Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] that [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Interior Minister Larbi Belkheir said on March 12 that 6,786 people interned in January and February were being held in five camps in the Sahara . |
| 2 | Earlier , Chamorro had resisted pressure to dismiss Ortega after the army admitted on Jan. 2 that four of its officers had stolen 28 Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles from army stockpiles in October and had shipped them to guerrillas in El Salvador . |
| 3 | The Israeli Defence Ministry announced on Jan. 2 that 12 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza strip were to be deported because of their involvement in " attacks on Israeli soldiers and local Arab residents " . |
| 4 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 5 | SPK , the SOC news agency , reported on Jan. 30 that 144 prisoners — 24 political detainees and 120 POWs — had been released the previous day . |
| 6 | President Roh Tae Woo announced on Jan. 10 that two rounds of elections for mayors and provincial governors due to be held in mid-1992 would be postponed indefinitely . |
| 7 | Khumalo , who was a leader of the Inkatha Youth Brigade until March 1991 , claimed at a news conference on Jan. 10 that 200 Inkatha activists had received massive financial aid as well as military training and political instruction from the SADF . |
| 8 | Detentions of FIS activists and supporters had meanwhile begun , with the FIS claiming on Jan. 17 that 500 people had been detained as they attended Friday prayers . |
| 9 | A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security announced on Jan. 18 that 573 people arrested for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in April-June 1989 had recently been released from prison . |
| 10 | It had announced on Jan. 6 that such an agreement would be signed before the end of the month , following a decision by South Korean President Roh Tae Woo and US President Bush to cancel the annual " Team Spirit " military exercises [ see p. 38713 ] . |
| 11 | In the area of taxation it had been established by the time of Edward I that direct taxes could only be levied with the consent of Parliament . |
| 12 | The war took a potentially catastrophic environmental turn when it was revealed on Jan. 25 that huge quantities of oil were pouring into the Gulf . |
| 13 | The Exxon corporation admitted on Jan. 3 that 500,000 gallons of heating oil had been spilled into New York harbour after a pipeline was hit by an Exxon-owned vessel on Jan. 1 . |
| 14 | The official Tass news agency announced on Jan. 1 that Soviet troops would henceforth only serve in the Transcaucasus on a voluntary basis . |
| 15 | Although opposition parties , including the True Path Party ( TPP ) , condemned Soviet action in Azerbaijan , Özal stressed on Jan. 27 that any Turkish assistance to Azeris living in Azerbaijan would have to be with the consent of the Soviet Union . |
| 16 | On Jan. 9 , 1990 , the US administration announced its support for the restoration of World Bank loans to China which met " basic human needs " ; the International Herald Tribune reported on Jan. 13 that this covered about $2,000 million of the $7,000 million sought by the World Bank . |
| 17 | It was reported on Jan. 8 that former federal judge Frederick B. Lacy , the court-appointed independent administrator assigned to clean up the notoriously corrupt Teamsters union ( International Brotherhood of Teamsters , Chauffeurs , Warehousemen and Helpers of America ) , had banned one of the union 's vice-presidents , T. R. " Teddy " Cozza , for having knowingly associated with figures involved in organized crime . |
| 18 | The Reuters news agency reported on Jan. 8 that three members of the banned People 's Party of Brunei ( the main driving force behind the 1962 rebellion ) had been detained by the Brunei authorities in March 1989 after returning from exile . |
| 19 | The EC announced on Jan. 15 that all CIS members had accepted EC guidelines for recognition [ see p. 38685 ] and were therefore officially accepted by the EC as independent states . |
| 20 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said after talks with Bush in the USA on March 21-22 that both men and the other EC leaders all wanted an agreement by the end of April . |
| 21 | Tension along the 38th parallel had been serious for some months : General Hodge informed the joint chiefs of staff in January 1948 that both the south Korean police and north Korean border guards were engaged in sporadic attacks on one another . |
| 22 | The Rutland jurors swore on 7 December 1299 that all the vills and lands outside the bounds they then set out had been afforested in the time of King John . |
| 23 | Austria was so totally defeated by Prussia at the battle of Sadowa in July 1866 that any attempt at mediation by France would have been rejected out of hand at Berlin , where it was known that such mediation would be a paper exercise with no military back-up . |
| 24 | The South Korean police announced on Aug. 22 that 48 people , including 10 soldiers , had been arrested for planning to overthrow the government . |
| 25 | Eduardo Fernández , the secretary-general of COPEI ( two of whose members had joined a " Cabinet of national unity " on March 10 — see pp. 38809-10 ) , warned on May 12 that such a reduction in the presidential term would create the danger of another military coup attempt like that of February [ see pp. 38759-60 ] . |
| 26 | Honduras denied on Sept. 30 that Honduran aircraft had attacked Nicaraguan territory earlier that day . |
| 27 | Saddam Hussein proposed on Aug. 12 that all Middle Eastern occupation issues , or " issues that have been depicted as occupation " , should be resolved according to one set of UN Security Council principles . |
| 28 | In a sharply contrasting assessment , US Treasury Nicholas Brady argued on Sept. 22 that lower interest rates encouraged increases in investment , productivity and living standards , adding that " when interest rates remain high for whatever reason , the returns on investment stay sterile in the banking system " . |
| 29 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
| 30 | The Hungarian government issued a warning in February 1991 that all agreements and contracts with the Soviet Union were at companies ' own risk and that no government loans would be available . |