Example sentences of "[vb past] that [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the hon. Gentleman reads the speech by the Secretary of State 's predecessor , he will find that he promised that five places would be set aside to be decided by the local authorities . |
| 2 | Matthew Clarke , QC , for TV Licensing , part of the Post Office , maintained that two officers who had called at Mr Guest 's house had genuinely believed that they had seen a flickering light . |
| 3 | Researchers who spoke to hospital general managers and health authority planning departments found that 41 hospitals in England were to go by 1997 , rising to 45 by the turn of the century . |
| 4 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that five years after divorce in four-fifths of the 71 families in the study the children had one parent with a new partner and at least one-third had two parents with new partners . |
| 5 | In his survey of all incidents involving a solitary offender recorded by the police as rapes or attempted rapes between 1972 and 1976 in six English counties , he found that 204 men were arrested for rape or attempted rape . |
| 6 | This proportion of one company doing sophisticated scanning out of a sample of seven companies is in line with the US study by Fahey & King ( 1977 ) which found that two companies out of a sample of 12 maintained separate environmental-scanning units . |
| 7 | When I arrived ten minutes before her at one stop ( advance means a few minutes ahead as well as two months ) I found that two ladies in wheelchairs had positioned themselves at the foot of the stairs and were pleading with everyone to let them stay and shake hands with Mrs Thatcher . |
| 8 | Defending champions Essex found that two wins and 14 rubbers were insufficient to prevent them suffering relegation along with Middlesex . |
| 9 | The Cameron Report found that four policemen were injured during the clashes in Duke Street and a further seven during the later clashes at the Diamond and on the fringes of the Bogside . |
| 10 | Professor Griffiths , in a study of the committee stages of bills covering the period 1967–71 found that 907 amendments were moved by ministers , of which 906 were carried . |
| 11 | The judge found that six members of the management committee , including the appellant and the defendant , resolved to dismiss the plaintiff . |
| 12 | He found that six lakes were fishless , including five lochs in the Galloway area , 24 lakes were acidified in Scotland , Cumbria , Wales and Southern England , 37 lakes were vulnerable in all the above areas , and ten waters showed fish loss , in particular the River Esk in Cumbria and the River Forth in Scotland . |
| 13 | Slater and Fisher found that 4.1 items were consulted and 2.4 were considered useful . |
| 14 | The FoE- Observer tapwater survey found that 84 areas had drinking water contaminated with trihalomethanes beyond the EC limit of 100 ug/litre , including Broxbourne , Enfield , Epping Forest and Haringey in north London , most of Devon and a large tract of the Midlands from Lincoln to Montgomery . |
| 15 | Pieda 's report found that 56,000 jobs outside the Scotch whisky industry depend on the jobs of 15,000 employed directly by the big Scotch concerns . |
| 16 | In response to the pills question , one pupil found that 50 pills weighed 1 g and then added lots of 50 pills until 250 was reached . |
| 17 | While Palermo ( 1973 ) , for example , found that four-to five-year-olds responded appropriately to more nearly all the time , but to less only 39 per cent of the time , an earlier study by Griffiths , Shantz and Sigel ( 1967 ) reported that children of that age understood both more and less almost equally well ( 70 per cent and 65 per cent ) . |
| 18 | Researchers for the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review found that three quarters of local authority tenants , half the private tenants and two-fifths of mortgage borrowers failed to go to court . |
| 19 | During the May to August breeding season , she found that three quarters of perch nests along a 150-metre-long stretch of the stream were parasitised by schools of minnows ; during the same period , she only once saw a minnow laying its eggs away from a perch nest . |
| 20 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |
| 21 | Kate Young found that three classes had developed on the basis of wealth , land ownership and relation to the means of production . |
| 22 | A survey among the group 's 16 founder properties found that 4,000 conferences were booked in 1990 , attracting 90,000 delegates . |
| 23 | With [ 3 H ] omeprazole as a probe for H + , K + -ATPase , we found that HGT-1 cells exhibited a significant degree of specific [ 3 H ] omeprazole binding , which increased 100% in the presence of histamine . |
| 24 | He found that 600 cartons had been set aside ready for him . |
| 25 | Fresh elections here would be contested on Oct. 11 , and the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 9 reported that 26 candidates had come forward , including Faris Buwayz , who had resigned as Minister of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs in late August in protest at the elections . |
| 26 | On Jan. 27 Radio Rwanda reported that 120 rebels had been killed in fighting in the Kinigi region . |
| 27 | On Nov. 29 the Defence Minister , Gen. Iván Jiménez Sánchez , reported that 142 civilians and 27 members of the armed forces had been killed . |
| 28 | John Leland [ q.v. ] , visiting Malmesbury in the early 1540s , reported that 3,000 cloths were being made there every year . |
| 29 | It was in 1842 that the Kinnaird Commission , appointed to enquire into children 's employment , reported that 97 children and young persons were engaged in mineral dressing activities at the Church Coniston Mine . |
| 30 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |