Example sentences of "[pers pn] [was/were] [vb pp] [that] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 2 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 3 | I have asked parliamentary questions about the illegal sale and possession of knives and I was told that 150 people were prosecuted in 1988 for having in a public place such an article with a blade or point and in 1989 , it was 2,018 — a huge jump . |
| 4 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 5 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 6 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 7 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that four Oromo organizations , the OPDO , the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia ( IFLO ) , the United Oromo People 's Liberation Front ( UOPLF ) and the Oromo Abo Liberation Front ( OALF ) , had agreed to work together towards the creation of a " broad-based national entity " . |
| 8 | Last week it was announced that seventy-five people are to take voluntary redundancy at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire . |
| 9 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 10 | In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 . |
| 11 | By Jan. 19 it was announced that six groups had agreed to the formula , but the proposal received strong opposition from the Pakistan-based Hezb-e Islami , led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . |
| 12 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |
| 13 | It was announced that two trees would be planted in Regent 's Park on Wednesday 18th March at 11.30 in memory of and . |
| 14 | On Nov. 23 it was announced that 100,000 cases of corruption had been uncovered during 1989 , three times more than in 1988 . |
| 15 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
| 16 | On Feb. 28 it was announced that 54 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks on Hoxha monuments . |
| 17 | It was written that one day you returned smelling of snow and very ill from winter . |
| 18 | GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped . |
| 19 | At an early stage it was realised that one factor which can inhibit labour mobility is a lack of mutual understanding of qualification systems between member states . |
| 20 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 21 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 22 | It was said that one months worth of rain had rained within about three hours . |
| 23 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |
| 24 | With the surrender of Germany and Turkey 's entry into the war , it was felt that one phase of our work was done , and that at last we could go home . |
| 25 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 26 | At our last meeting it was suggested that two groups should meet to discuss the future work of the Council . |
| 27 | It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic . |
| 28 | Some time ago it was suggested that three east coast sites , at Brough-on-Humber , Caister-by-Yarmouth and Rochester , possessed late second or early third-century fortifications which were different from the general run of urban defences of this date . |
| 29 | It was noted that large stocks of the Haler text book ( still selling well ) existed and after discussion it was agreed that two pallet loads held in store should be destroyed , leaving a stock of approximately 1000 . |
| 30 | On Aug. 10 it was agreed that five minesweepers would leave for the eastern Mediterranean , but their deployment in the Gulf was ruled out . |