Example sentences of "is that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 2 | The good news is that hundreds of thousands of pounds worth of paintings were saved . |
| 3 | Among the claims is that five men accused in a rent boys scandal walked free after fears that gay judges would be named in court . |
| 4 | The latest update to last week 's Barclays Bank story ( UX No 393 ) , is that five of DEC 's Alpha-ready VAX 7000/610 machines are replacing 20 VAX 8000 and 6000 boxes at three Barclay 's datacentres . |
| 5 | I know people read my books and try to find identifiable people but the truth is that five or six people , and a great deal of myself and a great deal of invention , go into minor characters . |
| 6 | ‘ The word is that five or six miles further on we 'll find the new road washed out . |
| 7 | What I should perhaps point out here is that seventy percent of people who have fallen from the top of the falls have died in the process . |
| 8 | And the good news is that 10 % from every sale will go to help the World Wide Life Fund For Nature in its quest for earth 's survival . |
| 9 | And as for Mr Willi Stoph , the former prime minister , a major mark against him is that 100 different brands of whisky were found in his cellar — in other countries that would be admired . |
| 10 | The ‘ conservative ’ estimate of one bank is that 55 billion dollars wafted northwards from Latin America between 1977 and 19836 . |
| 11 | Another very neat feature is that one Postscript interpreter can handle both the user 's screen and a printer directly from the same source material . |
| 12 | A crucial factor is that one witness 's evidence , though plausible , may be rejected because it is contradicted by another witness whose evidence is accepted as being beyond doubt . |
| 13 | One reason is that one clue for recession-watchers , the build-up of manufactured stocks ( inventories ) , is not much of a guide to a financial recession . |
| 14 | A spokesman for the Lord Chancellor 's Office said last night : ‘ The allegation we have received is that one of the magistrates nodded off and we will be investigating . ’ |
| 15 | Smith says the message from Soviet data is that one year is the most people can take . |
| 16 | Added salt in the wound is that one of the books in the list that follows is taken from the collection which was around Gladstone as he spoke , and that another is one actually given to a library by his trustees . |
| 17 | It is , of course , quite obvious once we stop to think about it that the important difference between those that produced the cold and those that did not is that one group was susceptible to it whilst the other one was not . |
| 18 | The other possibility is that one or more of your men stumbled across something important which Fouché would prefer kept secret : something , at a guess , more relevant to internal French politics than Bonaparte 's military adventures , which as you say do n't really concern the police . ’ |
| 19 | What molecular geneticists — among them Sharp — have now discovered is that one of these families does in fact have some of the hallmarks of a transposon , and moreover has special properties that would tend to promote its expansion in succeeding generations . |
| 20 | The result is that one official feline organization will recognize the new mutation as an additional breed , while another official body outlaws it and refuses to allow it to enter its cat shows . |
| 21 | The reason I 'm calling is that one of our biggest artists is a band called Van Halen . |
| 22 | If you make an error in a project powered from a PP3 size 9 volt battery , about the worst that will happen is that one or two semiconductors will be destroyed . |
| 23 | ‘ The bad news , ’ went on Luke , tucking a strap into a buckle , ‘ is that one of today 's umpires , Jaime Calavessi , bumped one of the O'Brien boys wrong last week . |
| 24 | A white pop star has plundered their culture with the aid of Lennon & McCartney — but what 's worse is that one of dancehall 's finest footsoldiers is a co-conspirator . |
| 25 | Well , when we say horrifying car crash what we really mean is that one of the two cars got a puncture and the other vehicle bashed into the back of them but you never know , it could have been worse . |
| 26 | Our greatest fear is that one of our children will end up in a body bag . |
| 27 | Another puzzle is that one kind of large reptile survived — the crocodiles . |
| 28 | ( Much more worrying is that one of the nearby stars — notably Sirius or Procyon — could explode as a supernova , bathing our planet in sufficient hard radiation to extinguish all life . |
| 29 | The only positive information is that one PC-5A was registered VT-ATN in 1945 , and remained on the register until 1955 . |
| 30 | A STORY doing the rounds at Buck House is that one of Her Majesty 's television sets recently packed up . |