Example sentences of "[vb past] that in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was a formidable catalogue of sins , but many of the ideas became generally accepted and to some extent underlay Mr Wilson 's thinking in 1963 when he talked of the Conservatives ' period in power since 1951 as ‘ thirteen wasted years ’ and promised that in the first hundred days of dynamic government after a Labour victory at the polls a new atmosphere would pervade Whitehall . |
| 2 | Essentially the Post charged that in a 1984 report , Mike Hoover , a freelance news cameraman with a reputation for providing theatrical footage , recreated scenes of Afghan rebels sabotaging electricity pylons — days after the real action had taken place . |
| 3 | Research carried out at Queen Mary and Westfield College , London found that in a major incident at a plant of the type proposed a radius of nine miles could be affected , that is from Bolton in the north to Hale in the south , and from Leigh in the west to the easternmost boundary of Greater Manchester . |
| 4 | Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes . |
| 5 | I have a slow heartbeat , about 67 or 68 , but we found that in a quiet passage of music before a climax the heartbeat could rise to 170 . |
| 6 | And although my initial work was with the individual child , I found that in a large number of cases , the parental interest was of a high order and , and the children 's willingness to involve parents in their behavioural difficulties was also of a high order , so I found myself working not just within the school , not just with the child , but in a parent-child situation . |
| 7 | But when we left the capital with its taxis playing Strauss over Beijing Radio and travelled on the diesel train through the countryside , we found that in the rural areas change comes more slowly . |
| 8 | Buxton and Klein 's study found that in the early 1970s local variations within a region were greater than between regions . |
| 9 | We found that in the long term a little under a third of the participating teachers had been significantly influenced by what they had heard and seen and had made major changes in their classroom practice as a result . |
| 10 | He then crossed together members of the first generation , and found that in the second generation tall and short peas occurred in the ratio 3 tall : 1 short . |
| 11 | He found that in the neutral condition , where no particular inference was confirmed or disconfirmed by subsequent information , all potential inferences were falsely identified as having occurred in a passage about 25 per cent of the time . |
| 12 | A Home Office Research Study published in 1989 found that in the 111 cases in the survey which the police judged to involve serious arrestable offences , the suspect was detained over twenty-four and under thirty-six hours in 44 of them . |
| 13 | Not according to Downes and Young ( 1987 ) , who found that in the post-war period , the rate of increase of crime under the Conservatives was , on average , twice that under Labour . |
| 14 | They found that in the United states , Belgium , Thailand and Japan , the decline in the rate of sexual intercourse in marriage is more closely associated with the wife 's age than that of the husband . |
| 15 | He should n't be in her thoughts at all , and yet she found that in the short space of time since she had met him he had sunk in , wormed his way into her mind with his disturbing home truths . |
| 16 | Landau and Nathan ( 1983 ) found that in the juvenile bureau of six London boroughs white juveniles were significantly more cautioned than black , including juveniles with previous convictions . |
| 17 | They ignored temporary conversions from roughland to grass leys ( and vice versa ) and found that in the 30 years to 1980 in their 6 study areas , 15,000 hectares of rough pasture had reverted to roughland but 23,900 hectares of roughland had been converted to grass leys . |
| 18 | It found that in the 3 years since the first survey , crime had moved from third place to the top of people ‘ s list of problems affecting their neighbourhood . |
| 19 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 20 | In 1892 , Clara Collet , a social investigator , reported that in the richer suburbs unmarried women aged 35–45 outnumbered unmarried men by over three to one , and only one-third of these were domestic servants . |
| 21 | In November 1940 , the master reported that in the previous four weeks there had been 93 admissions , plus 12 patients from the Services and 170 evacuees from London hospitals . |
| 22 | The Madrid daily El País of Nov. 30 reported that in the previous week gunmen forced the wife of Indian leader Almílcar Méndez to participate in a demonstration against her husband . |
| 23 | Recently , however , Luck reported that in an unselected population detailed ultrasound scanning detected all of the cases of Down 's syndrome when a physical abnormality was present . |
| 24 | But it did make a difference — she realized that in the long hours she lay awake thinking about it . |
| 25 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 26 | With a sense of shock Harriet realised that in the last hours Paula had become more of a stranger to her than she had ever been during the twenty years she had believed her dead . |
| 27 | In October the US Climate Analysis Centre announced that in the western Sahel rainfall was three-quarters of the norm , but that in eastern Sudan and northern Ethiopia it was less than half the average . |
| 28 | On 4 June he announced that in the forthcoming referendum and elections Algeria would have a single electoral college , rather than the old dual college system , which had guaranteed an over-representation for Europeans . |
| 29 | In the first week of July the Soviet authorities announced that in the third quarter of 1990 its oil deliveries to its European COMECON partners would be reduced by around 30 per cent . |
| 30 | Chairman , thank , thank you very much indeed erm Chairman , I will in fact and er perhaps if I read that in the first instance I have n't circulated it erm if I read that the first instance it will set the of what I have to say . |