Example sentences of "be [verb] that the [adj] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For MPs have been urging that the current nine per cent interest rate be cut again in a desperate bid to kickstart the economy . |
| 2 | A suitable break-point was taken on the death of Magnentius in 353 , and of the reports examined from 334 buildings , no less than 199 offered no satisfactory evidence and it could be argued that the remaining 135 hardly offer a sufficient quantity for any serious statistical study . |
| 3 | It should be noted that the required three-quarters width of 1.6 mm tread pattern grooves should be in a continuous band . |
| 4 | It has to be understood that the enormous 1982 crop was a welcome relief after the miserly vintages of 1978 , 1980 and 1981 . |
| 5 | As this work was done under carefully controlled conditions it must be concluded that the missing 40–50 per cent of bones were totally destroyed by the owls . |
| 6 | For some fifteen years now researchers wishing to have special tabulations compiled from the 1961 census of England and Wales have been refused due to ‘ technical difficulties ’ , and more recently it has been discovered that the machine-readable ten per cent sample of the 1971 census for Scotland is no longer accessible ( Marsh 1980 ; Schürer 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Each rider had taken four of his five allotted rides , and it was announced that the top four scorers , Eastbourne 's Andrew Silver , Cradley 's Simon Cross , Alan Mogridge , of Arena Essex , and home rider Richard Green , would progress to the semi-finals . |
| 8 | By 1985 it was recorded that the top 6 per cent of the population in income terms now received 25 per cent of national income , while for the poorest 20 per cent their share had actually fallen from even the 5.9 per cent they enjoyed in 1979 . |