Example sentences of "[vb past] that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 2 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 3 | Tom proposed that two of these should be used as studs , or servers ; there were five women who were to be brood mares for the plantation . |
| 4 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 5 | The document proposed that three leading anti-apartheid campaigners — Matthew Goniwe , Mbulelo Goniwe and Fort Calata — should be " permanently removed from society as a matter of urgency " . |
| 6 | The BLDC political subcommittee ( composed of 10 Chinese and six Hong Kong representatives ) proposed that 30 per cent of the Hong Kong Legislative Council ( Legco ) would be directly elected in 1997 , rising to 40 per cent in 1999 and 50 per cent in 2003 [ for figures proposed under the second draft of the Basic Law published in February 1989 see p. 36763 ] . |
| 7 | If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities . |
| 8 | An analysis of cases in a trial of thrombolytic therapy in 1984–5 demonstrated that two thirds of the patients had coronary disease affecting only one of the three coronary vessels . |
| 9 | The incident of the Karin B , a ship carrying toxic wastes from Europe , illegally imported to Nigeria , which could not find a home and landed up on the south coast of England in the summer of 1987 , demonstrated that millions of tonnes of highly toxic waste are being shipped around the globe . |
| 10 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 11 | Also there is another letter ( Wordsworth Letters 1812–1820 ) when he mentioned that one of Green 's daughters taught art . |
| 12 | Now I mentioned that three and a half thousand trees were planted in the same area last year was n't it ? |
| 13 | Of those 271 firms which do provide assistance , Merrill Lynch found that 83 per cent pay for legal expenses and land charges/stamp duty . |
| 14 | The study found that 72 per cent of employers in the top size band saw qualifications as useful as against only 30 per cent in the smallest , where 49 per cent saw them as not useful compared with only 12 per cent in the largest ( see ibid. , Tables 46 , 48 and 50 ) . |
| 15 | The Brighton study also investigated the occupational status of 154 problem drug users ( 90 per cent opioid users ) , and found that 72 per cent of those available for work were unemployed , compared to 16 per cent in the total 17–35-year-old population . |
| 16 | It looked at 1,800 projects in 113 countries , for which the Bank had lent US$138,000 million , and found that 37.5 per cent of the projects were regarded as failures , compared to 15 per cent in 1981 and 30 per cent in 1989 . |
| 17 | A study at the Science policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex found that 37 per cent of innovations in mechanical engineering between 1969 and 1980 were made in firms with fewer than 1000 employees . |
| 18 | Allen ( 1983 ) found that 85 per cent of carers were women , predominantly daughters , followed by daughters-in-law , other female friends and neighbours . |
| 19 | This gloomy picture was confirmed by an Audit Commission report , published in 1986 , which found that 85 per cent of council houses needed repairs . |
| 20 | This found that 85 per cent of the babies in the trial , who were aged up to eight months , were soothed by the crackle of Egnell Ameda 's Babyshh , which sounds like an out-of-tune radio ( see Lulla-buys , our review of soothers in the January issue ) . |
| 21 | In the South Korean capital , Seoul , TRAFFIC found that 85 per cent of clinics were now selling rhino horn , compared to 51 per cent in 1987 . |
| 22 | In 1986 , according to Friends of the Earth , a survey of the homes clustered on the surrounding hills found that three-quarters of 800 residents were opposed to the Rechem plant . |
| 23 | The same survey found that three-quarters of the electorate felt that money and welfare should be more evenly distributed in Britain . |
| 24 | The main recommendations of the Royal Commission , which found that three-quarters of all clients had no complaints about their bills , was that more information in writing should be given to clients about the basis of charges at the time the solicitor is first instructed . |
| 25 | In a survey carried out at the end of October of a sample of 100 of The Times top 1000 companies , it found that 61 per cent of companies were experiencing worse bad debt problems . |
| 26 | The study found that 56 per cent of the jobs taken by the young people in fact had no formal educational requirements attached to them . |
| 27 | A new study by the Patented Medicine Prices Review Board ( PMPRB ) found that 56 per cent of the introductory prices of 124 new drugs in Canada were greater than the corresponding median international prices . |
| 28 | Milgram found that twenty-six of his forty volunteers — 65 per cent — were prepared to administer the maximum shock to a stranger in these circumstances . |
| 29 | A sample of the fishermen operating the 816 boats in the area found that 93 per cent used the type of gill-net which entangles vaquitas . |
| 30 | She found that 93 per cent of the first-born children showed an increase in naughtiness after the arrival of a new baby . |