Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] [vb pp] that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Anne Kussmaul has estimated that between the fifteenth and the nineteenth centuries about 60 per cent of the population aged between 15 and 24 were farm servants and that between a third and a half of the country 's hired labour force was supplied in this way . |
| 2 | The party leadership in Scotland has dismissed that on the grounds that those MPs who are associated with Scotland United represent constituencies where action against the carrying of knives would have the greatest effect . |
| 3 | Professor Crafts has shown that in the Midlands , far from retaining labour , recently enclosed parishes experienced considerable out-migration . |
| 4 | Using the most fundamental measure of poverty , the " breadline " , Professor Hay has estimated that over the years 1760 to 1802 in a normal year around 10 per cent of Staffordshire families would have been unable to buy sufficient bread over the year even if they had spent their whole earnings on it . |
| 5 | In Pit-Men , Preachers and Politics ( 1974 ) Professor Robert Moore has noted that in the Deerness Valley east of Durham City many old mining families recall the time when their ancestors had rural occupations . |
| 6 | Myers has estimated that by the end of the century , at present rates , there will be only two relict blocks : western Brazilian Amazonia and Zaire , with smaller ones in New Guinea and the Guyana Shield of South America , but that these are unlikely to last beyond 2050 because of cultivation as , for example , the population in Rondonia in south Brazilian Amazonia increased from 1100 in 1975 to well over a million by 1986 , with an increase in cultivation from 1250km 2 to 10000 in 1982 and 17000 in 1986 . |
| 7 | Meadows has stated that in the 19th century , local geological studies represented worthwhile research in their own right ; but in the 20th century , local studies have increasingly become acceptable to professionals only if they incorporate , and reflect on , the wider geological picture . |
| 8 | Our work in Ladywood in Birmingham has shown that in the acute care of severely mentally ill people through home treatment , hospital admission can be avoided in four out of five cases . |
| 9 | Foster has concluded that by the second decade of the nineteenth century , the well-organised mule spinners had " fought themselves " to near parity with London 's building craftsmen . |
| 10 | Research at the IMechE has shown that in the UK over 75% of the benefits of tribology are as yet unrealised . |
| 11 | The test car I drove had a serious wind noise problem , which will not be the first time Ford has heard that about the Escort , but it otherwise came across as well conceived — it 's easy to load and has a completely flat floor with rear seats folded — and competent . |
| 12 | On the evidence of church court depositions , Professor Clark has suggested that in the early eighteenth century six out of ten males moved at least once in their lives . |