Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [adj] [verb] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Central Bank of Kuwait 's statistical bulletin for October-December 1989 showed that government revenues had increased dramatically during 1989 . |
| 2 | A BTA ( Bulgarian news agency ) report cited in Le Monde of March 12 claimed that Patriarch Maxim had collaborated with the security services under the communist regime . |
| 3 | Central America Report of March 6 stated that opposition by ecological activists had resulted in parliament rejecting a 40-year exploration concession with the US transnational paper concern , Stone Container Corp . |
| 4 | A Le Monde report of Feb. 23 said that Amnesty had confirmed the detention without trial of a journalist , Salih al-Azzaz for having filmed a peaceful demonstration by Saudi women on Nov. 6 , 1990 . |
| 5 | He stacked the membership of GEN 29 to ensure that freedom of information did not get a look-in , despite a pledge in the October 1974 Labour manifesto to introduce an open-government statute . |
| 6 | The Financial Times of June 28 estimated that manufacturing output in eastern Germany had fallen by about two-thirds since the first half of 1990 . |
| 7 | Scrutiny of Table 7.1 reveals that hospital and maternity services account for the majority of funds . |
| 8 | The second row of Table 16–1 shows that government spending on transfer payments has also risen faster than national income . |
| 9 | Official figures released in March 1989 suggested that unemployment fell to 14.4 per cent in 1988 from 15.2 per cent in 1987 . |
| 10 | The overall picture in figure 11.12 suggests that life expectancy can be predicted pretty accurately from a country 's GNP : wealthy countries have healthier populations . |
| 11 | In practice this means that response times will become longer as demand increases , and they will also become more variable . |
| 12 | In practice this means that attention tends to be more on the output that on the input . |
| 13 | Our content analysis of national television news in Chapter 4 suggests that television news was biased both towards the government of the day ( through extra coverage of the government ) and towards right-wing political viewpoints ( through its emphasis on crime , defence , and security ) . |
| 14 | A 10-year study by the US National Acid Precipitation Assessment Programme published in mid-January 1991 concluded that acid rain had done far less damage to the nation 's lake and forests than had previously been thought . |
| 15 | Assessment of the first 150 cases after one year in April 1983 confirmed that tonsillectomy had no additional benefit compared with adenoidectomy alone . |
| 16 | The results in Table 3 show that shadowing of verbal material causes an extremely significant reduction in RFA for the trigram task . |
| 17 | Refugees interviewed in US-occupied southern Iraq on March 15 claimed that government forces were close to completing their takeover of Basra . |
| 18 | Wolfgang Schäuble , parliamentary leader of the Christian Democratic Union ( CDU ) , had on Aug. 31 suggested that financing for the east should be raised by the introduction of a compulsory 5 per cent interest-free investment bond , repayable after 1996 , ( i ) for those earning over DM5,000 per month gross who had not bought special eastern solidarity bonds ; or ( ii ) for businesses with more than 20 employees which had not invested in the east . |
| 19 | An SOC Defence Ministry communiqué issued on Aug. 23 claimed that opposition factions had launched 19 attacks against government positions in three provinces on Aug. 11-16 . |
| 20 | A report on Sept. 27 claimed that opposition forces launched three attacks in Battambang on Sept. 22-23 . |
| 21 | In response , the USSR Interior and Defence Ministries issued a joint statement on May 4 saying that responsibility for the latest violence lay solely with the Armenian leadership because of its support for paramilitary groups , and threatening to take " all necessary steps " to stop it . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the graph on page 44 shows that homelessness has become an ever-increasing feature of the Tory years , Homelessness began to hit home in a big way when the property-owning democracy started suffering at the hands of the repo-man . |
| 23 | The bodies and researchers which have considered the problem of access to lawyers all conclude that cost has a deterrent effect on seeking legal advice initially and then pursuing a claim . |
| 24 | It was interesting to hear Ludovic Kennedy on the relevant evening 's Any Questions ? on Radio 4 stating that angling is by far the cruellest of these activities . |
| 25 | The right-wing daily Nowy Swiat on April 9 claimed that contingency plans to introduce martial law in Poland in the case of a threat to security had been elaborated by the President 's staff . |