Example sentences of "[num] [noun sg] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our main 1979 survey suggested that weekly-collection credit users do not shop around for bargains as much as others . |
| 2 | One response suggested that proper training of college staff in validation procedures might dispense with the need for a SCOTVEC officer but in general their support and guidance was welcomed . |
| 3 | At the end of the first year of CCT one study found that local councils had ‘ succeeded in keeping four out of five contracts in-house — but at the cost of substantial job losses among lower paid workers ’ ( The Independent 28. 11.89 : 11 ) . |
| 4 | Results of one investigation suggested that first order births to very young women are disadvantaged by the women 's physiological immaturity and its effect upon the fetus . |
| 5 | One group said that 150 fellow-prisoners had been killed after the death of 10 Serbian soldiers in a Moslem village . |
| 6 | One magistrate asserted that weak complainants sometimes had their cases dismissed because they were unable to push through the crowd which blocked the doorway into the court . |
| 7 | In response to the pills question , one pupil found that 50 pills weighed 1 g and then added lots of 50 pills until 250 was reached . |
| 8 | One tribunal decided that all women qualified for a B rating on the entirely erroneous assumption that domestic servants were a prime source of disaffection . |
| 9 | Broadly speaking , one argument asserted that any improvement in the adverse conditions of life was inherently desirable and should not be withheld from a needy community . |
| 10 | One commentator explained that this plan would enable the Persian Gulf states ‘ to choose their foreign policy course and the means of resolving their internal problems in conformity with their needs and traditions , free of all outside pressures ’ . |
| 11 | For example , one contributor argued that mainstream funding for Whiterock College was a case of robbing Peter to pay Paul . |
| 12 | In connection with young maternal ages , one report concluded that wilful neglect and inexperience among teenagers contributed to adverse health conditions among their infants and very young children . |
| 13 | One survey showed that most households contain prescribed medicines , but that these drugs are used regularly in only half of the cases ( Leach and White 1978 ) . |
| 14 | Although Keynes at one stage suggested that some part of the sterling balances should be cancelled , the idea was never taken up . |
| 15 | Yet a survey study of the 1983 election found that this section of the electorate was the most right-wing of all on issue questions about privatization , incentives versus equality , trade union rights , and comprehensive schools , and that over 70 per cent of them voted Conservative in the election . |
| 16 | The 1989 Survey revealed that many people are aware of other sources of advice and may well pursue them . |
| 17 | Notwithstanding Clinton 's protestations , the agonies suffered over the issue of draft evasion by Dan Quayle as vice-presidential candidate during the 1988 campaign meant that many Republicans seized upon the allegations against Clinton with undisguised delight . |