Example sentences of "in [art] [noun prp] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However that may be , there were apparently no serious doubts about Part 2 and the GEORGE shot of 8 May , 1951 , in the Pacific showed that a thermonuclear reaction could be produced by a fission explosion — although in this shot an enormous fission explosion was required to ignite a relatively small amount of thermonuclear fuel . |
| 2 | In mid-1990 researchers from the National Science Foundation in the USA said that they had found evidence that ultraviolet light penetrating the seasonally thinner ozone layer protecting the earth from the sun 's harmful ultraviolet rays was damaging marine life in the oceans around Antarctica . |
| 3 | Opposition to this plan in the USA disappeared as news came of the Communist take-over of Czechoslovakia in February 1948 ( CORE , p. 89 ) . |
| 4 | Labour leaders in the USA claimed that NAFTA would destroy jobs and that it offered little concrete provision for retraining . |
| 5 | A survey by the London Business School into small British high technology firms in the USA found that : |
| 6 | Tests carried out on back pain sufferers in the USA showed that 77% of those who tried the inserts said that their pain was considerably reduced after only two weeks of using the product . |
| 7 | The trade unions and professional associations surveyed in the UK said that vast inconsistencies in the prevention of occupational blood-borne hazards exist between employers of healthcare and public service workers in different regional authorities . |
| 8 | This is perhaps just as well , since White 's informative 1985 survey of interlending in the UK found that the percentage of UK requests satisfied within a period of seven days ( from all sources ) had declined from 50% in 1977 to 32% in 1985 . |
| 9 | For example , a 1982 opinion poll in the UK found that in answer to the question ‘ What is most valued as a contribution to the quality of life ? ’ , the percentage wanting ‘ safe streets ’ was 72 compared to 53 for ‘ attractive countryside ’ , 51 for ‘ unpolluted atmosphere ’ and 46 for ‘ good public transport ’ and only 37 for ‘ access to a car ’ . |
| 10 | His time in the ATC meant that he was targeted for the Air Force . |
| 11 | Indeed , early research on the use of paraprofessionals in the US indicated that a major barrier to the optimum use of this category of social service personnel was the lack of appropriate training for the professional staff who supervised and directed their work ( Denham and Shatz , 1969 ) . |
| 12 | Finally , some psychiatrists in the US argued that the black person was relatively free of madness in a state of slavery , but became prey to mental disturbance when set free . |
| 13 | In an earlier chapter I noted that a study of poor people 's movements in the US concluded that such influence as they had was derived from mass protests rather than from participation in electoral politics ; and a study of the economic progress of black Americans in the late 1970s argued that it was ‘ under the impetus of the civil rights movement and the ghetto revolts of the sixties , [ that ] blacks gained access to new employment opportunities in business , government , the media , and high paying jobs in the skilled crafts ’ ( Smith , 1978 ) . |
| 14 | But Panamanain exiles in the US complained that a small show of force by the US might have been enough to tip the balance in the rebels ' favour . |
| 15 | A survey recently conducted in the US established that the average business person spends over three hours a week searching for misplaced information . |
| 16 | Jan Reedijk and co-workers at the state University of Leiden in the Netherlands found that cis- DDP could bond to two guanine bases in a small chain of single stranded DNA despite an intervening cyosine base ( Journal of the American Chemical Society , vol 104 , p 2664 ) . |
| 17 | In 1305 the abbot of Thorney in the Fens complained that the abbot of Peterborough ‘ lately by night raised a dyke across the high road ’ , and so cut off the former 's access to corn and pasture . |
| 18 | An oil industry executive working in the Gulf said that the tax issue had created unusual unity among producing states , though it was too early for agreement on how they should react . |
| 19 | With the suspension of the 18-month US-PLO dialogue in June 1990 [ p. 37547 ] , which followed the May 30 seaborne attack against Israel by guerrillas of the Palestine Liberation Front [ see pp. 37443-44 ] and Arafat 's failure to denounce the attack to Washington 's satisfaction , some leading figures in the PLO suggested that Europe should play a larger role in the peace process . |
| 20 | Peter Wilby in the Independent concluded that antiracist education had been ‘ a disaster ’ . |