Example sentences of "[verb] that in [num] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | The Big Six , in their statement , say that in 1991 they spent 9% of auditing and accounting revenues — $477m — on settling and defending lawsuits , and repeat an estimate that the profession as a whole is currently facing $30bn in damages claims . |
2 | The latter 's relations with his Welsh neighbours can not always have been good , for the Annales Cambriæ say that in 1012 he led an expedition against St David 's . |
3 | The Home Office Research Unit found that in 1973 it was 25 per cent. , as compared with 81 per cent . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | I am pleased to report that in 1992 I was able to substantially achieve one of the objects of my Presidency , the refurbishment of the main exhibition galleries at Portland Place , making it more welcoming to members and the public and better able to put the case for architecture . |
6 | His political aims were unclear , and his closest allies believed that in 1845 he was about to betray the company , which was in a state of virtual collapse at the time of Somes 's death . |
7 | The Letter calls him king of all England and Denmark and the Norwegians and of some of the Swedes , which if genuine implies that he already claimed Olaf 's throne , and Florence of Worcester says that in 1027 he heard that some Norwegians were discontented , sent them large quantities of gold and silver , and secured an undertaking of future support . |
8 | Official records show that in 1720 he was sent as Captain in charge of a detachment of men who left India with three ships to expand British interests in Sumatra . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | We have to go back a little way to remember that in 1976 they presided over the most savage cuts ever imposed on the national health service . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | It may be thought that in 8 we have an equation which indicates ( wrongly ) that — at is a semantic constituent : |
13 | I anticipate that in 1991 we will re-visit most of these subjects and I expect that we will address several others such as skills shortages , innovation policy and education policy proposals . |
14 | Does the Prime Minister recall that in 1986 he announced the closure of DHSS resettlement centres and gave a firm promise that they would not close until alternative accommodation was available ? |
15 | A century later John Murray , the British ambassador in Constantinople , bitterly regretted that in 1774 he had not been able to act as mediator in the making of the Russo-Turkish peace of Kutchuk — Kainardji and thus gain the valuable presents from both sides which would have been his reward . |
16 | I only know that in 1990 I had to pay £20,000 or thereabouts in interest repayments alone for a business loan excluding repayment of the mortgage . |
17 | I remember that in 1970 I was actually called deranged because I drew attention to the various forms of manifest nonsense on which ‘ The Thing ’ was battening . |
18 | On retiring from Nigeria in 1955 ( constitutional changes meant that in 1954 he reassumed the title of governor-general , dormant since 1919 ) , Macpherson was chairman of the 1956 UN visiting mission to the trust territories of the Pacific . |
19 | The failure of the Prussian and German people to follow the successful example of the French in a revolution from below meant that in 1870 they were forced to accept the unification of Germany by the reactionary Junker powers . |
20 | I knew that in 1945 they could not make do on their rations . |
21 | Sarah complained that in 1990 they only spent 42 nights together — and that was a recipe for trouble . |
22 | He said that in 1975 we had a referendum in which it was suggested that it was an economic and trade rather than a political matter . |
23 | You wrote that in 1936 you bought your first painting ( still your favourite British painting ) George Stubbs 's ‘ Pumpkin with a Stable Lad ’ , immediately you saw it . |
24 | The quote from Hammond & Waterton suggests that in 1890 it was thought that a barrister umpire could preside over a valuation : to restate the proposition in modern terms , a lawyer can act as an expert . |
25 | He explained that in 1886 he was making enquiries about the possibilities of opening up the canal routes to the south and was put in touch with a syndicate in London which was proposing to improve and develop these navigations . |