Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.

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1 He says research has shown that many people would be incapable of driving safely over long distances in the early afternoon even after one drink .
2 Research has shown that older people with appreciable or severe disablement form a significantly higher proportion of those living in poverty or on its margins than older people with no disabilities .
3 However , research has shown that older people have less absenteeism , more job stability , and greater output than younger workers .
4 The Environment Secretary , Michael Heseltine , said that research had shown that many people did not make a connection between environmental problems in general and their own wasteful use of energy at home .
5 Imagine his surprise when reading the article on the Benson Bf 109G in your July issue to find that this aircraft was in fact one of ‘ his ’ !
6 Further work began to suggest that palaeomagnetic data supported the model of continental drift proposed by Wegener although there were initial uncertainties over the accuracy of the technique .
7 Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers .
8 Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised .
9 A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 .
10 These surveys tended to assume that certain species were typical of a particular habitat , although there were also studies of the changing proportions of species in differing locations .
11 Research studies in the US and the UK have found that young people are drinking no more than they were 20 years ago and that the vast majority drink sensibly .
12 Several writers have suggested that those people who most readily succumb are often rather introverted and socially inept individuals even before the compulsion takes over .
13 Several studies have shown that unskilled staff rapidly acquire the skill to insert the mask .
14 A major customer did er a bench mark recognizing that sixty percent of any project cost was taken up by maintenance of the code after it went live .
15 To keep a large staff informed requires that senior staff are used by the head to spread information , to note reaction and to ensure feedback .
16 The Government has announced that seventy-four people infected with HIV through blood transfusions are to receive payments of up to eighty-thousand pounds each .
17 Like Bentham 's own reasons for designing the Panopticon , the Government has suggested that managerial staff should install microelectronics technology on their premises for financial reasons , in the pursuit of profit or to safeguard continued economic viability , rather than out of a perceived need to save energy per se .
18 The Royal College of Physicians has estimated that 100,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking each year [ 7 ] .
19 A survey by German scientists has found that many fish in the North Sea suffer from tumours , bacterial ulcers and liver damage caused by pollution .
20 A research study at the University of Birmingham has shown that elderly people attending craft and dance classes were less stiff and prone to painful joints .
21 The whole notion of bed blocking seems to imply that older people enter hospital and then wilfully continue to occupy a bed which , in the views of staff , they no longer require .
22 Councillors have revealed that 293 people in Hartlepool were found to be homeless and in priority need in the first three quarters of 1991/92 compared to 320 in the whole of the previous year .
23 Neutron activation analysis has shown that this series of pieces was made at Castilli in southern Italy .
24 Surveys in various parts of the world have revealed that many species of fungi , including mushrooms , are dying out , possibly as a result of acid pollution .
25 The Guardian of May 13 reported that the country 's health directorate had confirmed that 951 people had died from diarrhoea in the previous two weeks , mostly in cyclone-affected areas .
26 A recent American survey has shown that most people travel to escape from something .
27 Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax .
28 Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax .
29 Leaked preliminary results from a study by the department of environmental and occupational medicine at Newcastle University have suggested that organophosphorous sheep dips may affect those regularly involved in sheep dipping .
30 US researchers have found that healthy people exposed to ozone in laboratories for several hours lost 40 per cent of their lung power .
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