Example sentences of "be [verb] that [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has long been recognized that five factors control the nature of soil development : climate , parent material , topoy , organic activity and time . |
| 2 | It had also been reported that 37 prisoners in the Central Prison at Kenitra ( 50 km from Rabat ) took part in a 24-hour hunger strike on Dec. 10 , 1988 , in protest against prison conditions and alleged repression of prisoners ' families . |
| 3 | An inquest has been told that two tyres on one of the cars involved were seriously under-inflated . |
| 4 | A court has been told that three men accused of killing twin sisters in a barn fire shouted to them to get out before the men themselves ran away . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm told that nine inches of rain fell during the twenty-four hours prior to the flood , and that five of those inches were in one single hour , ’ he said . |
| 6 | It might be noted that 6 teams report a membership of more than 20 people . |
| 7 | It 's been announced that seventy jobs are to go at two research establishments — A-E-A Technology is laying off forty maintenance staff at Harwell , and thirty engineers at nearby Culham . |
| 8 | On Jan. 25 it had been announced that 50,000 tonnes of cereals supplied as famine relief by the EC would be distributed in Sudan through Danish and UK relief agencies . |
| 9 | Miles ( 1962 , reviewed in Georgiades and Phillimore , 1975 ) had found that , although the rate of implementation of changed practices in institutions had improved from 1930 ( when it had been estimated that fifteen years needed to elapse before something like 3 per cent of schools adopted a particular change ) , in the 1960s it still required seven years before 11 per cent of schools adopted an innovation . |
| 10 | In a case which is causing the Bar much embarrassment , Lord Justice Watkins and Mr Justice Garland were told that six barristers followed Sir Ian , while 11 decided to stay with Mr John Samuels , QC , who was in charge of chambers administration . |
| 11 | Now I 'm not getting at you or Peter Underhill , both of being excellent fellows ; but this is just the sort of thing I predicted would happen twenty years ago when we , as a country , started to ‘ go metric ’ and were assured that five years would see it done . |
| 12 | An engineering expert in stress told me that it has recently been discovered that two pieces of metal , indistinguishable unless subjected to sophisticated tests , react differently to precisely the same amount of stress . |
| 13 | At peak times it is expected that two transfers a week between the archive and the Working-Set and vice versa will occur , and that material will be sent for composition twice a week during peak use . |
| 14 | It is expected that three quarters of the titanium tetrachloride can be recovered , reducing raw materials costs by £600,000 a year . |
| 15 | Now the first day is more for dealers than debutantes : it is said that 10 pictures are sold every minute . |
| 16 | It is thought that 16 months should provide sufficient time for new pension arrangements to be set up , but if difficulties arose the powers in clause 12 would be available to the Secretary of State . |
| 17 | It is anticipated that 3000 terminals will eventually be connected . |
| 18 | By the end of this century , it is hoped that 11,000 students will be benefiting from a Bristol education , an increase of 50% on current student numbers . |
| 19 | Only eight weeks before the sale , Christie 's announced that sixty-six drawings were to be auctioned without first being offered to any national institution by their owner , Viscount Coke . |
| 20 | It is believed that 96 followers of Koresh , including 17 children , remain inside the compound . |
| 21 | No Monday last , when the designs were first displayed to the public , it is believed that 10,000 persons visited the exhibition ; on Tuesday , when the crowd was somewhat less , 7,000 were present ; and on Wednesday the numbers again reached to 10,000 . |
| 22 | It is estimated that 60,000 sites are worthy of scheduling . |
| 23 | Of an edition of Luther 's Bible printed in Wittenberg in 1534 , it is estimated that 100,000 copies were sold in forty years . |
| 24 | It is estimated that 1,000 courses were built in England in 1990 alone . |
| 25 | It is estimated that 1,000 units could be sold at £1 each . |
| 26 | From these figures , it was calculated that it would take some 100 years for the cut and cut-and-burnt sites to attain biomass levels of the original forest , while for the bulldozed forests , it is estimated that 1000 years would be needed . |
| 27 | Worst affected is Somalia , where it 's estimated that three children are dying every minute . |
| 28 | From one of these , situated within half a mile of the proposed Chirbury Station , it is stated that 10,000 tons are annually raised for local requirements , and that easy and cheap means of transit , such has the railway would supply , are only required to bring it into extensive use . |
| 29 | It is suggested that 2 machines required for horticulture , and 1 for library . |
| 30 | Using the end point of investigator 's assessment of remission , it was calculated that 226 patients were required to show that fluticasone propionate was at worst 15% inferior to prednisolone . |