Example sentences of "this [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 300 kg N , 80 kg P and 560 kg K were recovered per hectare per year by this method and most of this passed through the pigs and was used as fertilizer for the cropped fields . |
| 2 | With commendable promptitude Mr H Harris ordered a lorry to be requisitioned on the line , and this conveyed to the town - arriving two hours late - two male passengers , the mail , news parcels , and perishable goods . |
| 3 | If so , he will often need to know what action the local authority has taken before the matter came to court and whether this complied with the requirements of the Act . |
| 4 | This got over the critical problem of the ‘ double running ’ costs : the extra expenses of developing community services while having to support the infrastructure of the institution closing . |
| 5 | This got to the heart of the matter , the need to make reality out of pious hopes , and it recognized the propaganda value of a contest between a Labour candidate and a Unionist working man in a critical by-election . |
| 6 | This amounted to the most profound change in the constitutional and financial relationship between central and local government since local government was introduced in the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Turning right along the lane brought you to Southampton Road by Dairyhouse Bridge , another right turn and along the main road to another footpath opposite Waterloo Gardens — this led into the churchyard and so to home . |
| 8 | This led to the usual ‘ drinking bout … |
| 9 | I am sure that a considerable number of chemists — professionally recognised or otherwise — would be more encouraged to take up continuing education if this led to the award of a recognised National Vocational Qualification ( NVQ ) , or more appropriately a RSC certificate/diploma . |
| 10 | This led to the rapid growth of the private courier industry , with substantial benefits to business users . |
| 11 | instead the Church preferred to use the Annunciation for the first day of the year , and this led to the adoption of 25 March , nine months before Christmas , although this choice was by no means universal . |
| 12 | This led to the belief that Christ 's divine nature originated at his birth rather than at his baptism . |
| 13 | This led to the Committee 's visit in 1885 to Holroyd Smith 's full-size demonstration line at Manchester , and the signing of an agreement for his patents and professional services to be used in constructing an electric street tramway at Blackpool . |
| 14 | This led to the development officer having to assume such a role herself , and occasionally this involved her in more work than she felt she could easily provide . |
| 15 | This led to the decision to withdraw from IMF agreements in May 1987 . |
| 16 | This led to the evacuation of 250 000 people which , although staggered over several days , led to great pressure on transport arteries . |
| 17 | The division was about four men to one woman , and this led to the inevitable result , in those days before The Pill — a baby boom . |
| 18 | Yes again , and this led to the study of photosynthesis . |
| 19 | This led to the founding of the MIT Radiation Laboratory solely for magnetron and radar research , and to the employment of many American electronics companies in its manufacture . |
| 20 | All this led to the release of the first solo album … |
| 21 | This led to the collapse in many universities of not only traditional moral theories but also many of the great idealistic philosophies ( such as Kant 's , for example ) that had come out of the Enlightenment itself . |
| 22 | This led to the establishment of French language newspapers , edited by Frenchmen , which catered for a combined European and évolué readership . |
| 23 | This led to the need to bring together the different datasets using systems that can be established in the developing countries in which the information is required , and emphasis has been placed on putting together a portable package of processing , interpretation and display facilities . |
| 24 | The Boipatong massacre became the first major hurdle which rugby had to overcome and this led to the implementation of All Black and Wallaby tour conditions such a the minute 's silence prior to each test , the display of peace and democracy signed at match venues and in match programmes , the non-playing of national anthems and the removal of any official flying of the South African national flag . |
| 25 | This led to the usual talk of dismissing coach Luis Gradin , the man in charge throughout this period of successive defeats , but he will stay on at least until the end of the year when the present Argentine RU committee changes . |
| 26 | This led to the Little Vestry where she would hang up her coat and to the kitchen where she would wash out the vases and arrange the fresh flowers . |
| 27 | This led to the ‘ search ’ for documents which produced the forgeries . |
| 28 | This led to the establishment of after-school clubs for children of junior age , staffed by a team of teachers and parents and to the provision of an activities programme for under-tens in the summer holiday , organised through the Parent-Teacher Association . |
| 29 | This led to the second phase of the emergence of headhunting , in which management consultants , and with them accountancy firms , developed their own in-house headhunting functions . |
| 30 | This led to the typology set out in Figure 5.1 below . |