Example sentences of "[num] [verb] that [adj] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times of Feb. 22 reported that seven senior executives from the Valsella Meccanotecnica company in Brescia , northern Italy , had been convicted by a Brescia court of illegally exporting 9,000,000 land mines to Iraq in 1982-86 . |
| 2 | Sub-paragraph 13 of paragraph 12 provided that all written statements made under caution should be in accordance with Annex D , paragraph 2 of which provided that where a person wished to write his own statement , he should be asked to write out and sign before so doing : ‘ I make this statement of my own free will . |
| 3 | Reports on Jan. 30 said that two military judges in Padua examining the legality of " Gladio " had , in an interim indictment , charged the organization with " possible acts of terrorism " and claimed that it had maintained close links with the fascist " Marine Star " established after the Second World War . |
| 4 | The Independent of Dec. 7 estimated that 3,400 foreign nationals were being held in Kuwait and Iraq , including 580 detained at strategic military and civilian sites as part of Iraq 's now abandoned " human shield " policy [ for which see p. 37697 ] . |
| 5 | Water suppliers ' own records for 1987–9 showed that such surprising areas as Bath , Brighton , Huntingdon , Braintree and Waveney had lead pollution of drinking water above the MAC . |
| 6 | A pamphleteer in 1762 foresaw that more frequent trips to London would put increasing numbers of country gentlemen " in the mode " . |
| 7 | Further , exercises 1.6.2 and 1.6.3 indicate that these sequence-type polynomials do appear to behave as we wanted them to . |
| 8 | Round-table discussions held at the Institute of Latin America early in 1981 revealed that several Soviet ideologists were now prepared to lend credence to the long-discredited theories of guerrilla warfare upheld by Che Guevara . |
| 9 | The Egyptian newspaper Al-Ahram of Aug. 3 reported that 120 Iraqi officers had been executed for refusing to support the invasion , a claim confirmed by Arab diplomats arriving in Syria from Kuwait in late August . |
| 10 | Citing " informed Sudanese sources " the Egyptian paper Al-Sharq al-Awsat of Feb. 6 reported that 41 military officers had been arrested on Feb. 2 before they could carry out a plan to bomb the general staff headquarters during a meeting of the country 's military leaders . |
| 11 | A joint statement issued by Iran and the United Kingdom in New York on Sept. 27 announced that full diplomatic relations between the two countries had been resumed " on the basis of mutual respect " . |
| 12 | The Economist of June 8 reported that 45 Palestinian collaborators had been killed during April and May , compared with 18 Palestinians killed by the Israeli security forces . |
| 13 | The Guardian of Aug. 1 reported that 2,420 Punjab-related killings had been reported in the Indian press during the first seven months of 1990 . |
| 14 | However , the International Herald Tribune of Feb. 1 reported that some Taiwanese economists believed that the plan " could prove to be only a temporary crutch that will fail if the worldwide economic slump continues " . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Abdel Ghani on Feb. 27 confirmed that more foreign workers were expected to come to North Yemen to carry out jobs including refuse collection and disposal , in which Somali , Sudanese and Filipino workers were already employed . |
| 16 | Figure 1 shows that individual secretory volumes were reasonably constant in patients and controls during the four hour infusion study , showing effective continual hormonal stimulation and satisfactory recovery . |
| 17 | ( One suspects that some head teachers regard such librarians as potential trouble-makers , but is it wise to buy a quiet life at the expense of quality of service ? ) |
| 18 | A report by the human rights organization Amnesty International published on March 27 said that 650 political prisoners were held in Moroccan prisons and that many of them had been tortured . |
| 19 | The conclusion that His197 interacts directly with the benzhydryl of CP 96345 suggests that other nearby residues within the transmembrane domain should also interact with the antagonist . |
| 20 | The Lord Chancellor 's Practice Direction of 17 March 1987 provides that clear photographic copies ( of all documents ) will be accepted as if printed or typed . |
| 21 | The Far Eastern Economic Review of Nov. 9 reported that Chinese military officers had been allowed to resume work in the USA on upgrading F-8 fighter aircraft , which had been suspended in June . |
| 22 | Casualty figures released by the US Defence Department on Jan. 9 stated that 220 Panamanian civilians and 314 members of the FDP had been killed and 124 FDP members wounded . |
| 23 | In fact , however , the dialectical interplay of the two means that real productive forces only manifest themselves in forms dictated by real social relations . |
| 24 | The Guardian of June 20 reported that 20,000 Iraqi Kurds in a transit camp near the border in Silopi were refusing to leave for Iraq without guarantees of their safety , and the Turkish authorities reported that a further 12,200 refugees from Iraq were still accommodated in other camps inside Turkey . |