Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] [that] [adj] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first survey ever of such tests has found that another 59 companies say they may start testing . |
| 2 | The German Environment Minister , Klaus Töpfer , has announced that 15 billion Deutschmarks ( £6.3 bn ) will be made available for cleaning up the estimated 70,000 hazardous waste dumps in former East Germany . |
| 3 | Hamilton has estimated that these two projects and the offshore development will create some 3,000 construction jobs and over 200 permanent jobs . |
| 4 | British Gas has warned that twenty thousand jobs could go if its monopoly is ended as suggested in a report by the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman who seems to suggest that those 13,000 majorities might not be so solid is , of course , right . |
| 6 | It is recognised that the established electoral system does discriminate against third parties securing seats in proportion to votes , but this is defended because of the virtues that are seen as flowing from the fact that the system helps to ensure that just one party has a secure majority in the Commons and is therefore able to form a government without the need for coalition . |
| 7 | Nonetheless , approximately 40% of those questioned still have separate computer and telecommunications departments , although Pflug does predict that these two functions will converge rapidly over the next three to five years . |