Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [verb] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sample surveys had shown that most people who go to the theatre tend to be middle-class and well-educated , but since so few people altogether actually go to the serious theatre there must be many middle-class , well-educated people who are not theatre-goers . |
| 2 | Mohamed Sahnoun , the UN Secretary-General 's special representative , was quoted on Sept. 4 as saying that the famine , in which relief agencies had estimated that 1,500,000 people faced death , was in fact far worse than had been realised . |
| 3 | A row of 43 found at Old Erringham ( Sussex ) was 1.5 m long ; experiments have shown that 0.5 m of warp thread would require 14 loom-weights ; 1.5 m would therefore require 42 . |
| 4 | These surveys tended to assume that certain species were typical of a particular habitat , although there were also studies of the changing proportions of species in differing locations . |
| 5 | Several writers have suggested that those people who most readily succumb are often rather introverted and socially inept individuals even before the compulsion takes over . |
| 6 | Several studies have shown that unskilled staff rapidly acquire the skill to insert the mask . |
| 7 | The Royal College of Physicians has estimated that 100,000 people in the UK are killed by smoking each year [ 7 ] . |
| 8 | A survey by German scientists has found that many fish in the North Sea suffer from tumours , bacterial ulcers and liver damage caused by pollution . |
| 9 | Councillors have revealed that 293 people in Hartlepool were found to be homeless and in priority need in the first three quarters of 1991/92 compared to 320 in the whole of the previous year . |
| 10 | Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax . |
| 11 | Checks carried out by the Inland Revenue on a sample of bank and building society accounts have revealed that some people have incorrectly registered to receive interest payments without deduction of income tax . |
| 12 | US researchers have found that healthy people exposed to ozone in laboratories for several hours lost 40 per cent of their lung power . |
| 13 | Some researchers have suggested that mature salmon return simply by following the trail left by the young smolts swimming towards the sea . |