Example sentences of "in [noun prp] showed that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While a recent survey in England showed that many youngsters found books ‘ boring ’ compared with space-age games , films and TV programmes , there has been no decrease in public-library borrowing by children in Belfast over the last five years . |
| 2 | The system of tripartisme ( three-party co-operation ) had survived the strains of devising a constitution and the elections to a National Assembly in November showed that stable government would continue to rely on the main parties working together : the Communists now had 29 per cent of the vote , the Christian Democrats 26 per cent and the Socialists 18 per cent . |
| 3 | One recent survey in London showed that rectal intercourse , or attempts at it , had occurred in 35 per cent of sexually active women attending a clinic , during the preceding 6 months . |
| 4 | An audit of prescribing of gentamicin in Leicester showed that this approach considerably increased the number of gentamicin concentration that were within the therapeutic range when measured after one to two days ' treatment . |
| 5 | An Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) report in June showed that nuclear power had provided 22 per cent of total electricity generation in OECD countries in 1989 . |