Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chair of the US House of Representatives banking committee stated on Feb. 3 that investigations revealed that 13 US firms had knowingly or unknowingly participated in the Iraqi nuclear weapons programme prior to the invasion of Kuwait , despite an administration report in autumn 1991 to the contrary . |
| 2 | On Jan. 30 , the US authorities revealed that two members of a Cuban family were wounded by Cuban security forces while attempting to flee to the US naval base at Guantánamo Bay . |
| 3 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 4 | Experts say that two glasses of red wine a day — taken with meals — helps prevent heart disease . |
| 5 | The next day the Irish Times reported that 711 ex-workers of Raybestos Manhattan in New Jersey in the US were sueing the company and its asbestos supplier , Johns Manville , for $2 million each in workers ' compensation and punitive damages awards . |
| 6 | The latest losses mean that 305,344 manufacturing workers have been made redundant by more than 3,000 firms since February 1991 . |
| 7 | Although the Temple was destroyed two thousand years ago , Jews hope that one day the Messiah will come , the Temple will be rebuilt , and Jews will be spiritually pure again . |
| 8 | FAITHFUL readers know that four years ago we wagered a magnum of bubbly against the proposed restaurant in the former TSB premises in Stanhope having a Michelin star by 1990 . |
| 9 | ‘ You encourage your readers to believe that one day their prince will come . ’ |
| 10 | Trainers lost that eighty quid |
| 11 | According to the Jerusalem Post of Sept. 28 , pro-Israel lobbyists said that 62 senators had undertaken to endorse the guarantees in the event of a vote . |
| 12 | Eyewitness accounts from Western journalists said that 200 troops fired on the unarmed crowd for several minutes before moving in to beat and arrest the survivors . |
| 13 | By 1982 , the Norwegians calculated that 2,000 trout fisheries had been lost , while 5,000 lakes across some 33,000 km² ; had turned acid , 1,750 of them losing all their fish . |
| 14 | The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors estimated that 600,000 acres had been blighted , including large areas of Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 15 | VAT returns show that 9,581 individuals reclaimed the tax in 1991 having completed a genuine , hands-on self-build project . |
| 16 | Reformers believed that one way of preventing these marriages was to provide clubs with attractive and organized recreational facilities in the hope that ‘ the girl who has her clubs will not need the idle companionship of lads ’ . |
| 17 | Parents hope that two others , Clare Donaghy and Sarah Quinn will also be sent there soon . |
| 18 | Such detachment models predict that two types of passive margin will be produced by continental rupture . |
| 19 | Consumption externalities imply that one person 's decisions affect another consumer 's utility directly , as when one person 's garden gives pleasure to the neighbours . |
| 20 | Some of the judges thought that one effect of rule 3(7) was to abolish the distinction , so far as standing was concerned , between mandamus on the one hand , and certiorari and prohibition on the other ; but at least two of their Lordships were less certain on this point . |
| 21 | The intelligence source which had originally tipped off West German police about the group 's activities claimed that five bombs had been made . |
| 22 | However , it sprang to prominence last year when an inventory of its contents revealed that 325 artworks had gone missing . |
| 23 | In the same period , figures produced by the Council for Mortgage Lenders show that 221,900 mortgages ( 2.3 per cent of the outstanding stock ) were more than six months in arrears , compared with 109,370 ( 1.2 per cent of the outstanding stock ) a year earlier , and that 36,610 dwellings were repossessed ( 0.4 per cent of the outstanding stock of mortgages ) , more than double the number recorded a year earlier . |
| 24 | Our figures for oral carcinoma in south east Scotland over the past 10 years show that 456 patients presented with these tumours ; the mean age at presentation was 63.8 years for men and 68.2 years for women . |
| 25 | By June 22 UN military observers stated that 16,642 contras had been disbanded , the figure rising to an estimated 19,197 by June 26 . |
| 26 | The second raid , in which Turkish officials claimed that 10 PKK members were killed , was in retaliation for a PKK cross-border raid on May 25 near the village of Uzumlu , Hakkari province , in which 14 Turkish soldiers had been killed . |
| 27 | Enterprises began to close for lack of fuel or materials , and officials warned that 35,000 people could be laid off work by the end of the month . |
| 28 | For owner-occupiers , on the other hand , the need to save for a deposit and other expenses , together with the relatively large mortgage payments in the early years means that two incomes are necessary for an extended period and therefore childbearing will be delayed . |
| 29 | UN officials said that 100,000 women and children demonstrated for peace in the north of Mogadishu on March 8 . |
| 30 | Sir James McKinnon has told the Monopolies and Mergers Commission that one part should deal with transport and storage and the other with trading . |