Example sentences of "[is] that [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What is known , is that approximately 200 enemy aircraft were encountered , in what was the most concentrated attack made on the 401st .
2 ‘ The truth is that even one drink can impair driving performance .
3 The sad reality is that nearly seventy years after Eglantine Jebb drafted the world 's first charter of children 's rights , the charter which became the foundation for the nineteen eighty nine U N convention .
4 The history of continuing post-war pressure by officers for a flatted development in the East End of North Shields is a fascinating one but for our purposes here what matters is that nearly 1000 flats and maisonettes were built , again at a higher unit cost than that of the contemporary construction of traditional dwellings .
5 The other proposition arising is that as two atoms touch , the gravitational force will maximise and crush them out of existence , unless the long range weak gravitational forcefield is balanced by a strong short range repulsive force .
6 The details are too uncertain for any useful discussion , but the meaning of the episode is that about 200 B.C. one Roman writer had deluded himself about his chances of importing fifth-century Athenian freedom of speech into Rome ( Cic .
7 Many more speakers and many more hours of speech are usually recorded than can ultimately be analysed ; a useful rule of thumb is that about ten hours will be needed to analyse each hour of recorded data .
8 The main drawback of the compose screen is that only two staves are displayed at any one time and it is not possible to smoothly scroll across the page which is divided into set sections .
9 Will he confirm that all the professional advice that he has received from the Royal Navy is that only four boats absolutely guarantees an effective nuclear deterrent for this country ?
10 The usual rule regarding magic items is that only one item of a specific type can be included .
11 ‘ A woman whose response to Chernobyl is that only thirty-one people were killed , who can dismiss as unimportant one of the world 's greatest nuclear disasters which put thousands in hospital , exposed a hundred thousand or more to dangerous radioactivity , devastated vast areas of land , and may result in deaths from cancer amounting to fifty thousand over the next fifty years , is totally unsuitable to be trusted to work in an atomic power station .
12 Despite what the hon. Gentleman has said , from which I do not dissent , the fact is that only 15 minutes of the time that the Prime Minister chaired the summit of the Group of Seven countries was spent on the environment .
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