Example sentences of "be [verb] that [det] [num] " in BNC.

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1 Between six and ten years ago , there was a hundred and eighty pits in this country , yes a hundred and eighty pits , now we have a handful left and it has been leaked that all thirty one pits will still be closed within twelve months , done quietly and by the back door ignoring procedures and over the years this is what has been done .
2 He looked like an airline passenger who has just been told that all four engines on his 747 have just failed .
3 It has now been agreed that another two such seminars will be held and Douglas will shortly be asking for nominations to attend .
4 We now form v , unc as in ( 9 ) , ( 10 ) , and solve ( 11 ) for M. To sufficient accuracy , we find unc and then a new Yo is , with d chosen appropriately , unc and it may be checked that these two columns are , sufficiently nearly , orthogonal .
5 If a self-citation ( see 5.4 ) was , in the majority of cases , the first citation , it would be expected that these two values would be identical , because the first citation of the thesis would be in the author 's first related published paper .
6 It is only to be expected that these two rather different techniques , the Doppler shift technique and the " chirp radar " technique , would be useful for different special purposes .
7 There has been a strong movement in favour of delegalization and privatization of family and personal matters ; but when moral panic breaks out law continues to be invoked as ‘ binding on everyone in society , whatever their beliefs … the embodiment of a common moral position ’ , despite the recognition that ‘ in our pluralistic society it is not to be expected that any one set of principles can be enunciated to be completely accepted by everyone . ’
8 Each of these subjects involves a highly intricate body of law , and it is not to be expected that any one man or even three or four men can master them all .
9 It will be seen that all three of these matters must have a special importance when the transaction in question is one of suretyship and the wife without any recompense , except the advantage of her husband , saddles herself or her separate property with a liability for his debt or debts .
10 It can be seen that these two main goals overlap to a considerable extent , but that emphasis for the end-user lies within a subject area and is therefore closely dependent on subject knowledge , whereas emphasis for the intermediary lies on breadth of knowledge — on the coverage and organization of many databases and the operation of a number of processing systems .
11 It will be noticed that these two items have common elements ; their time periods overlap , so that anyone doing a comprehensive study on the first half of the twentieth century would want both items if he was really very thorough , and the interest of Women 's Liberation students would be caught by the first item and by part of the second item .
12 It may thus be noted that these two solitonic terms provide the conditions for continuity on the two different null boundaries of region IV .
13 Even then it must be remembered that some 65 per cent by value of sales is to non-ICI customers — and many of these are also overseas , with Europe accounting for the greater part of both internal and external business .
14 But it should be remembered that these two policies are not to be treated as mutually exclusive : the fiscal position often has important ramifications for the conduct of monetary policy .
15 In the absence of any other constant characters it may be concluded that these two species are conspecific .
16 But it can be assumed that many millions of poor rural women are caught in a vicious cycle : they eat food to get human energy , and then spend all this energy in producing food and collecting the energy needed to cook it .
17 Considering the three /o/ words , it is clear that there are three different spelling patterns represented : It needs to be indicated that these three forms , plus the o of open , are the major ways in which the sound is spelled : in other words , when the pronunciation indicates the sound o , then it 's likely , depending on the position of the sound in the word , to be spelled like this : The oa is a medial spelling , but much rarer than o-e : boat , coat , float , goat , soap , throat .
18 It should be restated that these three aspects of policy , co-ordination , deregulation and development , can not always be neatly separated — there are grey areas .
19 We do n't have a dishwasher either but I 'm assured that these two things can Totally Change Your Life and you wonder how you ever lived without them .
20 But the fact should also be faced that these two developments represent in microcosm what has happened and is happening in many of Britain 's older industrial towns .
21 In July 1991 it had been announced that some 200 investigations into shootings by border guards would be undertaken ; a second trial of border guards had begun in December 1991 .
22 It has been estimated that many thousands of kung fu styles exist in Asia today .
23 It has been estimated that these three cost categories can impact about 10 to 40 per cent of the well 's dryhole cost .
24 It has been estimated that some 85 per cent of these are of Augustan date .
25 In the United States it is reported that some 35 million heart attacks and strokes occur each year .
26 It is accepted that some 10 to 15 per cent of cases are seen outside the clinics by private or general practitioners , and it is unusual for these cases to be reported to the Department of Health .
27 A search of the area is still going on , but it 's thought that all 99 passengers and fourteen crew were killed .
28 In the future it is envisaged that all three methods will be available as alternative input techniques for computers , perhaps including shorthand as a fourth .
29 For example , though it is known that some 80 per cent of pedestrian fatalities in Britain occur on built-up roads , statistics are not available separately for residential areas .
30 On top of this it is known that any one mould would only be in use between seven and fifteen years .
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