is if we 're having a full overhaul of the machine , why this was n't incorporated within it . |
| 20 | It was to resist this wave of caesarism that Jovellanos pressed for the summoning of a general Cortes which would represent the nation against the generals . |
| 21 | From the low admission rate , the nine hundred thousand in our revenue budget which was shown this year as savings , seven hundred thousand of which was met by fudging community care money in June is now short by three hundred thousand so at the end of this year there will be an overspend or rather a loss of income of three hundred thousand which will show up as a deficit on social services budget for this year . |
| 22 | When Anselm was shown this letter by the king 's messenger , he quietly suppressed the papal letters to the king and queen which had been entrusted to him . |
| 23 | Indeed it was to escape this commotion of the house that young Tennyson sought sanctuary and solitude in the surrounding countryside , where he could be at peace with all he beheld and find the inspiration for his poetic thoughts which he conveyed to us by his pen . |
| 24 | I WAS told this story of a young single mother , and I pass it on as an example of life in this grand country . |
| 25 | I was told this morning at work , so I do nt have exact details of where and when the games will be played . |
| 26 | He wrote that he was only slightly wounded in the left arm and leg , and was scribbling this note in case some officious nerk notified them . |
| 27 | The immediate temptation was to identify this region of the left hemisphere , now known as Broca 's area , as a speech centre , with the implication that this is all that is needed to generate speech . |
| 28 | My original thought was to submit this article for publication in the Shropshire Star on April Fools ' Day , the joke being that a railway to Clun was in fact planned , though on the 1st of April nobody would believe it ! |
| 29 | ‘ A Question of Sport ’ was born this year with Henry Cooper and Cliff Morgan as the captains . |
| 30 | I mean presumably you was born this side of the river ? |