Example sentences of "be [verb] that [det] [num] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | It is hoped that some 6,000 organisations could eventually benefit from involvement with the project . |
| 32 | Managing director Albero Sandoval places the potential market at 100,000 users , predicting that this will rise to 600,000 subscribers over the next 10 years , of which it is hoped that some 300,000 will use Sistelcom 's system . |
| 33 | In the city of Rome it is believed that some 40,000 insulae lined the streets and squares . |
| 34 | But it is believed that several dozen members of the last Parliament are still members . |
| 35 | Half of all animal extinctions have occurred this century and it is believed that another one million species could be lost by the year 2000 , which works out at over 270 extinctions every day for the next ten years . |
| 36 | In the Indian subcontinent , where large numbers of people work on the land , it is estimated that many thousands of people die from snake bites every year . |
| 37 | It is estimated that another 40 heavy lorries will be on the roads every week to replace the 24 wagon train which runs to St Helens and Edinburgh carrying 520 tonnes of cider and four loads of electrical light fittings . |
| 38 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 39 | Now it is estimated that some 38 per cent of people are literate — but the figure for women is only 22 per cent . |
| 40 | In this brutal war , it is estimated that some 60,000 civilians were killed up to 1989 , before the 1989 to 1990 round of fighting which is thought to have claimed over a thousand lives . |
| 41 | It is estimated that some 30 per cent of the overhead and marketing budget represents the cost of production and distribution of brochures . |
| 42 | It has been suggested that these two projects could form a pincer movement to circumscribe the operations of hierarchic managements pursuing the profitability of the enterprises which employ them without regard to the interests of working people , and therefore to reconstruct the impersonal possession of the means of production in the direction of ( socialist ) social appropriation . |
| 43 | On Aug. 28 , it was reported that some 1,000 Italian troops would assist with the distribution of US$85,000,000 worth of Italian food aid , sufficient to meet Albania 's requirement for three months . |
| 44 | It was expected that some 40-50 mergers per year would fall due for examination in this way . |
| 45 | On histological review , it was felt that these two tumours were more consistent with hepatocellular carcinoma than cholangiocarcinoma . |
| 46 | The Commission was told that all 13 hours of recordings of communications between the operations room of the SAP internal stability unit and police officers on the day of the massacre had been erased accidentally . |
| 47 | The court was told that all three were now grown up , with the girls 27 and 31 , and had only just revealed their ordeal at the hands of their stepfather . |
| 48 | In the experiment it was found that all three methods produced results that were better than random selection — but the domain specific methods were far superior to the domain-general method ( DG was 27% better than chance , the DS methods both roughly twice as good as chance ) . |
| 49 | In the early 1840's it was computed that some 240 or so adult male workers found employment at the mines . |
| 50 | Of these 133 new Majlis members , it was estimated that some 55 were supporters of Rafsanjani and that many of the remainder were reported to be independent candidates likely to align themselves with the President 's faction . |
| 51 | All in all , in 1975 it was estimated that some 145,000 persons lived in a mobile home of some type . |
| 52 | In all , it was estimated that some 110 bills — all of which sought to restrict access to abortion to some degree — had been introduced in 47 state legislatures since July 1989 . |
| 53 | In Sweden in 1988 it was estimated that some 15,000 lakes were acidified , just over 1,800 of which were ‘ seriously ’ acidified ; 100,000 km of rivers and streams were also affected . |
| 54 | It was estimated that another 50,000 jobs in British factories and workshops had been sustained by it . |
| 55 | Already he was arguing that these three different ideologies were facets of the same truth . |
| 56 | They said the outlandish sect was warned that some 100 agents were about to try to arrest Koresh on weapons charges . |