Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] that [num] [noun] " 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 | On June 10 the Interior Ministry announced that 2,000 detainees had been recently released , in addition to those released gradually since March . |
| 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 | Also on April 23 the Netherlands Foreign Ministry announced that three journalists and a trade attaché at the Russian embassy in The Hague had been asked to leave the country a month earlier . |
| 5 | After the first ballot , Prime Minister Casimir Oye Mba announced that 58 deputies had been declared duly elected , of whom 36 represented the PDG . |
| 6 | The Department admitted that seven questions in the original specimen were ‘ too difficult ’ . |
| 7 | To many a caddie 's relief , in the 1930s the Royal & Ancient Golf Club ruled that fourteen clubs were the maximum , and at the 1939 British Open at St Andrews many a caddie was seen burrowing into his player 's bag before tee-off to check the requisite number of clubs . |
| 8 | The Reagan administration ruled that two films , produced by the Canadian National Film Board that portrayed the effects of acid rain on the country 's lakes and forests should begin with a warning that they are the opinion of a foreign agency and do not please the US government . |
| 9 | Researchers for the Lord Chancellor 's Civil Justice Review found that three quarters of local authority tenants , half the private tenants and two-fifths of mortgage borrowers failed to go to court . |
| 10 | The study reported that one by-product of representation is that the tribunal tends to scrutinize other cases more carefully . |
| 11 | In May 1989 the Turkish Human Rights Association claimed that 171 prisoners had died from torture in police custody between 1980 and 1986 . |
| 12 | However , Dr. Male said research showed that 200 metres away from lines the fields were extremely low . |
| 13 | This research showed that one group of bronzes had very similar lead isotope ratios to the Benue Rift ores , while others had isotope ratios which , although different to the ores , could result from Benue Rift material being mixed with another ( and geologically younger ) source . |
| 14 | This in essence meant that one digit in a sequence ( usually 9 or Z ) was used solely for the purpose of continuing that sequence further if new editions needed to be made . |
| 15 | A survey last August by the Consumers Association suggested that one garden in 20 had been burgled in the past two years , and that the average value of each theft was £130 . |
| 16 | British Rail Maintenance explained that 140 men and women had volunteered for redundancy . |
| 17 | Likewise , in reviewing Our Towns , the journal Social Work argued that two things stood out about its analysis of the evacuation experience — ‘ our failure to educate our girls as home-makers , in spite of seventy years of compulsory education , and our failure to provide our people with the raw material for home-making ’ . |
| 18 | In 1981 the Procedure Committee asked that eight days should be allocated in the chamber for the discussion of particular estimates ; the estimates would be chosen by the liaison committee of chairmen of select committees , so this arrangement would provide a further opportunity of examining matters raised in committee inquiries . |
| 19 | An independent clinical test revealed that two minutes of brushing with a Braun Oral-B Plaque Remover removed more plaque than three minutes using a conventional electric toothbrush , or six minutes with a manual toothbrush . |
| 20 | Several times during their tour , which ended with the second ‘ test ’ against a New Zealand XV a few days after these notes were written , the England ‘ B ’ management announced that one aim of their New Zealand expedition was to broaden their rugby experience . |
| 21 | The judge found that six members of the management committee , including the appellant and the defendant , resolved to dismiss the plaintiff . |
| 22 | A UN forestry expert estimated that 17,000,000 hectares of the world 's rainforests had been destroyed in 1990 ( as against 11,000,000 hectares in 1980 ) . |
| 23 | The exchange assumed that 150,000 tonnes of cocoa must be bought for delivery to the holders of long positions . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The London Tablet protested that one press release contained fifteen ‘ condemns ’ in twenty-four pages despite the tenor of Pope John 's opening address . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 28 | The Museum of Transport is housed in the Kelvin Hall and subsequent investigation revealed that 3 cars were infested . |
| 29 | In all the Group estimated that 300,000 people had served prison sentences of two or more years in East Germany since 1945 . |
| 30 | In the overcrowded prisons , Amnesty claimed that 25 prisoners had been deliberately killed by the police and prison guards in 1989 . |