Example sentences of "in [num] [verb] that [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | New research into the effects of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in 1986 reveal that more radioactivity may have been released than originally thought . |
| 2 | A survey of welfare spending by all private firms conducted by the Ministry of Labour in 1975 estimated that such payments yielded benefits equivalent to 10–15 per cent of annual earnings , but did not distinguish very clearly how this differs according to size of firm . |
| 3 | A headmistress in 1946 said that same thing at greater length , but in doing so collapsed into meaninglessness : In my opinion , such a school should not be an imitation of the old Secondary School ( that is , of the grammar school ) … |
| 4 | A survey of employers in 1981 suggested that most employers believed age discrimination was an admitted problem in many companies . |
| 5 | A sample survey carried out for the NCC in 1978 showed that most country-dwellers go to town or out-of-town shopping centres to buy things like furniture or clothes . |
| 6 | Chinua Achebe 's novel , Anthills of the Savannah published in 1987 suggested that such leadership had still not emerged almost twenty years later . |
| 7 | Some African coins used to be attributed to the Numidian King Jugurtha ( 118–105BC ) , but the discovery of a hoard at Enna in Sicily in 1966 showed that these coins were actually contemporary with the period of democracy at Syracuse in 214–212BC , and the coins could therefore be redated and attributed to the Carthaginian expedition against Sicily in 213–210 BC . |
| 8 | However , a Consumers ' Association ( CA ) survey in 1990 found that most appliances did n't need any repairs at all over five years . |