Example sentences of "[adj] showed that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 2 | This showed that deaf school-leavers , educated orally , had an average reading age of eight and three quarters and that only about ten per cent of their speech was intelligible to a hearing person . |
| 3 | A count made in 1971 showed that one-parent families on supplementary benefit amounted to two-thirds of all the unmarried mothers , more than half the separated mothers , one-third of the divorced and one-fifth of the widows in this country . |
| 4 | The group discussions reported in Appendix II showed that single women with children ( divorced , separated or widowed ) may have particular difficulty getting low-cost credit , often because they themselves are not working : so they get higher-cost credit instead ( the reasons for this are explored further in chapter 5 ) . |
| 5 | The expenditure plans revealed in January 1992 showed that increased resources had been made available for health , housing , education , and law and order . |
| 6 | The basis for a new statute and manifesto to be adopted by the congress , it was followed by a heated debate which illustrated the division between reformers and conservatives , but the documents approved on Feb. 1 showed that moderate reformers had been victorious . |