Example sentences of "[that] it be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Coal has confirmed that it 's to shed thirty thousand jobs as it closes more than thirty pits due to a fall in demand . |
| 2 | He says that it 's taken twenty years to build up the business , but they 'll just have to start all over again . |
| 3 | The nationalised industry announced that it is to close 31 pits , which will result in 30,000 job losses . |
| 4 | EURO Disney plunged 29p to £9.33p after it announced that it is closing one of its six hotels for the winter . |
| 5 | The company said last October that it was expecting 20,000 subscribers by year-end , but at the start of March it had signed just 8,500 to the service . |
| 6 | William looked up at the clock and saw that it was nearing four o'clock . |
| 7 | International outrage at deteriorating conditions in Turkish refugee camps in the mountainous border region around Isikveren led the government to announce on April 14 that it was moving 200,000 refugees to prepared sites near Silopi , about 50 km inside Turkey . |
| 8 | The company confirmed last week that it was providing 10 nurses and two doctors at the Wolds and that the staffing arrangements could be increased or reduced according to demand . |
| 9 | Aer Lingus , the Irish Republic 's national airline , confirmed that it was facing two charges in the United States that a subsidiary company illegally supplied aircraft parts to Iran . |
| 10 | The fragment sheds some illumination on what it was like to be a feminist 50 years ago , though we would point out that it was written 20 years after the event with all the problems of interpretation that implies . |
| 11 | Sierra Leone announced that it was sending 2,000 men to the border area after rebels from Liberia killed 25 people during raids . |
| 12 | The Eritrean People 's Liberation Front ( EPLF ) announced on Jan. 1 that it was freeing 10,000 Ethiopian prisoners of war . |
| 13 | The EMD also announced on Dec. 12 that it was dissolving P-27 after the weekly paper Weltwoche revealed the identity of its head . |
| 14 | Mr Livingstone argued that the move towards unity was merely the normal pre-election loyalty which the party usually showed ; the only difference this time was that it was happening 18 months earlier than normal . |
| 15 | On Dec. 20 the government announced that it was expelling two Palestinian brothers suspected of links with Sabri Khalil al Banna ( " Abu Nidal " ) , the leader of the Fatah Revolutionary Council . |
| 16 | Following the spate of job losses suffered by the manufacturing sector in October [ see p. 39159 ] , British Rail ( which was one of the government 's key candidates for privatization but which was suffering a massive decline in revenue as a result of the continuing recession ) announced on Nov. 19 that it was declaring 5,000 voluntary or compulsory redundancies over the next four months . |
| 17 | In the middle of all this , the Burton Group 's announcement that it was cutting 2,000 jobs came as rather a rude shock . |