Example sentences of "[adj] showed that [num] [unc] [no cls] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Research carried out in 1985 showed that 20–25 per cent of hotel guests cared sufficiently about fitness to view the provision of leisure facilities as a major determinant in selecting a place to stay ( Lodging Hospitality , Feb. 1985 ) . |
| 2 | Thus , a survey in November 1979 showed that 69 per cent preferred Edward Kennedy as the Democratic candidate for the presidency as compared to 31 per cent for Jimmy Carter . |
| 3 | A referendum on the issue on March 17 showed that 81.3 per cent of voters on Etorofu and 70.2 per cent on the other islands were opposed to the islands being returned to Japan . |
| 4 | Surveys in the 1970s showed that 40 per cent of Britain 's urban population suffered from traffic-induced noise . |
| 5 | Beaumont 's study of assisted migrants in Scotland in 1976 showed that 88 per cent of his sample said they would have wanted to move in the absence of government assistance and , even more important , 69 per cent of the sample said they would have been able to move without government assistance . |
| 6 | A poll commissioned by the EEC in 1977 showed that 82 per cent of the population declared themselves to be broadly satisfied with living in Britain , compared with 68 per cent in France and 59 per cent in Italy . |
| 7 | And additional cross-tabulations not included in Appendix I showed that two per cent of those buying for cash said that this was because they thought they probably would n't be able to get credit . |
| 8 | This , at least , is the view of Gair ( 1978 ) , who reports that a Gallup Poll in May 1978 showed that 40 per cent of Americans did not know that the United States imported oil at all , and that hardly any of them knew that it imported about half its crude oil and refined products at that time . |
| 9 | A study in 1987 showed that 44 per cent of adults could not understand a basic fire safety notice . |
| 10 | The survey covered 300 organisations with a combined workforce of 1,220,000 showed that 94 per cent of those questioned have notification procedures ; 83 per cent disciplinary procedures where necessary ; 82 per cent operate recruitment checks to eliminate the work-shy and 76 per cent circulate absence statistics to managers , to enable departmental comparisons to be made . |
| 11 | Indeed research carried out for the Maud Committee on local government reform in 1967 showed that 35 per cent of rural district council members were farmers , far and away the most numerous section and more than twice as many as the next largest group . |