Example sentences of "[noun prp] [adj] [that] [num] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Chamorro had resisted pressure to dismiss Ortega after the army admitted on Jan. 2 that four of its officers had stolen 28 Soviet-made anti-aircraft missiles from army stockpiles in October and had shipped them to guerrillas in El Salvador . |
| 2 | It was reported on Aug. 5 that three of Nepal 's smaller communist parties had merged to form the Nepal Communist Party ( United ) in order to " strengthen the left movement " . |
| 3 | Meanwhile , the International Committeee of the Red Cross announced on July 13 that two of its workers had been killed during an armed ambush in Paktia province . |
| 4 | Its Madrid representative said on Aug. 27 that dozens of people had died , some in the bombing and others of thirst , and that " hundreds " were missing . |
| 5 | It was reported on Aug. 1 that 30 of the country 's 60 active investigative judges had been dismissed for incompetence , the head of the Department of National Security ( DAS ) , Gen. Miguel Marza Márquez , stating that they were " responsible " for unsolved crimes [ see p. 37529 for dismissals from armed forces and police ] . |
| 6 | The opposition fundamentalist party , the Islamic Constitutional Movement ( ICM ) , said on May 14 that five of its members had been arrested . |
| 7 | The Agence France-Presse ( AFP ) news agency reported on Aug. 14 that two of China 's most prominent dissidents , Wang Juntao and Chen Zeming , had begun a hunger strike to protest against prison conditions . |
| 8 | The Johannesburg Sunday Times had meanwhile disclosed on Feb. 10 that one of the co-accused who had been missing the day the trial opened , Katiza Cebekhulu , had actually been seen , and duly photographed by the newspaper , among the crowd on the Supreme Court steps , apparently unconcerned by the heavy police presence . |
| 9 | The International Committee of the Red Cross ( ICRC ) confirmed on Feb. 21 that four of its representatives had been held by a faction of the mujaheddin , reported to be the Hezb-e-Islami ( led by Hekmatyar ) , since Jan. 12 . |
| 10 | The Union for the Total Independence of Angola ( UNITA ) confirmed on March 6 that two of its most senior officials had left the organization . |
| 11 | The Iraqi Agriculture and Irrigation Minister , Abdul Wahab Mahmoud al-Sabbagh , said in Rome on Nov. 13 that thousands of Iraqis faced starvation following a 75 per cent drop in food production . |
| 12 | Israel announced on Dec. 29 that 10 of the deportees would be allowed to return . |
| 13 | A mission mounted jointly by the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds and the International Council of Bird Preservation warned on March 14 that hundreds of thousands of migratory birds , which used the beaches , salt marshes and mudflats of the Gulf as resting places , would shortly be at risk as they arrived en route from East Africa to northern Asia and Europe . |
| 14 | He announced late on April 28 that one of his commanders , Ustad Farid , would serve in Rabbani 's interim government as Prime Minister . |
| 15 | It was announced on June 26 that three of the four were to be charged with the murder on May 27 of two Australians from London , Nick Spanos and Stephen Melrose , who had been shot dead in Roermond in the Netherlands , where they had stopped for a meal , by two gunmen who drove off towards Belgium with a third man . |
| 16 | The Commission reported in June 1991 that 193 of the directives proposed on the single market had now been approved , and that only 89 measures remained . |