Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] that [adj] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subodh Kant Sahay , Minister of State for Home Affairs , in a statement on Jan. 2 to the Indian parliament announced that 890 people had been killed and nearly 4,000 injured in 15 weeks of Hindu-Moslem riots triggered by Hindu agitation around the disputed sacred site where a mosque currently stood in Ayodhya , Uttar Pradesh . |
| 2 | Lack of internal capital and entrepreneurial experience mean that rural people are often not able to take advantage of such opportunities . |
| 3 | By the end of the three days of what one eyewitness described as a " vigilante rampage " , the Health Ministry announced that six people were dead and 502 hospitalized , seven in a serious condition . |
| 4 | One may remark that it is common experience to find that conscientious people who have a job to do that is too much for them ( like writing a book ) turn in their uncertainty to doing a succession of easier jobs instead ( like answering their mail , drawing up syllabuses , or rationalising office organisation ) . |
| 5 | Litzi Miller champion trainer says that some people do n't even bet they'e just happy to see their dog win |
| 6 | In 1991 , an Arthur Andersen survey on absenteeism estimated that some 1m employees are absent from work every day and that the problem costs industry over £6bn a year . |
| 7 | Quite clearly it was for me to initiate action to ensure that all aircraft of that type were checked for similar fractures at the earliest possible moment , but the responsibility for ordering such an inspection lies with the airworthiness authorities of the States in which the aircraft were registered and not with the accident investigation authorities . |
| 8 | Kenya administrators also discovered the ‘ importance and usefulness of [ cattle ] sales as a meeting place for the transaction of official business ’ , but except in wartime , when the army needed meat , veterinary quarantines imposed in response to pressure from representatives of the European livestock industry meant that such sales were not a prominent feature of life in Kenya Masai District . |
| 9 | Empirical research indicates that young people perceive non-drinkers lacking in these qualities . |
| 10 | Research indicates that ageing people continue to be sexually active , and that age itself does not undermine either the need or the capacity for sexual activity . |
| 11 | One EC study predicts that another 20% of Europe 's defence-sector jobs will disappear over the next two or three years . |
| 12 | A second study suggests that commercially-important species , including herring , shrimp , mussels , clams and rockfish have all suffered from the oil spill , presenting a " risk that they may not respond to conventional management actions for decades " . |
| 13 | The DHSS 's Cohort Study suggests that those people who suffered recurrent unemployment in the year after registration were no more likely to have become unemployed initially because of a temporary job coming to an end . |
| 14 | In a report published today the Association claims that most people can get all the vitamins they need from a healthy diet . |
| 15 | Recent scientific research suggests that daily fish oil can help to maintain a healthy heart , and circulation . |
| 16 | keith richardson says that most people thought Gloucester were going to lose but it was a great win … they looked like a different side and played exceptionally well and were lifted by the supporters |
| 17 | The price of justice THERE are so many maladministrations of justice exposed by successful appeals in the law courts that many people wonder what is the cause . |
| 18 | Yeandle 's ( 1984 ) study of the strategies which women use to combine paid work and domestic work emphasizes that female kin are a common and reliable source of assistance which enables women to combine the two . |
| 19 | In 1990 , when Chile returned to civilian rule , The National Commission for Truth and Reconciliation confirmed that 957 people had ‘ disappeared ’ under military rule , the majority of them between 1973 and 1978 . |
| 20 | Norman Tebbit 's advice to the unemployed to ‘ get on their bikes ’ to look for work implied that many people were voluntarily unemployed and this statement was probably symptomatic of the government 's whole approach to unemployment . |
| 21 | It may be that growing wealth meant that more people came to have access to modern contraceptive techniques . |
| 22 | A report in September 1989 by a parliamentary committee asserted that 5,877 people had disappeared in political circumstances in the past nine years and that another 2,346 had died in unexplained circumstances . |
| 23 | In an ironic twist , the FDA estimates that 98 percent of carcinogens found in food are naturally occurring . |
| 24 | A. Our experience shows that many people are looking at the possibilities of working in this area and , therefore , with rules of supply and demand being what they are , a language ability is almost essential . |
| 25 | It does n't take too much imagination to guess that this means ‘ draw a circle centred at x = 10.5 , y = 24.75 , and of radius 3.9 , in whatever units we happen to be using at the moment ’ . |
| 26 | Accounts of the emergence first of retirement and then of early retirement suggest that older people and , it must be said , particularly older men , have in fact been used as a reserve army of labour , to be tapped when labour is in short supply and to be shed when demand falls ( Graebner , 1980 ; Phillipson , 1982 ; Walker , 1985b ) . |
| 27 | Simple denial — refusal to accept that any staff have problems with alcohol or drugs or other forms of addictive disease . |
| 28 | In all the Group estimated that 300,000 people had served prison sentences of two or more years in East Germany since 1945 . |
| 29 | A report to the meeting says that 24 people , living in 14 properties near the plant , had signed a petition strongly objecting to the proposal . |
| 30 | Provisional figures yesterday from the Department of Transport showed that 4,274 people were killed in 1992 — 6 per cent fewer than in 1991 . |