Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [vb past] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Officials in Moscow claimed that communist party buildings in Lithuania were rightfully the property of the Soviet Communist Party ( CPSU ) since the CPL 's declaration of independence in December 1989 [ see pp. 37128-29 ] . |
| 2 | The debacle in Poznam featured that old chestnut , the diabolical deflection , known and despised since that tragic afternoon in Gelsenkirchen . |
| 3 | A statement by the governor of the emirate 's Central Bank in February noted that 650 wells were still on fire and put the time needed to resume output at 9 months . |
| 4 | Ten years later a cohort study in Iceland confirmed that male blood-relatives of women with breast cancer had an excess risk of prostate cancer . |
| 5 | Earlier figures given out by the US Army in January said that 23 US soldiers had been killed ( later amended to 26 ) and 323 wounded . |
| 6 | Some press reports in January claimed that Sino-Soviet relations were deteriorating as a result of the upheavals in Eastern Europe [ see pp. 37104-10 ] . |
| 7 | While a recent survey in England showed that many youngsters found books ‘ boring ’ compared with space-age games , films and TV programmes , there has been no decrease in public-library borrowing by children in Belfast over the last five years . |
| 8 | The Crown court in Kidderminster heard that 46 year old , Andrew Tracey had once been a member of the paedophile information exchange . |
| 9 | The system of tripartisme ( three-party co-operation ) had survived the strains of devising a constitution and the elections to a National Assembly in November showed that stable government would continue to rely on the main parties working together : the Communists now had 29 per cent of the vote , the Christian Democrats 26 per cent and the Socialists 18 per cent . |
| 10 | Opposite : The restrictions on the blue-cars of Lytham St. Annes in Blackpool meant that considerable efforts had to be made to advertise the line . |
| 11 | The traditional nature of religion in Ulster meant that such compartments were less water tight than they would be in , for example , America , but the very structure of Ulster society , economy , and polity meant that changes in one sphere would have repercussions in the others . |
| 12 | A post mortem yesterday at the Natal State Mortuary in Durban revealed that both women died from multiple wounds from the panga and bush knives . |
| 13 | An inquest in Liverpool heard that unemployed printer Philip Banks , 31 , moved back in with his aunt , Hilda Barrett , after his girlfriend left him and returned to her husband . |
| 14 | In 1895 , when the ratemahatmaya of Katugampola Hatpattu in Kurunagala complained that Low Countrymen from Chilaw district were stealing cattle and removing them to their own district , the Low Country mudaliyar concerned replied that the charge was false , and that Kandyans were involved in the few cases of cattle stealing . |
| 15 | The British consul-general in Seoul thought that Soviet suspicion of the anti-trusteeship groups was understandable enough and that both sides in the Joint Commission were jockeying to gain the best tactical place before the breakdown of talks ; neither wished to appear responsible for precipitating the collapse . |
| 16 | A PLO official in Cairo said that Libyan officials were attempting to reach the area overland . |
| 17 | An investigation at Dean Close School in Cheltenham revealed that seven A level pupils had smoked cannabis in woodland near the school in the last week of term . |
| 18 | Even the family allowances , though based in their present form upon the experience and conditions of the inter-war years — when Seebohm Rowntree 's surveys in York suggested that one male in four earned less than was necessary to maintain a man , wife and two children above the poverty line — consist of a simple system of payments and enter into budgetary habits and expectations no more and no less than the fiscal allowances , of which I once suggested to a CPC conference they might be regarded as an extension . |
| 19 | British diplomats in Tokyo believed that increasing signs of restlessness could be perceived and that it would not be wise to delay a peace treaty for much longer . |
| 20 | Later investigations at Strathclyde Police headquarters in Glasgow revealed that two inquiries to police computers that night had originated in Saltcoats . |
| 21 | Van Mook was rebuked : the Dutch ambassador in London advised that any Dutchman who negotiated with Sukarno would be tried for treason . |
| 22 | One recent survey in London showed that rectal intercourse , or attempts at it , had occurred in 35 per cent of sexually active women attending a clinic , during the preceding 6 months . |
| 23 | Researchers from the Desert Research Institute in Nevada found that electrical conductivity in the ice core fluctuated widely over less than five years . |
| 24 | An audit of prescribing of gentamicin in Leicester showed that this approach considerably increased the number of gentamicin concentration that were within the therapeutic range when measured after one to two days ' treatment . |
| 25 | The conference here in June agreed that voluntary repatriation should be given time to work and that only then would ‘ alternative measures ’ — including compulsory repatriation — be considered . |
| 26 | An Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) report in June showed that nuclear power had provided 22 per cent of total electricity generation in OECD countries in 1989 . |