Example sentences of "[vb past] that in [adj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Home Office Research Unit found that in 1973 it was 25 per cent. , as compared with 81 per cent . |
| 2 | His political aims were unclear , and his closest allies believed that in 1845 he was about to betray the company , which was in a state of virtual collapse at the time of Somes 's death . |
| 3 | On retiring from Nigeria in 1955 ( constitutional changes meant that in 1954 he reassumed the title of governor-general , dormant since 1919 ) , Macpherson was chairman of the 1956 UN visiting mission to the trust territories of the Pacific . |
| 4 | The failure of the Prussian and German people to follow the successful example of the French in a revolution from below meant that in 1870 they were forced to accept the unification of Germany by the reactionary Junker powers . |
| 5 | I knew that in 1945 they could not make do on their rations . |
| 6 | Sarah complained that in 1990 they only spent 42 nights together — and that was a recipe for trouble . |
| 7 | He said that in 1975 we had a referendum in which it was suggested that it was an economic and trade rather than a political matter . |
| 8 | You wrote that in 1936 you bought your first painting ( still your favourite British painting ) George Stubbs 's ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ , immediately you saw it . |
| 9 | He explained that in 1886 he was making enquiries about the possibilities of opening up the canal routes to the south and was put in touch with a syndicate in London which was proposing to improve and develop these navigations . |