Example sentences of "of [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 . |