Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 2 | The Highlander Lieutenant asked that one of the unlit chandeliers be raised from floor level so he could make certain there would be adequate room for his dancers ' crossed swords . |
| 3 | Scientists , publishers , students and government officials meeting last week at a colloquium organised by the research ministry agreed that poor quality produces a downward spiral of falling circulation and a further loss of contributions from respected scientists . |
| 4 | The chairman announced that one of the committee , Shelagh Godwin , of Godalming , and a former editor of the foundation 's bulletin , has had to resign , but remains a member of the council . |
| 5 | After examining a large number of hydrophilids infected with Laboulbeniales , H. W. Scheloske of Erlangen University surmised that many of these ‘ claw forms ’ actually represent abnormally developed individuals of species that produce a different ‘ growth form ’ in other places on the insect 's body ; perhaps the tarsal claws of these beetles offer less than ideal conditions for vigorous growth . |
| 6 | By the end of the inquiry the Board admitted that this had risen by a further 10 per cent . |
| 7 | The chairman of the board ruled that certain witnesses which a prisoner had requested to attend should not be called . |
| 8 | On Dec. 6 the Foreign Ministry announced that Soviet citizens would be allowed to subscribe ( in hard currency ) to foreign papers and magazines , more of which would also be available in public libraries . |
| 9 | On Feb. 15 the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that four Iraqi diplomats accused of spying on refugees had also been ordered to leave the country . |
| 10 | On June 10 the Interior Ministry announced that 2,000 detainees had been recently released , in addition to those released gradually since March . |
| 11 | By the end of the three days of what one eyewitness described as a " vigilante rampage " , the Health Ministry announced that six people were dead and 502 hospitalized , seven in a serious condition . |
| 12 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 13 | David Raffe ( 11 ) of Edinburgh University found that more than three-quarters of school leavers from sparsely populated areas were able to live at home . |
| 14 | The board found that 105 of 177 drug products sold in Canada were priced above the median international price . |
| 15 | In July , 1989 , the Daily Express reported that ex-Beatle Paul McCartney was funding a Fame-type school on Merseyside through remarks a black friend made to him about the Toxteth riots being mainly caused by police harassment . |
| 16 | A survey of 140 heads , deputies and careers teachers by a marketing consultancy found that 54 per cent thought that businesses went about recruiting school-leavers ‘ not very well ’ or ‘ very badly ’ . |
| 17 | Most Soviet citizens , however , appeared to have remained loyal to their native language in their domestic and family life , and there was little sign of the disappearance of at least the major Soviet languages , most of which were still spoken by the great majority of the nationalities in question ( the 1979 census found that 62 per cent of non-Russians were fluent in that language , but that 93 per cent of the population identified their national language as their native one ; the 1989 census found that the reported level of knowledge of Russian had actually fallen among at least two national groups , the Uzbeks and Lithuanians ) . |
| 18 | Yet the same writer lamented that some of the first students ‘ in many cases alienated the more thoughtful minds from the denomination ’ . |
| 19 | A survey by the Spastics Society during the 1987 general election found that half the polling stations surveyed were inaccessible for people with disabilities . |
| 20 | Yet a survey study of the 1983 election found that this section of the electorate was the most right-wing of all on issue questions about privatization , incentives versus equality , trade union rights , and comprehensive schools , and that over 70 per cent of them voted Conservative in the election . |
| 21 | In addition , the subcommittee proposed that all senior SAR officials should be Chinese nationals having no right of abode elsewhere . |
| 22 | The fact that Parliament used that composite phrase — ‘ dishonest appropriation ’ — in my judgment casts light on what is meant by the word ‘ appropriation . ’ |
| 23 | A recent survey by Scottish Natural Heritage found that 22 out of 26 lowland lochs were suffering from toxic algae . |
| 24 | By June 17 the police chief responsible for the Tehran section of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution ( Pasdaran ) force announced that special squads had been formed for rapid mobilization as necessary to control urban unrest . |
| 25 | When autotomy was first observed it was thought that the killer simply ripped off the tail by brute force , but closer study revealed that many lizards , especially geckos , have evolved special break-points in their tails — weak spots that fracture with great ease and make the sacrifice a simple matter . |
| 26 | On the issue of business confidence , the study revealed that economic confidence was returning , with 77 per cent of companies surveyed believing that they were well placed to lead the country out of recession . |
| 27 | Immunological characterisation revealed that most malignant cells and tissues predominantly produce urokinase type plasminogen activator rather than tissue type plasminogen activator depending on their origin . |
| 28 | When giving evidence to the PCA , the then permanent secretary to the Department agreed that that situation could not be defended , so we decided to put it right . |
| 29 | The opposition argued that any delay would disrupt local government , claiming that this was the only part of the old democracy still functioning since April . |
| 30 | WACC 's folk media programme revealed that traditional forms of communication can be harnessed for effective social change when adapted and backed by a strong motivation and social consciousness . |