Example sentences of "was [verb] that [noun pl] have " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sept 6 it was reported that soldiers had refused access to their prisoners by International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) personnel , and that those arrested included a former minister , Khamed Abdoulaye , an aide of Prime Minister Cheiffou Amadou , and several other prominent personalities . |
| 2 | It was reported that Uzbeks had demonstrated on Feb. 20 in Tashkent to demand the immediate eviction of Meskhetians , prompting the authorities to begin evacuating Meskhetian residents from the city for their own protection , and that on the following day Uzbek demonstrators had broken through police cordons protecting several Meskhetian-run collective farms outside Tashkent and had set fire to around 50 Meskhetian homes . |
| 3 | Security sources said that artillery units in the security zone also shelled Lebanese villages 15 km from the Israeli border , in the Iqilm and Toufah areas , where pro-Iranian Moslem fundamentalists were believed to be preparing to infiltrate the security zone ; it was reported that Palestinians had set up multibarrel rocket-launchers aimed at Israel there . |
| 4 | A distinction was drawn between arbitrators and quasi-arbitrators in Panamena Europea Navigacion ( Compania Limitada ) v Frederick Leyland & Co Ltd ( J Russell & Co ) [ 1947 ] AC 428 , where the shipowners ' surveyor was to certify that repairs had been satisfactorily carried out . |
| 5 | ‘ Nobody was to know that Germans had made it onto British soil . |
| 6 | In the earlier regime it was accepted that rules had to be general to some extent , and open to change to allow for adaptation to changing circumstances . |
| 7 | It was said that birds had not been seen nesting or singing in the area of Belsen since the war . |
| 8 | The board yesterday decided to close 11 of its 77 community clinics after it was told that studies had shown that doctors ' practices were taking on responsibility for child health surveillance . |
| 9 | Sir Anthony Barrowclough was told that police had wanted to interview Mrs Elizabeth Barlow in 1981 over the collapse of a stockbroking firm which had links with another investment company , Farrington Stead , a similar operation to Barlow Clowes . |
| 10 | The Congress was told that journalists had been registered in only fifty of ninety guberniia committees . |
| 11 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 12 | At the end of the meeting , it was announced that donors had pledged US$1,200 million in aid for 1991 . |
| 13 | In a report in The Times of Aug. 28 it was confirmed that police had filed criminal charges against Bhutto 's husband , Asif Ali Zardari , on grounds of illegal possession of arms , as well as on corruption charges . |
| 14 | Then when it was realized that things had taken a turn for the worse and somebody was going to get killed the vicar stepped in and bought them all ice-creams . |
| 15 | A frisson of concern ran through the staff when it was discovered that items have only been routinely fumigated against pathogens since the 1950s . |