Example sentences of "[conj] it be [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 2 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 3 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 4 | International outrage at deteriorating conditions in Turkish refugee camps in the mountainous border region around Isikveren led the government to announce on April 14 that it was moving 200,000 refugees to prepared sites near Silopi , about 50 km inside Turkey . |
| 5 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 6 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 7 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 8 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 9 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 10 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |
| 11 | There is a 50 gallon mark on the 4′ tank but I have filled it higher than that and it is holding 65 gallons . |
| 12 | Despite the strong reception for the Prolinea machines , Compaq does not believe it is out of the woods yet and it is cutting 1,000 employees or 10% from its worldwide workforce over the next few months , with 700 to go this month , including 100 in Scotland . |
| 13 | The royal physician dressed the corpse for buried and it was interred eleven days later at Jedburgh . |
| 14 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 15 | The CNAA had already approved a dozen of Hatfield 's courses for honours degrees , and it was to have twenty degree courses by 1968 , establishing a pattern of honours degree , degree and sub-degree courses . |
| 16 | The doctrine that mental disease did not have a physical cause became widely established , so much so that a study published in 1915 which reported definite changes in the left cerebral hemispheres of schizophrenic patients was largely ignored until it was rediscovered 70 years later . |
| 17 | Well I suppose if it was raining one night she might have done . |
| 18 | more public expenditure : the King 's Fund researchers provided a tentative estimate that spending would have had to be just under £400 million higher in 1987/88 if it was to match 1981/82 levels , taking into account changing demand and technology ; |
| 19 | Marketing chief Peter Sadler was unavailable to comment on the launch plans , but it is thought four agencies have been lined up to pitch for the business . |
| 20 | The house is very charming but it 's taken 20 years to get to the present condition . |
| 21 | Now they are exchanging information right away , and not waiting till it is published two years later in a scientific journal . ’ |
| 22 | While it was printing two things happened . |
| 23 | RICHMOND Royal Park in southwest London has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest because of the wildlife preserved there since it was created three centuries ago . |
| 24 | Since it was restructured five years ago ( see Nature 332 , 197 ; 1988 ) , the CSIR has tried to obtain a larger proportion of its income from both the private and public sectors for consulting . |
| 25 | It has a proven track record , creating 71,000 new job opportunities since it was formed seven years ago . |
| 26 | Microsoft Corp told Reuter that its retail shipments of the MS-DOS 6 upgrade , which have sold more than 2m copies worldwide since it was introduced two weeks ago , are supply-constrained — it just ca n't duplicate the thing fast enough . |
| 27 | The discovery that oriented bars and edges were the trigger features for neurons in the visual cortex was enormously exciting when it was made thirty years ago , but Levick followed up their discovery and found that there are orientation selective neurons in rabbit retina as well as the directionally selective ones shown in Figure 4 . |
| 28 | INVESTORS who piled into North West Water when it was floated three years ago are on the crest of a wave . |
| 29 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 30 | Die Hard 's action sequences won rave reviews when it was released four years ago . |