Example sentences of "[verb] that on [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 2 | We found that on two occasions it was unable to copy a large file across 5 floppy discs . |
| 3 | On 6 February 1945 Himmler 's deputy , Berger , reported that on 30 January all the men commanded by Domanov had enthusiastically sworn loyalty to Hitler ( for a more detailed record of the Cossacks ' relations with Himmler , see Appendix II ) . |
| 4 | ‘ I write to confirm that on 5 October 1989 you were represented at the hearing to oppose the plaintiff being granted an injunction preventing you from selling the property . |
| 5 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
| 6 | Pete says that on one flight recently he was up in the air for nine hours so you have to take food and drink with you to keep going … in this country survival is not a problem but it can be hard when you 're flying across deserts and things like that |
| 7 | A handwritten memo in the Public Record Office says that on 30 October Mayne was ordered to leave the railway alone and concentrate on destroying petrol supplies . |
| 8 | Can the right hon. Gentleman confirm that on 6 March 1991 , in answer to question 40 , Rear Admiral Pirnie said that Britain could maintain a continuous patrol with three Trident submarines , and that with one submarine in refit we could still maintain a continuous patrol with only two submarines ? |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | We have seen that on 13 June the Court of Appeal had decided in Heaton 's case that the Transport and General Workers ' Union was not accountable for the action of its shop stewards . |
| 11 | For simplicity , imagine that on one island the price of the good has not risen at all . |
| 12 | We will also assume that on 1 April the money market rate of interest is 10 per cent and the long-gilt future is trading at 91–21 , i.e. 91.66 ( per 100 nominal ) . |
| 13 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 14 | General Roberts stated that on 6 May a unit of the ROK army had advanced north of the 38th parallel to a depth of 2.5 miles ( 4 km ) and had attacked several settlements . |
| 15 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that on 15 May 1983 he said : ’ We want out of the Common Market ? ’ |
| 16 | In a fiery encounter , he claimed that on five occasions his players were grabbed by the testicles and , on more than one occasion , were spat on by their opponents . |
| 17 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
| 18 | Marc Bloch showed that on two estates in the heart of northern France there were in the ninth century only twenty-five servi ( slaves or serfs ) out of 278 householders ; whereas at the end of the twelfth century all but a handful of the population of these villages were serfs ; none slaves . |
| 19 | So these things came to an end , I recall that on one occasion I was offered the eye of a sheep that had been cooked on a vast platter . |
| 20 | Peter Bourne reveals that on 16 October 1959 Camilo Cienfuegos ( who disappeared in a still unexplained air accident only ten days later ) was interviewed at the Havana Riviera Hotel by Alexander Alekseev , a KGB official who quickly developed an excellent rapport with Castro and played an extremely important role in the development of relations between Cuba and the Soviet Union . |
| 21 | The discussion began by noting that on 15 May " this IIQ " had sent a signal to Marshal Tito suggesting the hand-over to him of " approximately 200,000 Jugoslav nationals who were serving in German Armed Forces and who had surrendered in Austria " . |
| 22 | Mr Sanchez recalls that on one occasion , Mr Keith Richards , a musician once fond of exotic medication , was so vexed by his hound Caesar 's nocturnal barking that he administered him with a soporific known colloquially as a ‘ mandie ’ . |
| 23 | And anyway I 'm going to leave that on one side now because it 's more erm a problem to reconciling Mill 's views about liberty with his views about a proper government rather than directly about governments , so I 'm just going to note that and move on now . |
| 24 | It is not clear when his experiments began , but an affidavit made out by Sadler and his assistant Guy Green states that on 27 July 1756 they printed 1,200 earthenware tiles of different patterns in six hours , and that the process had taken upwards of seven years to perfect . |
| 25 | It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence . |
| 26 | Furthermore , the affidavit sworn on 24 May 1990 of Mr. Richard Small , the defendant 's counsel at the trial , deposes that on 29 July 1982 the Director of Public Prosecutions of Jamaica issued to all Crown counsel and clerks of the court a memorandum which stated : |
| 27 | Does the Secretary of State for Scotland remember that on 16 March , in an interview published in The Press and Journal ( Aberdeen ) , he said that the option for trust status existed if the local will were in favour ? |
| 28 | The court heard that on 10 April last year , with intent to defraud the Sun Alliance Insurance Group , the two men started a blaze which caused an explosion and destroyed the house at Pilton Drive North , Edinburgh . |
| 29 | The inquest heard that on 30 August , 1988 , the security forces had become aware of a threat to the life of a former Ulster Defence Regiment soldier , and the shoot-out had been a result of the actions taken by the security forces because of the threat . |
| 30 | Suppose that on 15 January , the 1 month and 2-month rates were the same at 9.25 per cent ; i.e. , the yield curve was flat over this range and expected to remain flat , so that the l-month rate starting in one month 's time is also expected to be 9.25 per cent . |