Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] that [num] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The one and only thing you share ultimately together is sex and if you step outside your marriage you are sharing that one ultimate thing with another body another person , ’ Claudette tells him . |
| 2 | WE are told that 13 million people plan to escape from polluted cities to the clean country — but who polluted the cities in the first place ? |
| 3 | But they 're warning that nineteen ninety three could be different — with new EC regulations allowing in a flood of dangerous fireworks from Europe . |
| 4 | It 's hoped that three thousand jobs will be created but now council leaders fear that , because of the recession , a buyer will be difficult to find . |
| 5 | I 'll give you another , it 's reckoned that ninety million tons of water , I 'll repeat that , ninety million tons of water , sufficient to supply the needs of this immediate area for over a hundred years , cascaded down off the moor that morning . |
| 6 | It 's estimated that 5,000 Somalian children are dying every day ; 3 every minute . |
| 7 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 8 | An idea of the magnitude of this quantity can be obtained if it is compared to the total population of New Jersey ( 7 344 000 ) or Ecuador ( 7 814 000 ) , or if it is realized that 7 602 138 seconds make 90 days and 10 hours . |
| 9 | It is estimated that seventy thousand old barns survive , many in poor condition . |
| 10 | It is estimated that one heavy rainstorm could bring disaster . |
| 11 | Based on a national postal survey to chief constables in 1986 , it is estimated that 75–80 000 young people are reported as missing each year in Britain ( De'Ath , 1987 ) . |
| 12 | It is expected that two Czechoslovak dissidents , spanning a 20-year period , will be chosen as joint winners to emphasise the durability of the movement towards liberalisation . |
| 13 | It is thought that two young were raised . |
| 14 | It is alleged that one British collector had 4000 trees felled in tracking down one particularly rare species in Colombia . |
| 15 | A few hours later that same day , it was announced that three young Protestants , John Orchin , Samuel Richmond and Victor McCready , had been charged with the murders of three Roman Catholics . |
| 16 | Last week it was revealed that two thousand people died in a single chemical attack . |
| 17 | In the report of the Committee of Inquiry into the Impact of Rates on Households , it was stated that 900,000 old people , living in 800,000 households , had incomes at , or below , the official poverty line ( Cmnd. 2582 , HMSO , 1965 ) . |
| 18 | Several of these were also in packages managed by other people and it was realised that two new modules would be required . |
| 19 | Recently it was shown that two inserted sequences of 21 and 10 amino acids were present near the actin binding site and Mg-ATPase domain respectively of the chicken nonmuscle MHC-B gene ( 21 ) . |
| 20 | It is interesting to note that the human gastric tumour cell line HGT-1 , which was derived from a primary tumour originating in an non-antral part of the stomach , had histamine 2 receptor which responded , maximally to much higher histamine concentrations of 10 - 3 to 10 - 4 M. Cells from the duodenum did not possess the histamine 2 receptor and in this study it was shown that two colorectal tumour cell lines did not seem to possess histamine 2 receptor indicating location of histamine 2 receptor may be confined to the gastric area . |
| 21 | Recently , it was shown that two independent EF-1α genes in Drosophila melanogaster expressed individually during development ( 5 ) . |
| 22 | It was found that one additional car was required on route 42 , to cover the slightly extended journey time . |
| 23 | In 1893 it was estimated that 60 000 organic compounds were known . |
| 24 | The most notorious was in 1984 when it was reported that two detained patients had been beaten to death by staff of Hotokukai Utsunomiya Hospital . |
| 25 | On April 22 it was reported that two Jewish brothers , Eli Swed and Selim Swed , had been released from prison . |
| 26 | On Sept. 14 it was reported that six political parties had combined to form a United Front of Political Movements ( UNIFORM ) . |
| 27 | On the same day it was reported that 40 Liberian rebels and one Sierra Leonean soldier had been killed in fighting in southern Sierra Leone . |
| 28 | It was reported that three elderly women died during the first Scud attack when they suffocated because they had failed to remove filter covers from their masks . |
| 29 | ‘ But wo n't they fall over the milk-crates ? ’ a teacher asked when it was proposed that two young children with severe visual problems should join the reception group . |
| 30 | When he was notified that 200 unemployed marchers were expected from Ampthill , however , he arranged for them to occupy the Drill Hall in George Street for sleeping and feeding . |