Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [adj] [n mass] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Polo maintained that these people enjoyed a peaceful existence on the Isle of Andaman , engaging in the trade of nuts , apples and rice with India . |
| 2 | Credit granters told us that they rarely checked information about employment because they found that many people regarded this as an invasion of privacy . |
| 3 | ( 1986 ) found that young people admitted to care had experienced and continued to experience during the admission highly disturbing and unpredictable family relationships . |
| 4 | But after spending more than £2,500 on a facelift and suffering a few weeks of looking and feeling like she had gone 12 rounds with Lennox Lewis , Fiona found that few people noticed any difference . |
| 5 | In February 1990 , a Gallop Survey , found that most people did not know how to manage their money , and just muddled through . |
| 6 | The NFPA study tested 7,000 samples and found that 79.8 percent contained no residues , 18.7 percent contained residues within the legal tolerance limit and 1.8 percent had residues above the legal limit . |
| 7 | Following Alia 's call for greater religious toleration , Vatican and Yugoslav sources reported that 5,000 people attended a Catholic mass in Shkoder on Nov. 16 conducted by Archbishop Simun Yubani , who had been in prison from 1967 until 1989 for violating the ban imposed on all forms of religious manifestations . |
| 8 | Radiodiffusion-Television Malienne reported that 27 people died on March 22 and 23 , but the Agence France-Presse news agency put the figure at " more than 80 dead " . |
| 9 | The Financial Times of Nov. 22 reported that 17 people had been killed since the outbreak of disturbances in late October . |
| 10 | It reported that nine people had been released in January , and one other released on bail . |
| 11 | On Feb. 20 Nepali Radio reported that three people died when attacking a police station in the village of Jaddukuha in south-eastern Janakpur . |
| 12 | The Guardian of Dec. 1 reported that 21 people had been killed since the declaration of emergency ; opposition sources put the death toll at 50 , while government officials said that the number was closer to five . |
| 13 | De Candolle realized that all species have the potential to increase their numbers at the expense of rivals occupying the same territory . |
| 14 | I 'm fed up too but I suppose we should n't grumble , ’ Sarah said and Anne agreed that other people had worse troubles . |
| 15 | Alarm was followed by confusion after the office of the exiled former president , Abolhassan Bani-Sadr , announced that 20 people had been killed in an explosion at the Tehran residence of Mr Khamenei . |
| 16 | When pressed for concrete experimental results to validate their claim , they announced that supporting data had already been obtained , in the belief that they would be able to obtain it in future . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The survey revealed that 100,000 people had injected drugs in the past five years , with more than half sharing needles . |
| 19 | He argued that rational people drawing up a just social contract would only be willing to grant governments the power to punish to the extent that was necessary to protect themselves from the crimes of others . |
| 20 | His diffidence with secondary art teachers , he intimated , was because he believed that these folk had had longer formal training and more paper qualifications than himself . |
| 21 | Mrs Bottomley said Prof Day was ‘ quite right ’ that AIDS remained a very serious threat but added that new statistics made it possible to frame future policy ‘ according to facts , not fantasy ’ . |
| 22 | He added that several people had told him their windows had been covered in oil again — a problem most islanders faced ten weeks ago when the Braer hit rocks near Sumburgh . |
| 23 | However , the People 's Daily of Nov. 11 noted that some people did not have " a good understanding " of the need for austerity measures , and that such an attitude should be " resolutely rectified " . |
| 24 | This assumed that young people embarked upon a particular ‘ career ’ because they had ‘ chosen ’ it : that it was a product of their own internal decision-making processes . |
| 25 | A report published on Aug. 19 in Washington , written by two staff members of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee after a visit to the region on Aug. 7-14 , estimated that 35,000 people had died in Bosnia since late March ; Bosnian Moslems formed the largest group of casualties . |
| 26 | In all the Group estimated that 300,000 people had served prison sentences of two or more years in East Germany since 1945 . |
| 27 | The police , who were overwhelmed , estimated that 30,000 people converged on the red-brick dust track at Lillie Bridge , West Brompton , London , to bet on the outcome of the gladiatorial duel between George and Cummings . |
| 28 | The United Kingdom-based Save the Children Fund estimated that 10,000,000 people faced starvation and that Sudan and Ethiopia each required 1,000,000 to 1,500,000 tonnes of food immediately to avert a catastrophe . |
| 29 | No effort has been made to investigate the tens of thousands of murders and ‘ disappearances ’ that have occurred over the past three years : in February , Sri Lankan human rights activists estimated that 40,000 people had ‘ disappeared ’ since 1987 . |
| 30 | Regional news sources estimated that 200 people had been killed and 10,000 made homeless between the beginning of March and the end of April . |