Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The environmental impact of precolonial agriculture in the subhumid highlands of central México equalled that of the Classic Maya cities in the lowland rainforests of Guatemala , and was even more severe than that of the indigenous cultivators in New Guinea . |
| 2 | It argued that of the half million British troops overseas , 200,000 were in areas that did not create a foreign currency liability , and of the rest few were in areas requiring direct dollar expenditure ; ‘ it follows that the contribution to be made to the balance of payments problem by the withdrawal of troops in overseas theatres will be strictly limited , will apply only to those areas when there is at present a currency obligation , and will produce little or no direct dollar saving . ' |
| 3 | In 1921 a report placed before the Prussian Diet revealed that of the 460,884 hectares of land purchased by the Commission up to that time , only 27.4 per cent had come from the Poles ; a staggering 72.5 per cent had been purchased by the Commission from German estate owners . |
| 4 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 5 | So got that as a little project and on that subject let's talk about |
| 6 | I did n't tell him about the handbill I had found ; indeed , I quickly dismissed that as a mere coincidence . |
| 7 | John Major , speaking before he flew back to London , dismissed that as an inaccurate picture of Britain . |
| 8 | In December 1724 Wade reported that of the 22,000 fighting men who , he estimated , might be raised in the Highlands , 12,000 were active or potential Jacobites , some with hidden weapons , and that the best way to keep them in check was with independent companies of loyal Highlanders , under their own Whig but Gaelic-speaking officers . |
| 9 | On Oct. 14 Egypt 's state-controlled Middle East News Agency reported that of the 90,000 Egyptians currently residing in Jordan , some 70,000 without work permits were to be fined and deported . |
| 10 | The third measles trial reported that of the 12 deaths ( 10 in controls , two in those given vitamin A ) , 10 were due to respiratory disease . |
| 11 | Yeah well , you see , we found that for the first three or four years now they 've gradually dropped off a bit , but they did used to , I mean they still come , but it |
| 12 | We found that of the 465 graphs of key financial variables , there were 142 instances ( 30% ) of measurement distortion greater than 5%. 129 of these were distortions of a rising trend , with 98 exaggerations and 31 understatements . |
| 13 | She found that of the 16 libraries which retained archive files of statistics , the following principal uses were recorded : monitoring book use for duplication of titles ( 10 libraries ) ; fund allocation ( 5 ) ; monitoring book use for change of loan status of books ( 5 ) ; and for relegation purposes ( 5 ) ; examination of interdisciplinary use of stock ( 3 ) ; monitoring loans for possible changes in loan regulations ( 2 ) . |
| 14 | ( 1986 ) , for example , found that of the 450 children coming into care in five local authorities in England and Wales , residential care accounted for 51 per cent of all admissions ( p. 80 ) . |
| 15 | A postal survey of a national sample of 250 managers of large hotels found that of the alternative strategies which are favoured when faced with new competitors a change in prices is regarded as relatively unimportant whereas non-price strategies , such as sales promotion and refurbishment of premises , are . |
| 16 | The erm , any other areas that I 've drew particular attention as a , as a , key issue is on the matter of er legality and doing work for other bodies , which has been an issue here which er , as you may recall we mentioned that in the last two or three years . |
| 17 | The storm was over and he regarded that as a good omen . |
| 18 | Indeed the approach in some ways resembled that of the early Russian school of soil science and involved the recognition of zonal phenomena as the direct results of latitudinal climatic belts ; of azonal phenomena arising from non-climatic control including endogenetic effects ; extrazonal phenomena which occurred beyond their normal range of occurrence such as sand dunes on coasts ; and polyzonal phenomena including those which operate in all regions of the globe subject to the same basic physical laws . |
| 19 | The Greek Foreign Ministry estimated that of the estimated 500,000 Pontians currently in the Soviet Union at least 20 per cent would be likely to emigrate to Greece . |
| 20 | The US Defence Department estimated that of the 33,629 US citizens killed during the Korean war , the bodies of some 8,172 remained unaccounted for . |
| 21 | I added that for the old tape , you know ? |
| 22 | The Hackney police stated that of the 85 arrests made by them , 79 were of anti-fascists . |
| 23 | A MORI Poll conducted in November 1988 showed that of a hypothetical £100 to be spent on cleaning up nitrates and pesticides in the public water supply , people felt industry should pay £39 , farmers £19 , the government £31 and the consumer £11 . |
| 24 | The official results showed that of the 2,186,567 people eligible to vote , 2,103,938 ( 96.22 per cent ) had done so . |
| 25 | A survey by the author of 100 district and county planning authorities showed that of the 76 district planning authorities which responded to the survey , 26 of them refused planning permission for the type of development mentioned in ( a ) above , stating odour emission as a reason for refusal . |
| 26 | The final result of a referendum showed that of the 9,123 native Andorrans eligible to vote 74.2 per cent had said ‘ yes ’ to the changes and only 25.8 per cent ‘ no ’ . |
| 27 | The government claimed that of the promised funding of US$30,000,000 from the United States to assist in their relocation only $16,500,000 had been received . |
| 28 | Swanson 's abduction followed that of a Negros-based Japanese aid worker , Fumio Mizuno , who was seized by the NPA on May 29 . |
| 29 | Cornelius observed that of the twenty-seven windows on the first floor , eight were open , with their blinds up , eight were closed with their blinds down , nine were closed , with their blinds up , one was open with its blind down and one was closed , had its blind halfway up and the light on . |
| 30 | ( The proposed name of the party echoed that of the Liberal Democratic Party , a similarly broad conservative grouping , which had ruled Japan since its formation in 1955 . ) |