Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a case which is causing the Bar much embarrassment , Lord Justice Watkins and Mr Justice Garland were told that six barristers followed Sir Ian , while 11 decided to stay with Mr John Samuels , QC , who was in charge of chambers administration . |
| 2 | In the 70s , when we were hearing a lot about sexual research , we were told that 14 per cent of women managed it . |
| 3 | Now what I 'm saying to you is that there 's a big question mark as far as Goodey er report is concerned and they can talk about er the surpluses , they can talk about the trustees , but there 's no majority as far as the employees are concerned and this was the question mark that we we were saying that one of the reasons why they were saying you know that the employee should be in the minority because in the end paragraph of the summing up of the Goodey report that states quite clearly that all the responsibility and all the but the employer , now you yourself has said that er as far as the schemes and we 're talking of something in the region of a hundred and twenty eight thousand . |
| 4 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 5 | After a pause , she said , ‘ And you were hoping that one day she 'd give up seeing men altogether and have a steady relationship with you ? ’ |
| 6 | It is these roles and how they were established that 1 shall describe in this chapter . |
| 7 | It was calculated that 170 per cent more on books and other educational materials was spent on grammar than on secondary-modern pupils . |
| 8 | It was calculated that 65,000 of the country 's registered 76,000 road vehicles were used by or for tourists . |
| 9 | It was calculated that 80 per cent of patients would need to be moved between wards to achieve sectorization . |
| 10 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 11 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 12 | The DES was suggesting that 30,000 places could be used for diversification . |
| 13 | At an early stage it was realised that one factor which can inhibit labour mobility is a lack of mutual understanding of qualification systems between member states . |
| 14 | Several of these were also in packages managed by other people and it was realised that two new modules would be required . |
| 15 | No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected . |
| 16 | It was recommended that three acres of this ground should be purchased . |
| 17 | It was reported that one of the two attackers had been wounded while escaping . |
| 18 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 19 | The most notorious was in 1984 when it was reported that two detained patients had been beaten to death by staff of Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital . |
| 20 | On May 30 , it was reported that two of the missing witnesses in the trial had been kidnapped and smuggled to Zambia where one of them , Gabriel Pelo Mekgwe , was being held by ANC activists , and the other , Katiza Cebekhulu , was in prison . |
| 21 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 22 | In August 1989 it was reported that 13,600 people in Dumfries and Galloway had been supplied with water containing up to 1,000 times the EC limit for aluminium , starting in March 1989 . |
| 23 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 24 | It was reported that four people were killed . |
| 25 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 26 | On Nov. 16 Castro announced that Cuba was entering " the bicycle age " in response to the shortfalls , and it was reported that 750,000 bicycles had been ordered from China . |
| 27 | By the end of June it was reported that 3,800,000 voters had registered , out of approximately 10,000,000 people entitled to do so . |
| 28 | On the same day it was reported that 40 Liberian rebels and one Sierra Leonean soldier had been killed in fighting in southern Sierra Leone . |
| 29 | On Oct. 23 it was reported that 40 people had been arrested in the previous 24 hours , and that some 250 arrests had been made in the previous two weeks , mostly of people said to be linked to the banned Islamic Salvation Front ( FIS ) . |
| 30 | The YSP in late January approved what was described as the completion of the final stage of the local elections , but on April 13 it was reported that thousands had demonstrated in Aden to protest over the defeat of the capital 's mayor , Naji Othman , in what was described as a delayed election there which had enabled the YSP leadership to secure the return of its own preferred candidate . |