Example sentences of "be [verb] that [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Diocese of Durham has been told that in 1992 budgets must be cut by £120,000 , equivalent to the stipends of nine clergy . |
| 2 | Publishing exam results is fine — We have been saying that for three years , but as the Secretary of State managed to point out in his contorted evidence to the teachers ' pay review body , exam results alone provide only an elementary indication of the effectiveness of a school . |
| 3 | Moreover , it should not be forgotten that in 1823 Moët & Chandon purchased the Abbey of Hautvillers , along with its vineyards , and they certainly ( to their credit ) can not be accused of allowing the legend of Dom Pérignon to die . |
| 4 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |
| 5 | ‘ Or in future I 'm hoping that on three days a week when ye feel like it . ’ |
| 6 | The sheet then recorded that Mr. Bell had been charged that on 15 February 1990 he was guilty of drunk and disorderly behaviour in Faulkner Street , Liverpool , contrary to section 91 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and that on 1 February 1990 Mr. Bell was committed to the Liverpool Crown Court and was released on bail under a duty to surrender into the custody of the said court at such time and date as would be notified to him ‘ and Constable 677F Whittaker alleges that you have broken conditions of your bail not to approach Bridget Coffey . ’ |
| 7 | While kin are a major source of support , especially when elderly people become unable to live on their own , a considerable number of the elderly have no kin to turn to for assistance : it has been estimated that about one quarter of elderly women aged 60 in the early 1970s had no surviving children ( but the proportion will drop in years to come ) ( Timaeus , 1986 ) . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 9 | We were told that in one area there was a high degree of labour turnover among women . |
| 10 | It also led to some staff cuts and by the spring of 1989 the leaders of the fusion programmes were anticipating that after five years of no increases to match inflation , Congress would make a twenty million dollar cut in the fusion budget . |
| 11 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 12 | It is said that on one occasion Prince Napoleon accused the Emperor of having inherited ‘ nothing of the Great Emperor ’ , to which Napoleon III replied ‘ Yes , the family ’ . |
| 13 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 14 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
| 15 | It is alleged that by 1989 30% of the world 's tropical sawlogs in trade were from the Malaysian state of Sarawak , where forest was being lost at a rate of 3 ha per minute and the resistance of the local Punan to this had been contained . |
| 16 | The hypothesis is advanced that for one set of parents the baptism is a religious ritual , whereas for the other it is a social one . |
| 17 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
| 18 | It is hoped that within two years Mr Stott will lead a management buy-out of the People , making it independent of the other Mirror titles . |
| 19 | Under conditions of constant shear strain the relation becomes and if the boundary condition is assumed that at zero time , the solution to this equation is where σ o is the initial stress immediately after stretching the polymer . |
| 20 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 21 | The procedure is often of great value , but it 's suggested that for two reasons it should only be used in urgent cases — both out of consideration for Land Registry staff , and to avoid the possibility of their being swamped by too many such applications , resulting in delay , which would defeat the whole purpose of the operation . |
| 22 | On the Gouveneur-Generaal Loudon , it was reported that at one time dust and water were falling together , as mud , and a thickness of fifteen centimetres accumulated in only ten minutes . |
| 23 | It was reported that in 1989 North Korea had 12 concentration camps ( four more than in 1982 ) holding 152,000 prisoners undergoing forced labour and re-education . |
| 24 | It was noted that on two occasions members of the committee collected subscriptions in the treasurer 's absence . |
| 25 | On 30 April 1991 , the applicant , the chairman and managing director of a company , was charged that between 1 January 1985 and 29 April 1991 he had knowingly been a party to the carrying on of the business of the company with intent to defraud its creditors , contrary to section 458 of the Companies Act 1985 . |
| 26 | It was estimated that in 1990 Japan 's drift net fishery was responsible for the deaths of 41,000,000 sea creatures other than those it was seeking to catch . |