Example sentences of "that [noun sg] had [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The results showed that capercaillie had vanished from 12 of the 56 forests which had held them for 20 years , and numbers had declined in nearly all the other forests . |
| 2 | In October 1974 Labour won only a small majority of seats but that majority had disappeared by 1976 , because a number of minor nationalist parties were able to maximize their effect on the electoral system by virtue of their votes being concentrated into a limited number of constituencies , and because by-elections were lost . |
| 3 | But whereas , in 1981 , 14,250 books sold for every title published , in 1987 that figure had fallen to 10,913 . |
| 4 | Is the Minister aware that there were more than 17,000 people employed in the Scottish coal industry in 1984 , but by 1989 that figure had fallen to 3,480 and it will be even smaller now ? |
| 5 | In 1990 , a total of 903 knives were seized at ports , airports and other points of entry and in 1991 that figure had risen to 2,082 . |
| 6 | In 1879 only 10 per cent of the tonnage launched on the Clyde was of steel construction , but by 1889 that figure had risen to 97 per cent . |
| 7 | Four years later , on 31 March 1991 , that figure had risen to 6,130 , which represents 63 per cent . |
| 8 | In 1951 there were approximately 15,300 settlers from the Caribbean in Britain : ten years later that figure had risen to 171,500 . |
| 9 | When the psychiatrist Jack Dominian wrote his influential book on marital breakdown in 1968 , that figure had soared to some 30,000 divorces every year . |
| 10 | In 1956 , only 600 sets received the images produced by the state broadcasting company , Spanish Radio-Television ( Radio Televisión Española , RTVE ) , but , by 1958 , that figure had leapt to 40,000 . |
| 11 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 12 | The central bank 's annual report , released in February 1991 , showed that GDP had grown by 2.3 per cent in 1990 , but would slow in the 12 months to end-June 1991 as a result of an increase in oil prices and the loss of remittances from Iraq caused by the Gulf war . |
| 13 | At the Party 's Fourteenth Congress , held at Battersea on 29 May 1937 , Pollitt reported that membership had increased to 12,500 , nearly twice that at the previous Congress in 1935 . |
| 14 | Presenting the 1989 budget to the National Assembly in January 1989 , the Finance Minister , William Hupper , revealed that the public-sector deficit for 1988 had been equivalent to 27 per cent of gross national product ( GNP ) , and that inflation had risen to 50,000 per cent . |
| 15 | As recently as 1970 the Commonwealth accounted for 20 per cent of the value of the UK 's trade in manufactured goods , but by 1982 that share had decreased to 11 per cent . |
| 16 | We need to understand the position of the Sanhedrin , Jesus is really representing great changes in their tradition great a great revolution really and we know that what he was doing was was sort of getting Christianity to grow out of Judaism , but it meant that Judaism had to move to one side . |
| 17 | The move came four days after the Labour Department announced that unemployment had increased to 7.5 per cent , the highest total in nearly eight years . |
| 18 | In January Norbert Blüm , the Labour and Social Affairs Minister , had announced that unemployment had crept above 2,000,000 in December 1989 , but taking into account the arrival of some 700,000 ethnic Germans the overall unemployment rate had fallen from 8.4 to 7.9 per cent . |
| 19 | Less welcome news for the government was that unemployment had risen to 844,000 ( 9.9 per cent of the workforce ) by the end of April , the worst figure since 1983 , the year that the ALP had come to power . |
| 20 | That Kellynch Hall must be let , ‘ a beloved home made over to others ’ , is deeply felt ; but , within a few weeks of the Crofts ' arrival as tenants , Anne ‘ could not but in conscience feel that they were gone who deserved not to stay , and that Kellynch-hall had passed into better hands than its owners . ’ |
| 21 | Ideas for that structure had crystallized into two models : ( i ) a community of independent and sovereign states , as advocated by Croatia and Slovenia ; and ( ii ) a united federal state , as advocated by Serbia and Montenegro , in which republics continued to delegate some sovereign rights to a central government . |
| 22 | Nowadays most of that set had moved on one way or another , though the odd one still dropped in occasionally . |