Example sentences of "[pron] be [vb pp] that [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was told that one reason why many Conservative politicians were sympathetic towards our Report was because they did not at first realise that our insistence that all children should speak and write Standard English did not involve any recommendation about RP . |
| 2 | Does the Secretary of State recall that in answer to an earlier question of mine to his colleague at the Department of Employment , I was told that 25,000 manufacturing jobs had been lost in the past 12 months in Yorkshire and Humberside ? |
| 3 | All parking signs have now been placed in position as requested by the Committee , and we are assured that twelve parking places are to be delineated at the Nursing Home end , which should alleviate the parking problem . |
| 4 | Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar . |
| 5 | Although reported second-hand , it is said that one chap who 's $5,000 in the red and 90 days behind with payments got a call from the card company . |
| 6 | For instance , it is recorded that one woman , Joan of Sprotborough , fell into a millpool and in spite of not being rescued for an hour was then revived by prayer and by being " measured for a candle " . |
| 7 | It is decided that one topic per term in each year group should be Science-based . |
| 8 | The police investigation is continuing , but it is believed that two plastic barrels containing some 300 lb of home-made explosive were placed beside the roadside hedge and detonated by command wire from a vantage point overlooking the scene . |
| 9 | For bungalows and flats where the accommodation is on one level only , it is envisaged that one smoke detector will be sufficient , unless the circulation route ( escape route ) is more than 15m . |
| 10 | It is claimed that one litre should support no less than 50 fish of one foot or less with its surface area of 800 square metres . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was written that one day you returned smelling of snow and very ill from winter . |
| 16 | At an early stage it was realised that one factor which can inhibit labour mobility is a lack of mutual understanding of qualification systems between member states . |
| 17 | It was said that one result of reading the Section as I read it would be this : that Mr Astor would be liable to pay tax in respect of the income received by the trustee in the United States as income deemed to be his ( Part XV ) and also likely to pay tax on the income which the trustee was bound to pay over , the latter being ( within the decision in [ Garland v Archer-Shee ( 1930 ) 15 TC 693 ] ) the income springing from a foreign possession , namely , his right of action against the trustee . |
| 18 | With the surrender of Germany and Turkey 's entry into the war , it was felt that one phase of our work was done , and that at last we could go home . |
| 19 | In Chapter 6 , it was suggested that one factor which contributed to the variations in fortune between different towns was the extent to which they had been affected by developments in the manufacture of cloth . |
| 20 | It was suggested that 400 passenger services be withdrawn or modified and 2,000 stations and 5,000 route miles closed to passenger traffic . |
| 21 | Some time ago it was suggested that three east coast sites , at Brough-on-Humber , Caister-by-Yarmouth and Rochester , possessed late second or early third-century fortifications which were different from the general run of urban defences of this date . |
| 22 | It was noted that large stocks of the Haler text book ( still selling well ) existed and after discussion it was agreed that two pallet loads held in store should be destroyed , leaving a stock of approximately 1000 . |
| 23 | It was found that one shot had gone right through the moored barrel . |
| 24 | Building on current practice in case conferences it was found that one difference was that a network meeting involved the client and unpaid informal or family carers , as well as representatives from statutory and voluntary agencies as appropriate . |
| 25 | In a study of the Panamanian rain forest tree , Tetragastris panamensis ( Burseraceae ) , visited by a wide range of animals , it was found that three mammal species accounted for over 97% of the seeds removed from the tree , the howler monkey ( Allouatta palliata ) alone being responsible for 74% . |
| 26 | Between January and April it was estimated that 563 government soldiers had been killed in clashes with the guerrillas . |
| 27 | It was proposed that 80,000-100,000 Greek-Cypriot displaced persons should be allowed to return to their homes in the northern part of the island . |
| 28 | It was known that one gene could influence several traits ( pleiotropism ) and that a single trait could be influenced by many genes ( polygenic inheritance ) . |
| 29 | Mr Appleby said he was told that one problem was that the crew did n't have time to clear the ferry properly because of the tight turnaround schedule en route . |