Example sentences of "is [verb] that [prep] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 2 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |