Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 2 | There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road . |
| 3 | The Home Office originally announced that no prisoners had been injured , but it was finally admitted that 54 had been , and that there had been criminal assaults on prisoners by staff . |
| 4 | It was just accepted that one day Sara would have a little inheritance . |
| 5 | The Piper pilot was not informed that four Tornados were in the area . |
| 6 | Their aim was to install electronic " bugging " devices , and it was quickly established that one of the men , James McCord , was an official of the Republican " Committee to Re-elect the President " ( CRP or , as it was soon re-christened , CREEP ) . |
| 7 | It was also observed that eight individual delivery times for early and rare books exceeded one-and-a-half hours , and that three-quarters of these occurred between 12.00 and 13.00 , which suggests that the increase in delivery times at lunch-time may be even greater for such material than for ‘ ordinary ’ books . |
| 8 | It was also reported that two of the three men on trial with Talb or members of their family had been seen with Dalkammoni . |
| 9 | It was also reported that three dismissed military officers had been charged with rebellion and murder in connection with the December coup attempt . |
| 10 | It was also known that two of them had a day off together every week , besides Sunday . |
| 11 | Later forensic evidence was also to prove that one of the stocks of Henry Tidburn 's shotguns fitted exactly the pattern of marks found on PC Shorter 's helmet . |
| 12 | It was also estimated that 60 per cent of the fruit and vegetable crop had been lost , although this could be blamed in part on almost continuous rain between late August and October in the main vegetable-growing belt of central European Russia , Byelorussia and the north Ukraine , with the result that crops had rotted in waterlogged fields . |
| 13 | It was also proposed that three deputy speakers be elected , one from each parliamentary group , but the USD deputies objected to this , arguing that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) was based on ( Turkish ) ethnicity and thus constitutionally unlawful . |
| 14 | I was also charmed that one lady called me Rosemary Clooney ! |
| 15 | He was also told that 11,090 containers with low-level radioactive waste were dumped in the Kara Sea , and that at least five barges holding large quantities of nuclear waste are floating or have sunk off the island of Novaya Zemlya ( a former Soviet nuclear testing site ) . |
| 16 | It was originally reported that nine people had been killed and 30 wounded in Mbuji-Mayi , a diamond mining town , during violent demonstrations on April 13 , 14 and 15 [ see p. 38133 ] . |
| 17 | It was officially stated that 47 per cent of the members of the new central committee were aged under 49 , that four of them were women and that 41 per cent had received education to university level . |
| 18 | The complete results were not released , nor were the names of defeated candidates ; it was officially claimed that 503 candidates took part . |
| 19 | The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) . |
| 20 | It was officially reported that 36,000 possible offenders had surrendered by a Nov. 10 deadline imposed in August by the Supreme People 's Procuratorate . |
| 21 | It was previously suggested that one reason attention focusing might actually impair recognition of non-risky junctions is that it would prevent subjects from attending to useful peripheral information . |
| 22 | Of interest , it was recently reported that endothelin-1 and -3 can induce the release of tissue type plasminogen activator from endothelial cells . |