Example sentences of "[num] [pers pn] was [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1933 it was suggested that Mosley should visit the new German leader , Adolf Hitler , and discuss with him the future of Fascism in Britain . |
| 2 | On March 12 it was announced that Egypt and Iran had each decided to set up an " interests office " in the other 's capital " as a first step towards the restoration of full diplomatic relations between the two countries " , according to Arab Republic of Egypt radio . |
| 3 | On Jan. 30 it was reported that Hernando de Soto , a key adviser and personal representative of Fujimori , had resigned , alleging that officials in coca-growing areas were co-operating with drug traffickers . |
| 4 | On Sept. 2 it was announced that Algeria would once again attempt to find a " lasting political solution " to the Tuareg question through diplomatic discussions with its neighbours . |
| 5 | On August the 12th 1991 it was feared that Brian Waites might not live , let alone play golf ever again . |
| 6 | On Nov. 7 it was announced that Lithuania and Bulgaria had signed a trade and most-favoured nation treaty in Sofia . |
| 7 | In November 1898 it was said that effigies representing ‘ Hooliganism ’ were burned on Guy Fawkes Night , although the new folk devil was destined for even more global notoriety . |
| 8 | On April 26 it was announced that Tesfaye Dinka , Deputy Prime Minister in charge of Foreign Affairs and a US-trained economist , had been made Prime Minister ( a post vacant since November 1989 ) , with a brief to form a new Cabinet composed of individuals " who can stand up for Ethiopian unity " . |
| 9 | On May 26 it was announced that Vladimir , Metropolitan of Rostov and Novocherkassk had been elected new head of the UOC . |
| 10 | On Feb. 26 it was reported that Andras Galszecsy had resigned as Minister without Portfolio in charge of national security affairs . |
| 11 | In Perkins v Jeffrey [ 1915 ] , 5 KB 702 it was said that evidence could be called to prove a similar course of conduct towards other females where a defence of accident or mistake is put forward . |
| 12 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 13 | On 1 July 1941 it was announced that Spain 's position was of " moral belligerence " . |
| 14 | On March 21 it was announced that members of the armed forces who had left for political reasons after June 1978 were to be reinstated . |
| 15 | On July 21 it was announced that Ghozali had been appointed Algerian ambassador to Paris [ see also below ] . |
| 16 | At the Essex Forest Eyre of 1277 it was presented that Alexander Not of Havering had entered the Abbess of Barking 's wood and felled an oak . |
| 17 | On Oct. 31 it was announced that Otto Schily , a leading member of the moderate Realos , was leaving and joining the SPD . |
| 18 | On March 31 it was reported that US Secretary of State James Baker had sent a letter to Savimbi demanding a full explanation of the charges made by N'Zau Puna and Fernandes . |
| 19 | On Nov. 18 it was revealed that Bennett was Bush 's choice to succeed Lee Atwater as Republican Party chairman in January 1991 . |
| 20 | On June 18 it was reported that Armenia had called up reservists aged under 35 , and a one-month state of emergency was declared in Nagorny Karabakh . |
| 21 | In the leadership elections scheduled for mid-February 1992 it was expected that Peres would be challenged by Rabin . |
| 22 | By 1884 it was announced that Murchison 's interpretation of a simple succession of strata was untenable . |
| 23 | By May 1913 it was expected that Emmeline Pankhurst would die from hunger and thirst strikes . |
| 24 | However , in Family Housing Association v Jones [ 1990 ] 1 WLR 779 it was held that occupants of property granted to them as homeless persons were secure tenants . |
| 25 | On July 17 it was decreed that foreigners of Albanian nationality and origin should " upon their request be granted Albanian nationality , maintaining or not the nationality of their own state " . |
| 26 | On Nov. 17 it was admitted that Vukovar had fallen to JNA forces , after an 86-day seige . |
| 27 | On April 17 it was reported that Dudayev and the deputy C.-in-C. of CIS armed forces , Col.-Gen . |
| 28 | On Nov. 5 it was reported that Israel 's Supreme Court had rejected a petition by Mordechai Vananu to be allowed to clarify events surrounding his detention . |
| 29 | In Chapter 4 it was demonstrated that spot and debt can be used to replicate a futures contract . |
| 30 | On March 4 it was announced that Chatichai 's financial situation was also under investigation . |