Example sentences of "it was [verb] that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No , these did n't show any stalls , but they 're i it was explained that one of the constraints in the design of the scheme was the brief that they had to leave space for er as many stalls as possible to be erected . |
| 2 | It was argued that 5 per cent on paper would mean nearer 8 or 9 per cent in reality through wage-drift effects . |
| 3 | The six months ' stock of parts was exhausted and it was believed that 10 to 15 per cent of the weapons and between 30 and 35 per cent of vehicles were unserviceable . |
| 4 | It was calculated that 65,000 of the country 's registered 76,000 road vehicles were used by or for tourists . |
| 5 | It was calculated that 170 per cent more on books and other educational materials was spent on grammar than on secondary-modern pupils . |
| 6 | It was calculated that 80 per cent of patients would need to be moved between wards to achieve sectorization . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Despite the temptation to accumulate treasure it was recognized that one way of stimulating gifts was to spend a sizable proportion on the further embellishment of buildings and the enrichment of furnishings and vestments . |
| 9 | This striking result led to further investigations , and it was noticed that one drop of the diluted nasal mucus added to 1 c.c. of a thick suspension of the cocci caused their complete disappearance in a few minutes at 37°C . |
| 10 | On Nov. 6 it was announced that four Oromo organizations , the OPDO , the Islamic Front for the Liberation of Oromia ( IFLO ) , the United Oromo People 's Liberation Front ( UOPLF ) and the Oromo Abo Liberation Front ( OALF ) , had agreed to work together towards the creation of a " broad-based national entity " . |
| 11 | Last week it was announced that seventy-five people are to take voluntary redundancy at RAF Lyneham in Wiltshire . |
| 12 | In December it was announced that 11 prisoners had been given the death sentence , commuted to life imprisonment . |
| 13 | In February it was announced that 147,950 Volga Germans had migrated from the Soviet Union to Germany in 1990 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | On June 11 it was announced that nine death sentences had been decreed in the southern town of Shiraz , where there had been disturbances after security forces acted against disabled war veterans holding a rally on April 15 . |
| 16 | The political system of South Korea underwent a momentous realignment on Jan. 22 , when it was announced that two of the country 's three main opposition parties , the Reunification Democratic Party ( RDP ) and the New Democratic Republican Party ( NDRP ) , would merge with the ruling Democratic Justice Party ( DJP ) to form a new conservative alliance . |
| 17 | It was announced that two trees would be planted in Regent 's Park on Wednesday 18th March at 11.30 in memory of and . |
| 18 | On Nov. 23 it was announced that 100,000 cases of corruption had been uncovered during 1989 , three times more than in 1988 . |
| 19 | Rumours were soon in circulation about the surrender , and a few days later it was announced that 47,000 wounded had been saved . |
| 20 | On Dec. 27 it was announced that 53 students had been arrested for alleged membership of the Democratic Students League ( DSL ) . |
| 21 | A few hours later that same day , it was announced that three young Protestants , John Orchin , Samuel Richmond and Victor McCready , had been charged with the murders of three Roman Catholics . |
| 22 | On Feb. 28 it was announced that 54 people had been arrested in connection with the attacks on Hoxha monuments . |
| 23 | As a result of the consultancy report , it was decided that seven of RBIS 's ten local offices would be closed — with no compulsory redundancies — and that RBIS would operate out of a head office in Manchester while RBIC would operate from three regional offices in Glasgow , London and Manchester , with its head office located in Glasgow . |
| 24 | It was written that one day you returned smelling of snow and very ill from winter . |
| 25 | Last week it was revealed that two thousand people died in a single chemical attack . |
| 26 | His comments came as it was revealed that three-quarters of Tory MPs wanted needy people to be protected from the tax on fuel and on the eve of a report , to be issued today , which said families in debt on their fuel bills were already choosing between heating and eating — even before the proposed addition of VAT . |
| 27 | On Oct. 11 Svein Urdal resigned as chief of intelligence after it was revealed that 10 out of some 100 Palestinian asylum seekers who arrived in Norway in late 1990 and early 1991 had been interviewed by the Israeli security service Mossad at the request of Norwegian police . |
| 28 | GREYHOUND RACING : The sport was reeling from scandal after it was revealed that five dogs in a race had been doped . |
| 29 | In the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Impact of Rates on Households , it was stated that 900,000 old people , living in 800,000 households , had incomes at , or below , the official poverty line ( Cmnd. 2582 , HMSO , 1965 ) . |
| 30 | Several of these were also in packages managed by other people and it was realised that two new modules would be required . |