The owner of the cinema needed to make a lot of improvements and employ more people to keep it running, _______ meant spending tens of thousands of pounds.
__________ in 1864 in Geneva, Switzerland, the agreement was intended to protect the wounded soldiers and limit human suffering in time of war.
What you said just now __________ to do with the matter we are discussing.
Such poets as Shakespeare __________ widely read, of whose works, however, some __________ difficult to understand.
The population of Jiangsu __________ to more than twice what it was in 1949. The figure is now approaching 74 million.
More than one kind of English __________ all over the world.