Example sentences of "[prep] [num] [verb] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A leader comment in the Observer newspaper of 1934 acknowledged that a revolution in travel was underway : |
| 2 | Work went on over the Summer Holiday of 1980 to ensure that the Convent buildings would be ready for the new term , when there would be girls in both the Sixth Form and the First Form . |
| 3 | In Mainz an ordinance of 1788 announced that the elector would give general audiences every Monday at precisely 4 o'clock in the afternoon : at these every inhabitant of the electorate was entitled to attend and present in person any grievance he might have . |
| 4 | Biologists with the Cambridge University Loch Ness Expedition of 1962 found that the mud of the deep water contains few gas-producing bacteria , and resists all attempts to provoke gas by such means . |
| 5 | This is on an increasing scale of 1 to 5 where a rating of 3 signifies that the majority of the research is of national significance . |
| 6 | I remind her that the Labour Government 's White Paper of 1977 said that the upsurge in the subsidy in the early years of that decade had been accompanied by sharp cuts in investment . |
| 7 | Hair apparently benefited : of the 120 volunteers a total of 37 stated that the condition of their hair had actually improved whilst almost all the remainder reported no deterioration whatsoever . |
| 8 | In ( 38 ) below one understands that the support of the finite verb carried out his helping at the same time as the support of the infinitive was addressing the letters , whence the meaning of being instrumental in the realization of this action . |
| 9 | In the parish of Norton-by-Twycross , on the borders of Warwickshire and Leicestershire , the award of 1748 specifies that the road to London , which is here the main road between Burton-on-Trent and Atherstone , should be not less than thirty-three yards wide . |
| 10 | So a futures price of 1825.0 implies that the index is being traded at 1825.0 and the value of the contract is 45,625 ( i.e. 1825.0 ×25 per index point ) . |
| 11 | The experiments of Dr O'Shaughnessy and others during the cholera of 1831–2 show that the amount of water in the blood was very much diminished in proportion to the solid constituents , as also were the salts Well , the basis of my treatment of cholera is quite simply to try to restore the fluid and salts which have been lost from the blood , by injecting solutions of carbonate of soda or phosphate of soda into the blood vessels . |
| 12 | However , the appearance in 1789 of a second edition with an extra plate , and of six plates signed ‘ Hepplewhite ’ or ‘ Heppelwhite ’ dated October , November , and December 1792 , and May 1793 , in The Cabinet-Makers ' London Book of Prices of 1793 suggests that the firm designed after his death . |
| 13 | There is in my opinion nothing whatever in section 61(1) of the Act of 1967 to suggest that the Secretary of State is bound by the advice of the Lord Chief Justice or the trial judge . |
| 14 | The close attention which the union committee gave to every case of a girl being hired in the winter and spring months of 1910 argues that the recruitment had slowed to a trickle , as is borne out by an analysis by age of the sample in Chapter 6 : whereas large numbers of the women would have been 14-year-olds in 1908–9 , hardly any were younger than this . |
| 15 | Official statistics for the first nine months of 1990 suggested that the growth in real GDP fell to 2.8 per cent compared with 5.6 per cent in the comparable period of 1989 . |
| 16 | Figures for the first half of 1990 showed that the trade gap had grown by 62 per cent to $1,870 million . |
| 17 | After a letter to the Home Secretary in 1934 complaining that the IFL speakers had stated at these meetings that they would clear all Jews out of the country , and if this was not possible they would starve them and murder them , Special Branch reported that a Mr Pipkin and a Mr Smith of the IFL , both about twenty-one years of age , had made reckless and rash statements at such occasions . |
| 18 | The main provision of the most recent guidelines issued in 1986 provides that the prohibition in Article 85(1) will not apply to agreements where the parties together do not enjoy more than 5 per cent of the total market for the goods or services in the area of the common market affected by their agreement and the parties do not have a combined annual turnover exceeding 200,000,000 ECU ( approximately £140-150m ) . |
| 19 | Bishops at the Synod of 1985 and Pope John Paul II himself in 1986 complained that the message has not yet been heard . |
| 20 | Accounts published during the bankruptcy proceedings in 1935 suggested that the subscription income had been £6,848 in 1925 , £604 in 1928 and afterwards less than £400 a year . |
| 21 | The British government in 1980 felt that the problem of social security fraud was large enough to justify introducing 1,000 new inspectors ; yet it is hard to see how this problem exceeds that of the health , safety , and welfare of the workforce for whom there are only 900 inspectors . |
| 22 | The original legislation passed in 1985 stipulated that the deficit must be reduced to $36bn in the 1990 fiscal year which began on 1 October . |
| 23 | But he added : ‘ It did n't require a great deal of insight in 1985 to appreciate that the business of Barlow Clowes was not at that time being run in a fashion which made it an obvious candidate for a licence . ’ |
| 24 | The German state prosecutor 's office announced on April 8 that tests conducted on the bones of a man who died in Brazil in 1979 confirmed that the body ( discovered in 1985 — see p. 33759 ) was that of Josef Mengele , the so-called " Angel of Death " held responsible for the deaths of 400,000 prisoners at the Auschwitz concentration camp during the Second World War . |
| 25 | The fact that his choices have been criticised in their communities for collaborating with apartheid ever since Indians and coloureds — but not blacks — were given their own chambers in 1984 suggests that the president had difficulty finding anyone willing to join a government nearing the end of its life . |
| 26 | However , Professor John Gunn , who chaired the working party which recommended the construction of Nina in 1960 said that the delay was inevitable because of the financial constraints at the time . |
| 27 | Certainly , returning soldiers gave the authorities in England many a headache , the country 's justices being ordered in 1360 to see that the peace was not broken . |
| 28 | In the case of Kenya , Kenyatta 's age of almost seventy at the time of independence in 1964 meant that the succession issue was alive from the start . |
| 29 | A report by the Schools ' HM Inspectorate early in 1981 indicated that the effect of cuts in education budgets was severe despite falling pupil rolls . |
| 30 | Another case in 1883 revealed that a marque of Veuve Clicquot-Ponsardine was being sold , but with the insertion of an extra ‘ o ’ in the label , reading ‘ Veuve Cliocquot-Ponsardin' and going for a ridiculously low price . |