Example sentences of "[vb past] that [prep] [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 | Well I got that , I got that for the wee ones . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | ( 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Hackney police stated that of the 85 arrests made by them , 79 were of anti-fascists . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He took that in the steaming forests of Howondaland , after killing its owner with his teeth . |
| 13 | And we did that in the three areas , so we used the sum of three vascular counts in the analysis . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Iakov Solov'ev calculated that of the thirty-nine appointees only thirteen could be called opponents of reform , and three of those withdrew when they realized their helplessness . |