Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [be] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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31 At about the second hour of day I was told that Kenamun would be leading the investigation .
32 Only the unmarried mother was given specific mention ; for the rest it was assumed that women would follow their husbands .
33 On 27 December Babrak Karmal , who had been a member of the post-coup government but who had subsequently been exiled to the USSR , announced that the former president had been deposed and that he had taken power ; the following day it was announced that Hafizullah Amin had been executed for ‘ crimes against the noble people of Afghanistan ’ .
34 The following day it was revealed that Bering had chipped a bone in a knee during the race , but such was the power of his acceleration as he took up the running that he could hardly have been affected until the very final stages .
35 The astonishing show of support came on the day it was revealed that tapes of an intimate phone call between Di and a male friend are almost certainly genuine .
36 On the same day it was reported that efforts to impose the state of emergency regulations were being hampered by mass civil disobedience , with demonstrations and road blocks slowing the movement of the newly arrived military units from airfields at Yevlakh and Gendzhe ( Azerbaijan 's second largest city , formerly Kirovabad ; it had been given back its pre-Soviet name on Dec. 30 ) .
37 The next day it was reported that Henry VIII was ‘ sorry for the death of Mr Redman his mason ’ .
38 In October it was reported that Max Veillard , a French mercenary and adviser to Taki wanted for his part in the August coup attempt , had been shot dead by police .
39 Meanwhile , in the UK it was felt that compulsion in an activity where you are dependent upon the possible offender for notification of incidents was not realistic so a voluntary system for reporting incidents was adopted .
40 It should be recalled , however , that earlier it was noted that the changes were few and of a relatively trivial nature , and in the case studies it was reported that changes following the use of the booklet tended to be shortlived .
41 On the one hand he was receiving advice from Cardinal Barberini ( later Pope Urban VIII ) that he should steer clear of theological issues ; on the other he was advised that Cardinal Bellarmine would welcome his comments on a passage in Psalm 18 that appeared inconsistent with Copernican doctrine .
42 Under ideal conditions it was estimated that ice formation could exert a maximum pressure of around 200 MPa ( at which point the freezing temperature is -22°C ) , but it was appreciated that this theoretical maximum pressure could never be attained under natural conditions , not the least because it far exceeded the tensile strength of most rocks ( around 25 MPa ) .
43 In Rangoon it is reckoned that 60% of the commercial buildings and 30% of the residential were destroyed .
44 Can I just make the point of clarification in what said there , that as far as staffing additional works spread through for example we are assuming that staff costs are within the figures you are looking at and the the work that was referring to was was after you made your decision to will need to take some element of that cost into the start of the budget there is no staff figures that would occur after you 've formalised this budget we are not aware of so there there will be .
45 At this rate it is estimated that poachers could finish off Zimbabwe 's last rhino by the end of 1994 .
46 In one argument it is pronouncing that huntsmen are having fun , while five sentences later it is saying they are cruel and wicked .
47 In a recent report by Friends of the Earth ( FoE ) to the House of Lords it was stated that Britain could reduce electricity demand by 70 per cent , just through energy efficiency .
48 Last month it was revealed that Di was taped speaking on the phone to bachelor James Gilbey , who told her ‘ I love you . ’
49 The following month it was announced that Dulles would specialise on matters concerning the peace treaty and Truman approved arrangements for Dulles to visit Japan and Korea in June in order to confer with MacArthur and the Japanese government .
50 An inquiry into the killing of over 50 striking workers in Gdansk in December 1970 led in December 1990 to the arrest of three generals and five colonels , and in the same month it was announced that investigations were being held into the introduction of martial law in 1981 .
51 Last month it was announced that Britain will get its first new-wave trams in 1991 .
52 So Dawn Run came to Cheltenham on Gold Cup day with only four races over fences behind her , and in many quarters it was felt that inexperience would prove her downfall against her much more seasoned rivals .
53 In the passage just cited for example it is striking that Cixous includes the Hegelian dialectic in the forms of political oppression which she describes .
54 The day after the announcement of the new travel policy it was revealed that Bush 's former Education Secretary , Lauro Cavazos , was under criminal investigation for the abuse of air travel privileges whilst in office .
55 In general terms it is suggested that determination by expert is quicker and cheaper than determination by arbitrator .
56 The learned abbot , Lupus of Ferrières , consoling the layman Einhard on the death of his wife , pointed out that God had allowed Absalom to be killed despite the prayers of David ; and Agobard , archbishop of Lyon , writing against superstition , asked Louis the Pious what use it was to suppose that God would always show up the just in judicial ordeals , when he had allowed Josiah to perish in battle against the Egyptians .
57 In standard economic theory it is argued that regulation is required if market failures occur .
58 In August it was revealed that Karen Smith , the Birmingham girl currently languishing in a Thailand prison after being convicted of drug smuggling , had been signed up by agents IMG .
59 In the past it was felt that women and their health services were neglected , But now I think we are neglecting men 's health needs . ’
60 In September it was reported that South African lawyers would be brought to Swaziland to prosecute 15 people charged with forming a party to overthrow the government .
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