Example sentences of "[noun prp] [num] that [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Interior Minister Larbi Belkheir said on March 12 that 6,786 people interned in January and February were being held in five camps in the Sahara . |
| 2 | The Israeli Defence Ministry announced on Jan. 2 that 12 Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza strip were to be deported because of their involvement in " attacks on Israeli soldiers and local Arab residents " . |
| 3 | SPK , the SOC news agency , reported on Jan. 30 that 144 prisoners — 24 political detainees and 120 POWs — had been released the previous day . |
| 4 | President Roh Tae Woo announced on Jan. 10 that two rounds of elections for mayors and provincial governors due to be held in mid-1992 would be postponed indefinitely . |
| 5 | Khumalo , who was a leader of the Inkatha Youth Brigade until March 1991 , claimed at a news conference on Jan. 10 that 200 Inkatha activists had received massive financial aid as well as military training and political instruction from the SADF . |
| 6 | Detentions of FIS activists and supporters had meanwhile begun , with the FIS claiming on Jan. 17 that 500 people had been detained as they attended Friday prayers . |
| 7 | A spokesman for the Ministry of Public Security announced on Jan. 18 that 573 people arrested for taking part in pro-democracy demonstrations in April-June 1989 had recently been released from prison . |
| 8 | In the area of taxation it had been established by the time of Edward I that direct taxes could only be levied with the consent of Parliament . |
| 9 | The war took a potentially catastrophic environmental turn when it was revealed on Jan. 25 that huge quantities of oil were pouring into the Gulf . |
| 10 | The Exxon corporation admitted on Jan. 3 that 500,000 gallons of heating oil had been spilled into New York harbour after a pipeline was hit by an Exxon-owned vessel on Jan. 1 . |
| 11 | The official Tass news agency announced on Jan. 1 that Soviet troops would henceforth only serve in the Transcaucasus on a voluntary basis . |
| 12 | The Reuters news agency reported on Jan. 8 that three members of the banned People 's Party of Brunei ( the main driving force behind the 1962 rebellion ) had been detained by the Brunei authorities in March 1989 after returning from exile . |
| 13 | The EC announced on Jan. 15 that all CIS members had accepted EC guidelines for recognition [ see p. 38685 ] and were therefore officially accepted by the EC as independent states . |
| 14 | German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said after talks with Bush in the USA on March 21-22 that both men and the other EC leaders all wanted an agreement by the end of April . |
| 15 | Austria was so totally defeated by Prussia at the battle of Sadowa in July 1866 that any attempt at mediation by France would have been rejected out of hand at Berlin , where it was known that such mediation would be a paper exercise with no military back-up . |
| 16 | The South Korean police announced on Aug. 22 that 48 people , including 10 soldiers , had been arrested for planning to overthrow the government . |
| 17 | Honduras denied on Sept. 30 that Honduran aircraft had attacked Nicaraguan territory earlier that day . |
| 18 | In a sharply contrasting assessment , US Treasury Nicholas Brady argued on Sept. 22 that lower interest rates encouraged increases in investment , productivity and living standards , adding that " when interest rates remain high for whatever reason , the returns on investment stay sterile in the banking system " . |
| 19 | After a second incident on Sept. 21 when depth charges were fired at an intruder in the Stockholm archipelago , Bildt claimed on Sept. 22 that Russian submarines had violated Sweden 's territorial waters and had been pursued , but this was denied by Russia on Sept. 23 . |
| 20 | The Hungarian government issued a warning in February 1991 that all agreements and contracts with the Soviet Union were at companies ' own risk and that no government loans would be available . |
| 21 | Associated Press of Pakistan claimed on Aug. 26 that Pakistani troops had repulsed an Indian attack on a post in Mirzapur , and that the Indians had " lost 20 lives including their two officers " while the Pakistanis " suffered two casualties " . |
| 22 | The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Aug. 26 that 14,333 children had died in the last year owing to the absence of medical supplies . |
| 23 | Countries making commitments in August to the multinational force , apart from the USA and those European and Arab countries as described above , included ( i ) Canada , a NATO member country , which announced on Aug. 10 that it would send two destroyers and a supply ship , to arrive by September ; ( ii ) Australia , whose Prime Minister Bob Hawke announced after a telephone conversation with Bush on Aug. 10 that two frigates and a supply ship would be sent ( a decision endorsed by the Cabinet on Aug. 14 ) ; ( iii ) Pakistan , which had some 90,000 nationals working in Kuwait , and whose President Ghulam Ishaq Khan said on Aug. 13 that it would send troops to protect the Moslem holy places , with a first contingent to leave on Aug. 17 and a total commitment expected to number 5,000-8,000 ; and ( iv ) Bangladesh , which on Aug. 15 announced a commitment in principle to send troops to Saudi Arabia numbering some 5,000 in all . |
| 24 | However , Gen. Lewis MacKenzie , commander of UN operations in Sarajevo said on July 21 that 40,000 UN troops were needed in Sarajevo alone to keep the peace and that all sides were breaking " the international rules of war " . |
| 25 | Smidovich claimed on Aug. 18 that Iraqi officials had supplied " good information " on the government 's ballistic missile programmes . |
| 26 | It was reported on Aug. 5 that three members of the opposition had been suspended from the National Parliament only two weeks after being sworn into office . |
| 27 | The Oil Minister Hamud Abdullah al Raqaba said on May 11 that 100 oilwell fires had been extinguished and the wells brought under control [ see pp. 37988 ; 38119 ; 38166 ] . |
| 28 | The news agency Interfax reported on Sept. 18 that all KGB officers had been withdrawn from the personnel directorate of the Foreign Ministry as a step to withdrawing KGB personnel from the Foreign Ministry 's central apparatus . |
| 29 | Attorney General Acisclo Valladares Molina announced on Aug. 17 that seven members of the military , including a naval captain — the commander of the important Military Base of the Pacific — could face the death penalty over the killing of 11 people on Aug. 9 in the southern department of Escuintla . |
| 30 | Gorbachev also endorsed the comments of the Soviet Foreign Minister Boris Pankin , who stated on Sept. 5 that Soviet-Cuban relations had to be " de-ideologized " and , from now on , had to be based on free-trade terms rather than on previous military or political dogmas . |