Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [num] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 2 | In one particular alone , the Scott Report disclosed that 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition had been delivered in fourteen months , which was totally inconsistent with the 15 per cent claim . |
| 3 | Preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Culture suggest that 180 billion roubles will be required to enact the programme . |
| 4 | For illustrative purposes , I suggest that two specific groups should be made eligible for these capital grants — those aged twenty , on the threshold of independence , and those at forty-five , the ideal time for career reassessment and a possible fresh start . |
| 5 | The House will know that 46 British inspectors have been involved in the process of inspection within Iraq . |
| 6 | Before Tet , Vietnam could be a place where an unpleasant war was being fought , some might even know that 525,000 American troops were stationed in the country , that the United States was convulsed by the issue , but as the NLF penetrated the US embassy in Saigon , and as its troops had to be beaten out , one by one , millions of people , and hundreds of thousands of western radicals were taken by the idea that the emperor might be dangerous , was dangerous , but had no clothes . |
| 7 | Did you know that 30 Tory knights of shire and suburb are not standing at the election ? |
| 8 | You can easily enough slip in a clue in two quick words somewhere , but when at the end of a book you say that your detective solved the case from noticing that one briefly-stated fact , the reader will experience a sense of let-down . |
| 9 | Marshall , who gives these facts in his Rural Economy of Norfolk , supposes that three hundred acres of heathland were divided into thirty fields of ten acres each . |
| 10 | It is expected that two Czechoslovak dissidents , spanning a 20-year period , will be chosen as joint winners to emphasise the durability of the movement towards liberalisation . |
| 11 | Less than a week after announcing that thirty one coal mines were to close , the President of the Board of Trade Michael Heseltine has backtracked , and cut the closure list to ten . |
| 12 | If we take our budget-fixing example and examine it for a moment , we realise that two separate things may be going on . |
| 13 | She was irritated to find that one essential item at least was missing , and made a mental note to have someone telephone for it immediately . |
| 14 | Gathering up their equipment they marched off again , only to find that two Italian sentries had fallen in behind them . |
| 15 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 16 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In due course a hotel in Suceava had reported that two English tourists had failed to return . |
| 19 | The Humane Society of the United States has reported that two toy gun manufacturers — Ray Plastics and LNJ Toys , makers of the new Gotcha enforcer gun — test their products by firing shots into the eyes of rabbits at distances of five feet , three feet , six inches , three inches and half an inch . |
| 20 | A London daily reported that 4 million Baghdadis — nearly one-third of the country 's population — poured into the streets in what the media claimed was a solid show of support for Saddam . |
| 21 | It was officially reported that 36,000 possible offenders had surrendered by a Nov. 10 deadline imposed in August by the Supreme People 's Procuratorate . |
| 22 | It was reported that three elderly women died during the first Scud attack when they suffocated because they had failed to remove filter covers from their masks . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Last week 's leaked report revealing that five old people 's homes could close resulted in a wave of protests like this one in Woodstock yesterday.But the Director of Social Services has said that was just one piece of the jigsaw . |
| 25 | When I examined the differences between success and failure in change projects or development efforts , I found that one major difference was simply time — staying with it long enough to make it work . |
| 26 | ‘ When we decided to go into guitar manufacturer , we found that one well-known company on the West Coast was actually making its necks with a sander . |
| 27 | ‘ When we decided to go into guitar manufacturer , we found that one well-known company on the West Coast was actually making its necks with a sander . |
| 28 | Carried out in 1985 , the inquiry found that 3.8 million dwellings , or 84 per cent of the stock , were in need of expenditure totalling £18.8 billion ( An Inquiry into the Condition of Local Authority Housing Stock in England , DOE , 1988 ) . |
| 29 | In his study of Amer In his study of m the U S he found that seventy five percent of the s people who spoke Na-dene , could n't give a reason er a proper reason for passing their language on to the er children . |
| 30 | They found that 50 economic appraisals had been published , covering a wide range of topics . |