Example sentences of "[num] [verb] that [adj] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test . |
| 2 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 3 | A joint CRN-CCAOD communiqué broadcast on March 30 said that free elections at municipal , legislative and presidential level would be held before Jan. 1 , 1992 , and that the army would return to barracks on Jan. 20 . |
| 4 | Surveys in 1975 and 1980 show that dependent subcontractors in household electrical goods and motor parts , experienced a 30 per cent greater fall in profits than independent small firms ( N. Sasaki 1981 p.102 and Steven 1983 p.73 ) . |
| 5 | A count made in 1971 showed that one-parent families on supplementary benefit amounted to two-thirds of all the unmarried mothers , more than half the separated mothers , one-third of the divorced and one-fifth of the widows in this country . |
| 6 | The parade of Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA managers should finally be concluded , says a report in La Repubblica , after the Milan judges interrogated Antonio Garrani , Daniele Mosca and Carlo Lombardoni last week : the three confirmed that other bribes for the supply of computers were paid to the Ministry of Justice through the administrator of a quasi-governmental agency . |
| 7 | A study of Cornwall in the early 1970s revealed that average earnings in the more rural employment office areas ( in the west or the north-east of the county ) were as much as 6 per cent below the county average , while earnings in the more urban areas ( for example , near Plymouth or Camborne — Redruth ) were 6 to 7 per cent above the county average ( Cornwall County Council 1979 ) . |
| 8 | Data from the Labour Force Survey in 1981 show that high proportions of both women and men who are divorced or separated live in the home of their own parents , although there are some differences related to both gender and social class ( as measured by housing tenure ) . |
| 9 | The group discussions reported in Appendix II showed that single women with children ( divorced , separated or widowed ) may have particular difficulty getting low-cost credit , often because they themselves are not working : so they get higher-cost credit instead ( the reasons for this are explored further in chapter 5 ) . |
| 10 | Working Paper 4 states that new patients on a list or changed clinical conditions of existing patients will bring corresponding adjustments to the drugs budget , but it is not clear whether these adjustments will have to be made within the overall regional allocation to the FPC , or whether new funds can be made available during a year in recognition of patient migration . |
| 11 | Reports on Dec. 17 suggested that Algerian proposals for the simultaneous withdrawal of US and Iraqi troops had encountered Saudi reluctance and growing Iraqi inflexibility . |
| 12 | A report in Middle East International of April 3 claimed that Palestinian casualties at demonstrations were declining , while shooting of targeted activists , often by Israeli undercover units , was increasing . |
| 13 | A statement issued in Vienna by the information bureau of the opposition Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) and reported on Dec. 16 announced that senior officers of the Republican Guard had been executed following an alleged coup . |
| 14 | Chapter 1 noted that competitive conditions in many product markets are such that they are likely to be tolerant of managerial ineffectiveness and in some substantial deviations from the profit goal will not be incompatible with enterprise survival . |
| 15 | Using LFS data , Table 7.1 shows that temporary workers in semi- and lower skilled industrial occupations are more likely to be working on this basis because they do not want permanent jobs . |
| 16 | The Norwegian Meteorological Institute published a report in early September 1989 claiming that significant quantities of acid rain falling on Europe resulted from SO2 emissions in the USA . |