Example sentences of "this [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This sold 90,000 holidays in 1984 and claimed 45 per cent of the market . |
| 2 | In short , rapid population growth was a result of poverty and this asked fundamental questions about access and control over the means of production as well as the technical means by which they were developed . |
| 3 | When this became general knowledge later , there was general unease at this way of measuring the background ; the neutron flux 50 metres away from the cell measured for 50 hours could be very different than that at the cell site , even if the cell had been absent , measured for a different 50 hours . |
| 4 | When it became apparent that he must be dead , Casey gave orders to recover the body for proper burial ; this became another item in the wish-lists exchanged with the Iranians . |
| 5 | He forgot for a moment that it was pot and thought of nicotine , and then of cancer , cells in delirium , the inroads that living would make one day even on this varnished little icon of the exempt : the flab of tiredness , children , overwork , sitting up too late at night listening to people , indulging buoyant childish appetites as a device to sustain good nature against foreshadows of the senile self . |
| 6 | In 1990 there were probably around 12,000 CD-ROM drives sold in the U.K. This doubled last year and could rise to over 30,000 this year . |
| 7 | Furthermore , this presumed strong association between crime and social class has been the basis for most of the leading sociological theories of crime . |
| 8 | This led several members of the Congress to question the Assembly 's moral right to initiate political reforms . |
| 9 | This led some writers to suspect that the Third World , like the First World , was not of a piece , but that there might be substantial differences of kind as well as the obvious differences of degree between countries . |
| 10 | This led some people to maintain that he had derived the idea of civil disobedience from Thoreau , a fact which Gandhi himself denied.a In due course he substituted the phrase ‘ civil resistance ’ for ‘ civil disobedience ’ on the grounds that it conveyed the notion of non-violence better , but he continued to regard civil disobedience as a branch of satyāgraha . |
| 11 | This led some policemen to enjoy the sport which the court room offered ( Holdaway 1983 : 74 ) . |
| 12 | This housed oriental manuscripts , many of poetry , mysticism and jurisprudence , going back to the twelfth and thirteenth centuries . |
| 13 | This pooled concentrated urine was then centrifuged at 10000 g for five minutes and 1 ml of supernatant chromatographed on a Sephadex G-25 column ( 0.9×43 cm ) in TRIS buffered saline ( TBS ) containing 50 mM TRIS/HCl , 0.15 M NaCl , 3.1 mM NaN 3 at pH 7.3 at a flow rate of 39.5 ml/ hour and 1.056 ml fractions collected and assayed using the APGPR ELISA . |
| 14 | This produced complete deadlock in the conference , which now went to the highest governmental level , showing the importance attached to the matter by both the USA and the UK . |
| 15 | This produced six conventions , including the Inter-American Convention on Letters Rogatory signed in Panama on 30 January 1975 . |
| 16 | But when this produced little response , she brought the palm of her hand in short slaps on each side of the pale cheeks , and when Agnes gulped at the air , she cried at her , ‘ That 's it ! |
| 17 | Among other findings , this produced five cases of young leukaemia within eight miles of the plant over the period 1979–84 , where less than one would have been expected on the basis of national rates . |
| 18 | In his view , this produced better results because the companies wished to avoid their respectability being tarnished . |
| 19 | This produced differential status between older and younger sons and between sons and daughters . |
| 20 | This produced double sets of office-bearers in the same burgh , with the result that commissions were given to two different persons as commissioners for electing the burgess to represent the District in Parliament . |
| 21 | While this made eminent sense for production efficiency in wartime , it was very much apparent to the British that this would give the United States a natural advantage when the war ended . |
| 22 | This made short-term gilts an attractive buy ( before any interest rate cut ) , because of their fixed interest payments , so the price of these rose , driving down their yield . |
| 23 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 24 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 25 | As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name . |
| 26 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 27 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |
| 28 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 29 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 30 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |