Example sentences of "[verb] that [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , analyses of the 1984–6 Labour Force Survey suggest that over a quarter of married and cohabiting Afro-Caribbean women ( and Afro-Caribbean men ) aged under 30 had white partners ( CSO , 1988 ) . |
| 2 | Lawyers say that quite a lot of Jason 's £35,000 will go in George 's fees . |
| 3 | Imaz found that about a quarter of the Argentine industrial elite , at a time when industrialisation was getting well under way , were self-made men from neither middle- nor upper-class backgrounds ( Imaz 1964 ) . |
| 4 | When Peter Townsend and his army of researchers monitored low incomes in the sixties and seventies for their massive study , Poverty in the United Kingdom ( Penguin , 1982 ) , they found that about a quarter of the unemployed were drawing supplementary benefit . |
| 5 | The report , Cracking the Codex , found that about a quarter of the members of the committees that agree codex standards come from the industry , with only a handful of consumer groups represented . |
| 6 | Bradshaw and Millar found that only a quarter of lone mothers on income support said they were managing all right financially and 52 per cent said they ‘ almost always ’ worried about money . |
| 7 | Although it is a great advantage to be just inside your weight category , some contestants forget that even a glass of water can tip them over . |
| 8 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 9 | And bosses revealed that only a deal with Taiwan had prevented the number of job losses being DOUBLED.The shock move means BAe 's factory in Hatfield will shut by the end of next year . |
| 10 | Newman and his original associates ( all white and mostly women ) were hard-liners who argued that only a revolution of the working class could resolve the individual psychic crisis . |
| 11 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 12 | One would feel happier about the anthropic principle , at least in its weak version , if one could show that quite a number of different initial configurations for the universe would have evolved to produce a universe like the one we observe . |
| 13 | Our survey panel shows that about a quarter of the electorate thought BBC-TV news was biased in its treatment of the Conservative government , though rather less felt it was biased in its treatment of other parties . |
| 14 | The report shows that almost a quarter of land protected as Sites of Special Scientific Interest ( SSSI ) , home to much of the country 's wildlife , are suffering acidification damage . |
| 15 | Erm , it 's been an important year for us , and I think that , you may recall that last year we talked a bit about the Nathan report , and er , if you look at the Directors er , report , you will see that quite a lot of the work that we talked about and was in the Nathan report , is now under way , and I think it 's very important . |
| 16 | In Somerset a jury declared that only a corner of north-west Somerset ought to remain within Exmoor Forest : another Somerset jury made the startling statement that King John had afforested all England ! |
| 17 | We were then told that only a handful of high-spending authorities would be capped . |
| 18 | Both showed Mr. Mates well ahead of his main challenger with Labour in a clear third but they also showed that over a quarter of the electorate were undecided . |
| 19 | Concern exists that once a threshold of a certain concentration of chlorine in the Arctic stratosphere has been passed , a large Arctic ozone hole will become a regular spring feature which will grow and deepen annually to affect the highly populated regions of northern Europe . |
| 20 | But he added : ‘ I suspect that quite a lot of British MPs … will decide that power is now moving towards an enhanced European Parliament . ’ |
| 21 | When we question the actual extent of lifetime employment it is not surprising to find that a fluid labour market requires that only a quarter of employees can expect such guarantees . |
| 22 | At the other end of the scale , none of the small libraries indicated that over a quarter of any individual 's time was devoted to training , although there was an overlap between small and medium sized libraries in other categories . |
| 23 | Mortality data indicate that only a minority of such deaths occur in ‘ the executive male ’ . |
| 24 | Although the finding of a colorectal stricture in ulcerative colitis very appropriately raised concerns of cancer , all studies including our own indicate that only a minority of these strictures are in fact malignant . |
| 25 | It is well known that only a minority of alcoholics are afflicted with clinical pancreatitis and the issue of individual susceptibility to alcoholic pancreatitis has recently been reviewed . |
| 26 | It was less crowded at the rear of the room and he thought of pausing there , where he could watch la Principessa and still draw a breath of air that was not perfumed half to death , but then he patted the slender cigar in the breast pocket of the dinner-jacket that had been hand-tailored to fit his sinew-hardened body and decided that only a whiff of tobacco would fully cleanse his nostrils of the mix of scents that hung in the over-heated room . |
| 27 | Maccoby and Jacklin , authors of the standard review of psychological sex differences , note that even a study like their own , which finds mostly similarities , turns inexorably into a trait psychology ( 1974 : 3ff ) , centred on masculinity and femininity , and the differences between them . |
| 28 | Most Right-to-Lifers believe that only a threat to the life of the mother is sufficient justification and that most women seek abortions for essentially ‘ trivial ’ reasons . |
| 29 | The aggrieved Main , in short , sought either an appointment as tidesman in a particular port , which would carry a regular salary , or failing that even a restoration to his former post of watchman , and naturally he attempted to secure his livelihood through his political friends , the Cunninghams . |
| 30 | In one small group Mrs M finds that alcohol helps her forget the noises and is in real danger of ‘ taking to the bottle ’ , whereas Mrs N finds that even a thimbleful of alcohol increases the head noises dramatically . |