Example sentences of "of this [was/were] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The more conspicuous results of this were the Centre Pompidou and the Musée d'Orsay ; a law of 1978 earmarked FFr363 million over 1978–82 for the the latter out of a total FFr1.407 billion to all museums , representing a five-fold increase relative to the previous five years and 64% of the total budget for culture . |
| 2 | The three best known examples of this were the sacred bulls : Apis , herald of Ptah at Memphis ; Mnevis , herald of Re at Heliopolis ; and Buchis , herald of Monthu at Armant . |
| 3 | The symbols of this were the crushing of the demands for equal rights to enfranchisement for the working classes . |
| 4 | The immediate consequences of this were the disarming of eight battalions , some eight thousand men , and the subsequent arrest on charges of mutiny of between 50 to 60 of the leading mutineers . |
| 5 | The most immediate casualty of this were the talks aimed at sending a single Korean team to compete in the Asian Games in China in September . |
| 6 | The main manifestations of this were the insistence on education to doctorate level for recruits to the discipline , and the development of theoretical and methodological orthodoxies in teaching and in research . |
| 7 | One example of this were the experiments of Edward L. Thorndyke who put an animal , usually a cat , in a wooden puzzle box where it had to learn a response , e.g. stepping on a lever to unlock the door and get out . |
| 8 | A classic example of this was the debasement of the English silver coinage by Henry VIII to raise additional money for his treasury . |
| 9 | The most dramatic evidence of this was the ‘ Battle of Cable Street ’ on Sunday 4 October 1936 , when a march through the East End of London by the fascists prompted an anti-fascist demonstration , violence , and the injury of seventy people and eighty-eight arrests , eighty-three of whom were anti-fascists . |
| 10 | An example of this was the takeover by CGE through a subsidiary , Alcatel , of the European telecommunications side of ITT in 1986 . |
| 11 | At the heart of this was the question of radioactivity , its movement in the environment and the effect of its transmitted radiation on human and animal health . |
| 12 | A pleasing example of this was the ‘ evening gun ’ fired by British artillery with clockwork regularity at a certain part of the line . |
| 13 | An example of this was the transfer of local authority hospitals . |
| 14 | Another period of revival came in 1832 and one of the leaders of this was the Reverend Edward Hazleton , Superintendent of the Tandragee Circuit , of which Portadown was still a part . |
| 15 | To the left of this was the Headmaster 's room . |
| 16 | On The Poultry Cross side of this was The Westminster Bank , on the other facing the Market , Singer Sewing Machines , and on the same side facing Minster Street , The London and Counties Clothing Company , a rather high sounding name for a not very large Men 's Outfitters , owned and run by Mr. Selway who lived at the corner of Milford Hill/Rampart Road with his mother . |
| 17 | Some digestion was found on the bone from all the carnivore scat collections , and the most distinctive feature of this was the rounding of the broken ends of limb bones . |
| 18 | Thus Moabit 's work cost some 29 DM per square metre of street , but a third of this was the cost of the planting . |
| 19 | An example of this was the abuse which Harvey received when he demonstrated the system of blood circulation in the body because what he had discovered was not in accordance with what Galen had said . |
| 20 | The best example of this was the way in which she stung the Government into action to do something about AIDS . |
| 21 | Through the ports of Rye , Winchelsea and Shoreham the men of the Weald exported an increasing amount of timber , both as ‘ billets ’ of fuel and , in large oaks , for building ; one major ancillary of this was the ship-building industry which flourished in most of the county 's ports until the later fourteenth century . |
| 22 | The outstanding early example of this was the D.C.3 , later known as the Dakota , and this was followed by the Spitfire and by many of the famous aircraft of the last War . |
| 23 | One of the earliest and most famous discussions of this was the anthropologist Margaret Mead 's study Sex and Temperament . |
| 24 | One measure of this was the overwhelmingly rural-agrarian character of her economy and society . |
| 25 | Some of this was the product of the growing identification nationally of antislavery with political liberalism and thus fear , as in the case of Canterbury , of seeming to be ‘ acting from party feeling only ’ . |
| 26 | ( An example of this was the author 's uncle , S/L Charles Reif RAAF ( Retd ) , a graduate of 2 Flying Course , the second RAAF post-war aircrew course , who flew as a F/Sgt navigator/bomb-aimer with 1 Squadron in 1950 to 1952 . |
| 27 | First , firms economized through the joint production of evenings and weeklies : one sign of this was the closure of 79 printing centres by dailies and chains between 1961 and 1975 , leaving 126 in production . |
| 28 | None of this was the assertion of a separate nationality ; they were all subjects of the King of England , and relied on this for their safety , but this reassuring English presence only encouraged them to manage their own local affairs in smaller and smaller units . |
| 29 | One example of this was the frequent necessity to enter data on transactions twice because of the lack of integration of fundholding and clinical software systems . |
| 30 | Symbolic of this was the slow decline in the importance of marriage portions conferred by husbands on their new wives , and a correspondingly avid interest in the bride 's dowry . |