Example sentences of "[vb pp] that [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In January 1990 it was disclosed that in 1976 a meltdown at Greifswald had only narrowly been averted . |
| 2 | Anyone seeing the second round of Ingle and Choi must have wondered how anyone could have decided that the Korean had won that round 5-2 . |
| 3 | Members are also reminded that from 1 January they have to have a practising certificate . |
| 4 | And , just as the conquest of Morocco had been undertaken at the turn of the century to counteract the divisive effects of " the Disaster " by giving Spaniards a new , common enterprise with which to identify , one might have expected that in 1956 Franco would resort to a military campaign to save Morocco to unite the regime forces around himself and divert attention away from domestic problems . |
| 5 | Moreover , it should not be forgotten that in 1823 Moët & Chandon purchased the Abbey of Hautvillers , along with its vineyards , and they certainly ( to their credit ) can not be accused of allowing the legend of Dom Pérignon to die . |
| 6 | Consequently , it is forecast that in 1992 our inflation rate will be below even the German average , which at the moment is 3.5 per cent . |
| 7 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 8 | On the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , it was reported that at one time dust and water were falling together , as mud , and a thickness of fifteen centimetres accumulated in only ten minutes . |
| 9 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 10 | It was reported that in 1989 North Korea had 12 concentration camps ( four more than in 1982 ) holding 152,000 prisoners undergoing forced labour and re-education . |
| 11 | It is also reported that in 10 WFS countries of Sub-Sahara Africa , the proportion overall of babies dying within the first month of life is 50 per cent higher and that post neonatal mortality is 25 per cent higher where the mother was under age 20 than where she was 20–29 at the time of the birth . |
| 12 | It was reported that in 1985 and 1986 , objection was taken by the Lord Chancellor to Lord Justice Brown-Wilkinson 's participation in public debates as a result of which he did not appear . |
| 13 | It can be calculated that during 1979 , 18 000 women will attend clinics in England suffering from chlamydial infection , which they have no hope of getting diagnosed and therefore treated . |
| 14 | It has been calculated that in 1922 an average of 38 minutes would be spent on going to work and coming back , with a working day of between 14 and 15 hours in the warmer months . |
| 15 | Westergaard and Resler have calculated that in 1913–14 men in full-time non-manual employment earned 142% of the average male wage , male manual workers 88% . |
| 16 | They had calculated that in one particular three-month period Charles had had fifteen engagements , Princess Anne had carried out fifty-six , Prince Philip , forty-five , and the Queen , twenty-eight . |
| 17 | So I 've altered that to twelve ninety four and there 's a twenty eight , |
| 18 | Formerly esquire of the body to Henry the Sixth , Vaughan had become treasurer of the chamber to Edward the Fourth , by whom he was so highly regarded that in 1471 he had been appointed chamberlain to the then one-year-old Prince Edward . |
| 19 | The Doctor had explained that in 1969 a man had walked on the moon ; that unmanned space flights to other stars had been sent out in the 1970s and towards the end of the twentieth century manned space flights had visited other planets in the solar system . |
| 20 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
| 21 | It was decided that about one thousand was right , three hundred to storm the castle itself and the remainder to seal off the approaches thereto for long enough to allow the raiders to achieve their ends and retire back across the ford , it was to be hoped with Edward Balliol dead or alive . |
| 22 | Although Keating , as Treasurer , was responsible for much of the current economic position — it was widely accepted that in 1987 he had allowed the economy to overheat , and had been forced to use high interest rates to cool it , thereby exacerbating the impact of the world recession — he was also widely perceived as the only Cabinet member with the experience and stature to provide an alternative to the leadership of Hawke . |
| 23 | Black & Decker have revealed that in 1989 , about 20 per cent of all their portable power drills sold in Britain were cordless . |
| 24 | It is said that on one occasion Prince Napoleon accused the Emperor of having inherited ‘ nothing of the Great Emperor ’ , to which Napoleon III replied ‘ Yes , the family ’ . |
| 25 | Christie 's critics had said that at 32 he was too old to beat the best sprinters in the world . |
| 26 | The Prime Minister could not have said that between 1987 and April 1991 — the four years when child benefit was frozen . |
| 27 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 28 | It is said that in 1789 he was introduced to George III by a wealthy cousin , also called John Bridge , who shared the monarch 's interest in farming . |
| 29 | Thus Haemig has argued that between 1486 and 1502 , the great-tailed grackle ( Quiscalus mexicanus ) was introduced from its original home in Veracruz to the Valley of Mexico by the Aztec Emperor , Auitzotl . |
| 30 | Some historians , most notably Nicholas Tyacke , have argued that between 1560 and 1625 this doctrine was accepted unquestioningly by all the leading officials , theologians , and teachers of the Elizabethan church . |