Example sentences of "[be] [verb] that [det] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed .
2 We now form v , unc as in ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) , and solve ( 11 ) for M. To sufficient accuracy , we find unc and then a new Yo is , with d chosen appropriately , unc and it may be checked that these two columns are , sufficiently nearly , orthogonal .
3 If a self-citation ( see 5.4 ) was , in the majority of cases , the first citation , it would be expected that these two values would be identical , because the first citation of the thesis would be in the author 's first related published paper .
4 Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all .
5 There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’
6 It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item .
7 But it should be remembered that these two policies are not to be treated as mutually exclusive : the fiscal position often has important ramifications for the conduct of monetary policy .
8 In the absence of any other constant characters it may be concluded that these two species are conspecific .
9 Considering the three /o/ words , it is clear that there are three different spelling patterns represented : It needs to be indicated that these three forms , plus the o of open , are the major ways in which the sound is spelled : in other words , when the pronunciation indicates the sound o , then it 's likely , depending on the position of the sound in the word , to be spelled like this : The oa is a medial spelling , but much rarer than o-e : boat , coat , float , goat , soap , throat .
10 It should be restated that these three aspects of policy , co-ordination , deregulation and development , can not always be neatly separated — there are grey areas .
11 We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them .
12 But the fact should also be faced that these two developments represent in microcosm what has happened and is happening in many of Britain 's older industrial towns .
13 In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 .
14 It has been estimated that these three cost categories can impact about 10 to 40 per cent of the well 's dryhole cost .
15 A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed .
16 In the future it is envisaged that all three methods will be available as alternative input techniques for computers , perhaps including shorthand as a fourth .
17 On top of this it is known that any one mould would only be in use between seven and fifteen years .
18 It is hoped that some 6,000 organisations could eventually benefit from involvement with the project .
19 In the city of Rome it is believed that some 40,000 insulae lined the streets and squares .
20 But it is believed that several dozen members of the last Parliament are still members .
21 In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives .
22 It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation .
23 It was expected that some 40-50 mergers per year would fall due for examination in this way .
24 On histological review , it was felt that these two tumours were more consistent with hepatocellular carcinoma than cholangiocarcinoma .
25 The Commission was told that all 13 hours of recordings of communications between the operations room of the SAP internal stability unit and police officers on the day of the massacre had been erased accidentally .
26 In the experiment it was found that all three methods produced results that were better than random selection — but the domain specific methods were far superior to the domain-general method ( DG was 27% better than chance , the DS methods both roughly twice as good as chance ) .
27 All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type .
28 In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 .
29 In Sweden in 1988 it was estimated that some 15,000 lakes were acidified , just over 1,800 of which were ‘ seriously ’ acidified ; 100,000 km of rivers and streams were also affected .
30 It was estimated that another 50,000 jobs in British factories and workshops had been sustained by it .
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