Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] show that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Census of 1951 showed that many houses lacked amenities with which the council house since 1919 had been equipped . |
| 2 | Concerning the goods carried , records of the Ragusan Lazarette for 1626 show that 120 ships left the port , carrying insured cargoes of 400,000 kg of assorted wool and 70,000 kg of cattle and buffalo hides . |
| 3 | A count made in 1971 showed that one-parent families on supplementary benefit amounted to two-thirds of all the unmarried mothers , more than half the separated mothers , one-third of the divorced and one-fifth of the widows in this country . |
| 4 | Data from the Labour Force Survey in 1981 show that high proportions of both women and men who are divorced or separated live in the home of their own parents , although there are some differences related to both gender and social class ( as measured by housing tenure ) . |
| 5 | A sample survey carried out for the NCC in 1978 showed that most country-dwellers go to town or out-of-town shopping centres to buy things like furniture or clothes . |
| 6 | Some African coins used to be attributed to the Numidian King Jugurtha ( 118–105BC ) , but the discovery of a hoard at Enna in Sicily in 1966 showed that these coins were actually contemporary with the period of democracy at Syracuse in 214–212BC , and the coins could therefore be redated and attributed to the Carthaginian expedition against Sicily in 213–210 BC . |