Example sentences of "that in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 A recent edition of Priorities , a publication of the American Council on Science and Health , reported that a Food and Drug Administration study showed that in 7,394 samples of domestic food , 65 percent contained no pesticide residues and 34 percent had residue levels below the legal tolerance level .
2 She doubted that in ordinary circumstances Herbert Fraser and Polly Beard got on well together .
3 I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views .
4 Social workers must recognise , therefore , that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group .
5 The story , in brief , is that in colonial times the British banks would not lend to Sri Lankans , except to the very wealthy or very influential .
6 The story goes that in colonial times , La Paz 's upper classes used to hold a three-day festival in the main square , graciously dispensing banknotes and coins to their children and servants .
7 He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save .
8 The significant difference was that in rural areas Fatah tended to rule alone , whereas in the camps and towns , the radicals posed a strong challenge .
9 It is estimated that in rural areas four million people live more than five miles from a CAB .
10 Carvajál pointed out that in rural areas such as those around San Carlos there were schools without functioning water pumps or sanitary services .
11 Doctors have discovered that in suitable cases the lumpy atheroma deposits can be squeezed flat , widening the arteries again .
12 Quantitative measurements show that in methanogenic subjects the majority of gaseous hydrogen produced from fermentation is consumed by methanogenic bacteria .
13 This means that in aggregate man-hours of paid work still outnumbered woman-hours by about two to one .
14 On the other hand , archaeological study has also shown that in specific locations across southern Britain ( and elsewhere in Europe ) there were large-scale exploitations of flint resources , in effect flint mines .
15 Outside these structured occasions , when conversations are more natural and spontaneous , policemen reveal that in specific types of emotionally demanding work their distancing and coldness is tenuous and risks being broken down .
16 It is clear from the Hang Seng Bank case [ 1991 ] 1 A.C. 306 that in appropriate circumstances a company carrying on business in Hong Kong can earn profits which do not arise in or derive from the colony , notwithstanding the fact that those profits are not attributable to an independent overseas branch .
17 It is difficult to conceal the suspicion that in Soviet eyes a new technological era is dawning , with consequences for military science as far-reaching as the ballistic missile and nuclear weapon , and the ‘ revolution in military affairs ’ which they unleashed .
18 If they start to moan at long , boring nights of inactivity , the bottom could quickly fall out of a tour that in cricketing terms has all the ingredients of being a huge success .
19 It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes .
20 The WHO ( 1986 ) reported that in industrialised countries , accident injuries rank fifth among the leading causes of death in children and young people .
21 It is for this reason that in Victorian novels the description of working-class interiors , as I have mentioned , invariably emphasizes their hard-won decency .
22 It is not that in desperate circumstances we discover ourselves to be natural egoists and throw off moral restraints , it is rather that morality no longer applies .
23 It appears that in electrical repairs ) , it is common for two prices to be quoted .
24 No wonder that in 1871 contemporaries , stupefied with horror as the city burned , saw in the excesses of the Commune a judgement of God .
25 If it was pointed out that in mixed-ability classes too little was now being expected of the very clever child , teachers tended to reply that such children could look after themselves , and required , or deserved , no special consideration .
26 His thesis is that in Western societies today state involvement in redistribution of the benefits and burdens of citizenship , and state planning and regulation in public law , has led to an abandonment of concern with formal justice and a turning to procedural and substantive justice .
27 Finally , the theory that attention is directed to the left or right side as a consequence of asymmetrical activation of the cerebral hemispheres ( Kinsbourne , 1970 ; 1973 ; 1975a ) predicts that in hemispherectomised patients attention should be directed almost exclusively to the side contralateral to the intact hemisphere .
28 The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish .
29 Johnson 's coach , Charlie Francis , an ex-international sprinter himself , had forecast that in perfect conditions Ben would run 9.85 seconds .
30 It was therefore important to check that in embryonic wounds the epidermis was actively moving over the mesenchyme and not merely riding passively on mesenchymal contraction .
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