Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [that] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a case which is causing the Bar much embarrassment , Lord Justice Watkins and Mr Justice Garland were told that six barristers followed Sir Ian , while 11 decided to stay with Mr John Samuels , QC , who was in charge of chambers administration . |
| 2 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 3 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |
| 4 | The DES was suggesting that 30,000 places could be used for diversification . |
| 5 | It was recommended that three acres of this ground should be purchased . |
| 6 | Over in Xian , it was reported that two postgraduates of the Northwestern University were assaulted by the children of a well-placed professor . |
| 7 | By 1900 it was reported that 500,000 households in England and Wales had been visited . |
| 8 | On Nov. 16 Castro announced that Cuba was entering " the bicycle age " in response to the shortfalls , and it was reported that 750,000 bicycles had been ordered from China . |
| 9 | By the end of June it was reported that 3,800,000 voters had registered , out of approximately 10,000,000 people entitled to do so . |
| 10 | On Oct. 7 it was reported that 46,000 foreigners , the majority of them Romanian nationals , had in the previous three days been refused entry from 27 countries for not fulfilling these conditions . |
| 11 | On Jan. 24 it was reported that 28 members of the Interim Legislative Assembly had taken their seats . |
| 12 | On the day after Aquino 's announcement it was reported that 28 congressmen and 22 governors had broken with the LDP and announced their support for Ramos . |
| 13 | By 8 March there were 27 dead and 227 wounded in the rioting ; later it was disclosed that 2000 persons had been detained ‘ behind barbed wire ’ . |
| 14 | It was said that one months worth of rain had rained within about three hours . |
| 15 | Since the book went to press there has been Smith v. Schofield , in which it was said that seventeen pages of algebra used to show the consequences of one construction of a tax Act should have been proved by an expert witness and not merely put before the judge ; this does raise sharply the difference between argument and evidence . |
| 16 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |
| 17 | GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped . |
| 18 | Today 's inquest was told that two grandchildren of the murdered woman were so close to the shooting that they too were hit . |
| 19 | The court was told that nine years after murdering his wife , Taylor plotted with his daughter to murder her husband in November 1991 . |
| 20 | On Aug. 10 it was agreed that five minesweepers would leave for the eastern Mediterranean , but their deployment in the Gulf was ruled out . |
| 21 | This arrangement was apparently carried out , and at the next meeting , on 26th May , it was found that sixty-seven schemes from all three parts of the competition were ‘ deserving further consideration ’ . |
| 22 | When this was done it was found that 799 comments from the potential risks condition were given codes which were not used by any subject in the description of that five second section . |
| 23 | An odd example of the rule is provided by an old case in which it was proved that 1,000 rabbits meant 1,200 rabbits ( Smith v Wilson ( 1832 ) 3 B & Ad 728 ) . |
| 24 | It was announced that two trees would be planted in Regent 's Park on Wednesday 18th March at 11.30 in memory of and . |
| 25 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 26 | On Nov. 23 it was announced that 100,000 cases of corruption had been uncovered during 1989 , three times more than in 1988 . |
| 27 | By Jan. 19 it was announced that six groups had agreed to the formula , but the proposal received strong opposition from the Pakistan-based Hezb-e Islami , led by Gulbuddin Hekmatyar . |
| 28 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
| 29 | It was estimated that 40,000 houses would be built over three years with this money , to house some 250,000 people . |
| 30 | In 1830 , 70 English boroughs had 100 or less voters ; Old Sarum and Dunwich were uninhabited constituencies ; and in 1793 it was estimated that 400 Members of Parliament out of a total of around 530 were nominated or dependent on noblemen in such a way that they were likely to lack the chance to display any real independence of mind in their parliamentary behaviour . |