Example sentences of "this [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This became the necessary London correspondent and support of the quite prosperous Taylors & Lloyds . |
| 2 | This became the Working Committee of the UGCC , but Nkrumah rapidly discovered that there was little else : there were only two branches , both inactive . |
| 3 | After his retirement this became the well-known pianoforte manufacturing firm of Collard & Collard . |
| 4 | The state of continual fear which Hobbes attributed to natural man outside society was , for Vico , a characteristic of emergent civilized man inside society , and this became the generative source for much of human culture . |
| 5 | This became the organizational , intellectual and social centre of the BUF . |
| 6 | After the war this became the British section of the Women 's International League for Peace and Freedom , a transnational organization which exists to this day . |
| 7 | This eclipsed the previous best sale achieved by the magazine with the Wales Centenary issue of October 1980 by some 23,000 . |
| 8 | The low-energy predictions of this theory have agreed remarkably well with observation , and this led the Swedish Academy in 1979 to award the Nobel Prize in physics to Salam , Weinberg , and Sheldon Glashow , who had also constructed similar unified theories . |
| 9 | This led the Chilean Communist party to lose substantial support by its opposition to the short-lived Socialist Republic declared by Colonel Marmaduke Grove in June 1932 . |
| 10 | The decision may certainly be said to be out of line with the recent trend , that a defendant should be judged on the facts as he believes them to be ; and this led the Criminal Law Revision Committee to recommend that the rules should be harmonized and that the prosecution should prove that the man realized that the girl was under 16 . |
| 11 | This led the Indian judge in the Tokyo tribunal to issue a detailed and lengthy dissenting judgment , in which he asserted that the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki was itself a war crime ( Pal , 1953 ) . |
| 12 | This produced the perfect job , and a metal copy was made down in the tool-room . |
| 13 | This produced the usual visual field asymmetry . |
| 14 | This produced the usual tangle of discrepancy . |
| 15 | This produced the land-cover classification shown for a part of the area in Fig. 5.2 . |
| 16 | Bevin and the Foreign Office were on occasion more sensitive to this issue — but in Bevin 's case this produced the bizarre proposal to hang on in the Middle East from a base in inhospitable ( but British ) territory 2,000 miles from the Suez Canal , Even Bullock is forced to concede that Bevin was ‘ obsessed ’ with the Middle East , an obsession he never seems to have lost . |
| 17 | This made the total cost of erecting the lift to be an estimated £27,000 . |
| 18 | All of this made the rural village an extremely close-knit society . |
| 19 | This made the local mob angry . |
| 20 | This avoided the usual data capture problems , and although the amount of data was less than ideal ( ie there were no job titles , qualifications , addresses etc ) the accuracy was likely to be of a high order . |
| 21 | This amused the Prime Minister . |
| 22 | This depicted the man-bull Eabani , seizing an ibex by the horn with one hand and flanked on the other by crossed rampant beasts , as well as a goddess wearing a Sumerian skirt . |
| 23 | This limited the economic incentives they were prepared to provide . |
| 24 | This drew the immediate and sincere response ( and it should be noted that the South African Rugby Football union comments published in New Zealand have not attempted to side-step the issue ) from Dr Danie Craven that every player who opposed the All Blacks in their five matches in the republic would be cleared of drugs use . |
| 25 | The forces of law and order were not constitutionally apparent , the apparatus of state power was hidden from view , and this provided the Revolutionary Command Council with an unregulated instrument of policy . |
| 26 | Although no energy was produced this demonstrated the technical possibility of the process and a serious commercial reactor is envisaged by 2020 . |
| 27 | This demonstrated the disturbed state of Russian industrial relations as the proletariat remained outside society — ; deprived of any stake in the existing order . |
| 28 | This demonstrated the uneasy nature of American policy from 1948 to 1950 — clear that south Korea was not essential to American strategy against the Soviet Union but equally unable to accept that south Korea might go communist . |
| 29 | In the same year , the Rumpers passed an Act for the Relief of Religious and Peaceable People ; this retained the legal requirement on the laity to take part in some form of Sunday worship , but released them from their obligation to attend the local parish church . |
| 30 | This changed the entire tactical situation , for Scheer , steaming toward the scene , had no option but to go to Hipper 's assistance . |