Example sentences of "report that [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , Pla et al. ( 1985 ) report that in the northern central plains of Venezuela rain-fed production of sorghum and maize have resulted in accelerated erosion and an increase in flood frequency . |
| 2 | In 1983 the Soviet media cited a New York Times report that in the absence of an agreement with the United States on the bases Greek officials were prepared simply to liquidate them and were ‘ seriously considering taking up a position of neutrality similar , for example , to that adhered to by Sweden ’ . |
| 3 | Ministerial Flannel IT HAS been reported that at the launch of National Dyslexia Week , the Duke of Westminster , entering into the spirit of the occasion ( and surely nothing else was intended ) , introduced the junior education minister and Darlington MP . |
| 4 | Official figures give average class sizes as forty to fifty , but it is reported that in the rural areas there are often seventy to eighty children in a class . |
| 5 | On Sept. 18 it was reported that in the previous week five truck drivers had been killed by armed groups , probably of the Afar clan , on the road from the port of Assab to Addis Ababa . |
| 6 | Albanian sources reported that during the talks Alia had stressed the government 's intention to develop its relations with the UN . |
| 7 | The Guardian of April 3 reported that over the preceding months Treuhand had become the " focus of growing public anger " and was viewed as the " embodiment of eastern Germany 's economic misery " . |
| 8 | The words on the cutting room floor reported that despite the sheer , stunned disbelief at a rotten decision youth manager Don Hawkins and the remaining players all shook the referee 's hand at the bitter end . |
| 9 | But yesterday a friend who had been telephoning around Tories who are fighting marginal seats reported that on the doorsteps more voters were saying that , although they did not like the Tories , they liked Mr Kinnock even less . |
| 10 | November 1876 , reported that on the previous Thursday evening , he had preached in the little church at Turnham Green , to whence he had walked from Isleworth . |
| 11 | Spare Rib , May 1977 , reported that at the national Women 's Liberation conference , the Fifth Demand group ( for Financial and Legal Independence ) opposed the demand that ‘ every individual person , whether in or out of employment , should receive a Guaranteed Minimum Income as of right ’ on the grounds that ‘ it would amount to implicit support for the Wages for Housework Campaign ’ ( p. 11 ) . |
| 12 | In November 1940 , the master reported that in the previous four weeks there had been 93 admissions , plus 12 patients from the Services and 170 evacuees from London hospitals . |
| 13 | In 1892 , Clara Collet , a social investigator , reported that in the richer suburbs unmarried women aged 35–45 outnumbered unmarried men by over three to one , and only one-third of these were domestic servants . |
| 14 | The official New China News agency ( Xinhua ) reported that in the first nine months of the year 11,503 people had been arrested for such crimes . |
| 15 | The Madrid daily El País of Nov. 30 reported that in the previous week gunmen forced the wife of Indian leader Almílcar Méndez to participate in a demonstration against her husband . |
| 16 | Figures released today reported that in the year ending March 31 profits before tax were £10.3m compared with £7.7m in 1992 . |
| 17 | He was also able to report that under the new chief executive , David Michels , the group had regained control of its runaway balance sheet position by selling its Ashbourne nursing home division , launching a well-received rights issue and restructuring the banking arrangements with a considerable reduction in the number of banks . |
| 18 | We did have to predict how much we could help ourselves financially and Joan is pleased to report that through the marvellous efforts made through fund-raising this prediction has been achieved . |
| 19 | He went on to report that on the previous Saturday , Field 's case had come before Mr.Justice Heath ; three of the four witnesses had been examined and there had been no evidence to prove that the deceased had received blows on her stomach , the diseased state of which organ caused her death . |
| 20 | I am delighted to report that despite the increase both of magpies and crows last year , I have observed over the winter feeding period the usual mixture of birds . |
| 21 | I am glad to report that in the past few months we have made real progress with the car manufacturers . |
| 22 | And I 'll report that to the stewards at the meeting on er on Thursday as the initiative came from them . |
| 23 | Our Wood News Correspondent for ESP , reports that since the acquisition of TSS , they are now doing business internationally : ‘ All our products and services are available worldwide and we now have representatives in Canada , Indonesia , India , Japan , the Middle East and South America , in addition to our US workforce which has grown to over 260 employees . ’ |
| 24 | But they argued on the basis of British press reports that despite the considerable identity of views of the participants to the talks ‘ the Romanian leaders do not wish to be involved in any Western plan for the establishment of a ‘ neutral ’ Afghanistan ’ . |
| 25 | They built a separate development area , and Wilkinson reports that at the time he was writing his book three major new projects were being developed within it , but as none had reached completion there is no data about the effects of this new pattern of introducing new technology in that company . |
| 26 | Chris Dick of Linguaphone , which has a joint venture in Russia , reports that to the familiar problems of inflation , bureaucracy and foreign exchange has been added a new threat , piracy , now ‘ an enormous problem ’ . |
| 27 | In fact one study ( Armstrong 1984 ) reports that over the last century in Britain each 4 per cent increase in hourly wage rates for males has been followed by a 1 per cent reduction in hours worked per year . |
| 28 | In northeastern China , Leeming ( 1985 ) reports that in the vicinity of the Great Wall in Shaanxi Province the desert margin has advanced markedly in the last 150 years so that sand now extends 70 km south of the Great Wall , and in the nearby Yulin area grazing land and arable fields have been engulfed . |
| 29 | McGregor ( 1986 ) , for example , reports that in the upper Yallahs basin there is extensive sheetwash erosion , slope failures and extensive gullying . |
| 30 | CIMA , an original signatory , reports that in the first year it has ‘ set up an informal network to encourage women to stand for office on the Council ’ . |