Example sentences of "[verb] that of [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | However , a subsequent Pentagon report , released internally , disclosed that of the 312 soldiers listed as wounded , 72 were injured in parachute jumps . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders suggest that of the 36,610 properties repossessed in the first half of this year 45 per cent were voluntary , in the sense that they did not involve a court order . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | ( 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 ) . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Tests last night confirmed the blood matched that of the two women , hacked to death at an isolated beach next to the Indian Ocean . |
| 11 | The Hackney police stated that of the 85 arrests made by them , 79 were of anti-fascists . |
| 12 | Table II shows that of the seven patients with increased gastric alkaline exposure , five had increased oesophageal alkaline exposure , illustrating a temporal relationship between gastric and oesophageal alkalinisation . |
| 13 | To gauge the effectiveness of the appeal of the plaque , consider that of the ten donors of $500,000 or more , only one has forgone the opportunity to take public credit for their magnanimity ; and of the thirty-one contributors of $100,000 or more , all but six , ( three have underwritten exhibition and outreach programs ) . |
| 14 | The community was something more than a collection of species working together for mutual advantage — it obeyed laws that could only be understood at a level transcending that of the individual organisms . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The syllabus for each book reflects that of the major coursebooks used at the same level . |
| 17 | Whether Parisian or Reims produced the great mounds of town refuse which one can see piled up on the roadside are a dusty grey colour interspersed with flecks of pale blue ; the stench they give out , far outweighing that of the spent piles of marc , can not be missed . |
| 18 | I understand that of the 24 nations scheduled to take part 20 have already been nominated and four will have to qualify at the Catania tournament in Sicily this April . |
| 19 | I understand that of the 24 nations scheduled to take part 20 have already been nominated and four will have to qualify at the Catania tournament in Sicily this April . |
| 20 | This simple epidemiological model allows us to calculate that of the 1,305 cases of known opioid use in 1984–5 , 261 will have stopped using opioids during the following year . |
| 21 | The result of the House vote meant that of the 13 vetoes applied by Bush since his inauguration in January 1989 , all had been maintained . |
| 22 | The smaller nations get short shrift on somewhat different grounds : in so far as they are affected by general trends , their history recapitulates that of the major states . |
| 23 | Bradley explains that of the 70,000 visitors in LA at the time of last year 's riots not one was injured . |
| 24 | Does my right hon. Friend agree that of the known policies of the Labour party — |
| 25 | This therefore means that of the 4,339 hectares cultivated in Champagne 's top villages , only 4,309 hold the rank of grand cru . |
| 26 | He said that of the nine panes at the SECC which had shattered since its construction in 1985 , only a couple had actually resulted in falling glass . |
| 27 | Mr Ridley said that of the five charges of maladministration the Ombudsman only attached ‘ great significance ’ to one which was a new point about the Jersey partnership . |
| 28 | In an interview with Pravda on Nov. 5 , 1989 , the Soviet Armed Forces Chief of Staff , Col.- Gen. Mikhail Moiseyev , said that of the unilateral cuts in conventional forces announced by the Soviet President , Mikhail Gorbachev , in December 1988 ( see pp. 36412 ; 36440 ) , the Soviet Union had thus far withdrawn 50,320 personnel , 3,118 tanks and 351 aircraft from Eastern Europe and Mongolia ( see p. 36657 ) and from forward Soviet deployments . |
| 29 | A government spokesman said that of the 5,200 inmates in such camps , 81 per cent were guilty of murder , rape or theft of socialist property and 50 per cent were habitual offenders . |
| 30 | If you are adding a connector to an existing cable check that its orientation matches that of the other connectors . |