Example sentences of "[num] [vb past] that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 2 | The Financial Times of Sept. 22 reported that pro-Chinese associations had won 12 of the 16 elective seats . |
| 3 | The US negotiating team , led by Max Kampelman until his retirement in December , had on Oct. 30 proposed that anti-missile tests in space be permitted but that a limit be placed on their scope , with a specific assurance that the USA would limit to 15 the number of satellites deployed in a Strategic Defence Initiative ( SDI , or " Star Wars'-see p. 36760 ) test . |
| 4 | A French government report released on July 2 showed that foreign orders for French weapons had soared by 70 per cent in 1990 to F33,400 million ( US$5,400 million ) , largely because of the Gulf war . |
| 5 | Reports on April 30 confirmed that allied forces had expanded their military presence 30 km east of Zakho towards the Turkish border . |
| 6 | A joint CRN-CCAOD communiqué broadcast on March 30 said that free elections at municipal , legislative and presidential level would be held before Jan. 1 , 1992 , and that the army would return to barracks on Jan. 20 . |
| 7 | The Guardian of Feb. 12 said that Kuwaiti refugees arriving in al-Ruweishid , Jordan , had confirmed an outbreak of cholera and worsening food shortages . |
| 8 | To increase foreign investment the government in March 1991 announced that foreign firms would be permitted to repatriate all profits , but that only firms investing more than $2,800,000 would be permitted to retain the three-year tax exemption previously enjoyed by all foreign firms . |
| 9 | The economic embargo imposed by Baghdad in October 1991 meant that local administrators , other state employees and pensioners no longer received their remunerations and the food supply situation became critical [ see also pp. 38548 ; 38598 ] . |
| 10 | A count made in 1971 showed that one-parent families on supplementary benefit amounted to two-thirds of all the unmarried mothers , more than half the separated mothers , one-third of the divorced and one-fifth of the widows in this country . |
| 11 | However , the Financial Times of Oct. 21 reported that Western companies " are likely to remain sceptical … since they are still owed millions of dollars for products delivered to North Korea two decades ago " . |
| 12 | The parade of Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA managers should finally be concluded , says a report in La Repubblica , after the Milan judges interrogated Antonio Garrani , Daniele Mosca and Carlo Lombardoni last week : the three confirmed that other bribes for the supply of computers were paid to the Ministry of Justice through the administrator of a quasi-governmental agency . |
| 13 | The League of Nations mandate under which Britain held Tanganyika after 1920 decreed that native interests should come first . |
| 14 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 15 | A study of Cornwall in the early 1970s revealed that average earnings in the more rural employment office areas ( in the west or the north-east of the county ) were as much as 6 per cent below the county average , while earnings in the more urban areas ( for example , near Plymouth or Camborne — Redruth ) were 6 to 7 per cent above the county average ( Cornwall County Council 1979 ) . |
| 16 | The UGTA , with 800,000 members and affiliated to the FLN , on March 5 declared that current conditions jeopardized the agreement signed in October 1990 [ see p. 37795 ] : price rises resulted from " the misuse of the law on liberalizing prices , the oppressive monetary policy " and black marketeering . |
| 17 | The group discussions reported in Appendix II showed that single women with children ( divorced , separated or widowed ) may have particular difficulty getting low-cost credit , often because they themselves are not working : so they get higher-cost credit instead ( the reasons for this are explored further in chapter 5 ) . |
| 18 | The expenditure plans revealed in January 1992 showed that increased resources had been made available for health , housing , education , and law and order . |
| 19 | Opposition politicians on Sept. 5 alleged that senior officials were involved in corruption and influence peddling in relation to the privatization of state assets . |
| 20 | The Revolution settlement which formulated the basis for the offering of the British crown to William of Orange in 1689 asserted that British freedoms and liberties could not be safeguarded under a ‘ popish ’ prince and closed a number of public offices , including the monarchy , to Catholics . |
| 21 | Reports on Dec. 17 suggested that Algerian proposals for the simultaneous withdrawal of US and Iraqi troops had encountered Saudi reluctance and growing Iraqi inflexibility . |
| 22 | For example : Law 2 argued that urban areas will absorb the population of first their immediate rural areas and then even the remote areas ; Law 6 stated that urban dwellers are less migratory than rural inhabitants ; and Law 5 argued that migrants proceeding long distances generally migrate to the great centres of commerce and industry . |
| 23 | A report in Middle East International of April 3 claimed that Palestinian casualties at demonstrations were declining , while shooting of targeted activists , often by Israeli undercover units , was increasing . |
| 24 | A statement issued in Vienna by the information bureau of the opposition Supreme Assembly of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq ( SAIRI ) and reported on Dec. 16 announced that senior officers of the Republican Guard had been executed following an alleged coup . |
| 25 | Chapter 1 noted that competitive conditions in many product markets are such that they are likely to be tolerant of managerial ineffectiveness and in some substantial deviations from the profit goal will not be incompatible with enterprise survival . |
| 26 | The basis for a new statute and manifesto to be adopted by the congress , it was followed by a heated debate which illustrated the division between reformers and conservatives , but the documents approved on Feb. 1 showed that moderate reformers had been victorious . |
| 27 | Fifty five thought that British companies should take more responsibility for raising their employees ' awareness of being infected with HIV through heterosexual contact abroad . |
| 28 | Radio of Russia on Feb. 16 said that Russian enterprises had a powerful incentive to acquire roubles , and that because of a lack of roubles , they were being forced to put goods on the market which they had been trying to hold back . |
| 29 | He had been temporary chargé d'affaires at the Netherlands embassy in Baghdad from September to October 1990 , but the Tunisian Foreign Ministry on March 1 said that initial investigations suggested no political motives . |
| 30 | However , the Washington Post of June 23 reported that Israeli officials had made " private assessments " that the USA intended to create such a linkage " behind the scenes " . |