Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A special analysis of this showed that a quarter of all people entering unemployment in May 1980 who had found a job within 10 months had taken one which they knew to be temporary . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Figures for the first half of 1990 showed that the trade gap had grown by 62 per cent to $1,870 million . |
| 9 | Bishops at the Synod of 1985 and Pope John Paul II himself in 1986 complained that the message has not yet been heard . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | A follow-up survey in 1978 indicated that the cause of migration was a lack of jobs which matched young people 's work and career aspirations . |
| 19 | The High Court in Edinburgh does not lay down sentencing guidelines , and in a case in 1987 ruled that the practice of giving a discount for a plea of guilty was objectionable , because it involved offering an accused person an inducement to plead guilty early , and disabled the judge from exercising his discretion fully and freely in any particular case . |
| 20 | The establishment of the Bank of England in 1694 meant that the government was now assured of loans at favourable rates , but always on a Parliamentary basis , since the Bank was forbidden to lend without Parliament 's approval . |
| 21 | However , an inquiry by the Agricultural Advisory Council in 1973 revealed that the use of artificial fertilizer and the deficiency of organic matter in light sandy soils increased the risk of wind erosion in parts of the Midlands and East Anglia . |
| 22 | A report in 1961 suggested that the administration send 6000–8000 troops to halt the Vietcong successes , but Kennedy rejected the advice , saying " It 's like taking a drink . |
| 23 | A survey in 1989 showed that the team knew of 350 local people with severe learning disabilities , of whom 217 lived with their families and 38 lived with single carers . |
| 24 | However , an important study , Local library co-operation published in 1974 found that the scope for savings through cooperative acquisition locally was very small . |
| 25 | A further survey of men in the Camberwell Reception Centre one night in 1965 found that a quarter of them had at one time been in mental hospitals and a further quarter were heavily dependent on alcohol . |
| 26 | A report from the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys in 1988 revealed that the number of disabled people in Britain stood at six million ; twice the number estimated in 1971 . |
| 27 | The Archbishop of Guatemala , Prospero Penados del Barrio , declared that the assassination of seven students by death squads in 1988 showed that the country was living by the ‘ law of the jungle ’ despite the supposed democratization of political life . |
| 28 | The theory of general relativity he formulated in 1915 predicted that the universe was expanding . |
| 29 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 30 | It is a tribute to all involved that the debate was conducted in an honest , open and disciplined way . |