Example sentences of "be [vb pp] that [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has been calculated that in 1922 an average of 38 minutes would be spent on going to work and coming back , with a working day of between 14 and 15 hours in the warmer months . |
| 2 | The Diocese of Durham has been told that in 1992 budgets must be cut by £120,000 , equivalent to the stipends of nine clergy . |
| 3 | Looking at different parts of the tropical world , it has been noted that by 1981 only 20% of all rain forests including tropical ones in Australia remained when compared with the total at European settlement ( 1788 ) and that there were only a few thousand ha left in northern Queensland , all accessible forest outside National Parks having been ( or likely to be ) logged , leaving an archipelago of ‘ refugia ’ . |
| 4 | It can be calculated that during 1979 , 18 000 women will attend clinics in England suffering from chlamydial infection , which they have no hope of getting diagnosed and therefore treated . |
| 5 | Moreover , it should not be forgotten that in 1823 Moët & Chandon purchased the Abbey of Hautvillers , along with its vineyards , and they certainly ( to their credit ) can not be accused of allowing the legend of Dom Pérignon to die . |
| 6 | When the increases in the money supply are expressed as percentages of adjusted social product , it can be seen that between 1977 and 1985 the government normally took about 6–7 per cent of the social product for extra-budgetary purposes ( 1983 was the major exception ) . |
| 7 | From the second column of the table it can be seen that in 1977–8 , before the crisis year of 1979 , the money supply was growing faster than the cost of living . |
| 8 | I am not so bothered about losing the repeat in the Andante cantabile of K548 , although that to is a lovely work — it might be argued that at 12:44 , the London Fortepiano Trio 's performance of this movement is too much of a good thing ! |
| 9 | Yet although the hardening of lines seems ominous in retrospect and the thin tie of Reinsurance could hardly have linked Russia and Germany for long , it could be argued that in 1888 Bismarck 's system was still successful . |
| 10 | It may be thought that in 8 we have an equation which indicates ( wrongly ) that — at is a semantic constituent : |
| 11 | ( It must be recognised that for one large group — that in which there is a strong belief in the sanctity and factual indissolubility of marriage — such considerations come much less easily : but in reality , even for this group , it is not now an impossibility for marital breakdown and separation , or nullification of the union , to take Place . ) |
| 12 | To gain an impression of the size of individual enterprises , it may be noted that in 1985 165 companies in the UK employed over 10,000 people , 36 over 50,000 , and 11 over 100,000 . |
| 13 | Although there have been recent price falls it should be remembered that in 1973 crude oil cost $2 a barrel . |
| 14 | The sheet then recorded that Mr. Bell had been charged that on 15 February 1990 he was guilty of drunk and disorderly behaviour in Faulkner Street , Liverpool , contrary to section 91 of the Criminal Justice Act 1967 , and that on 1 February 1990 Mr. Bell was committed to the Liverpool Crown Court and was released on bail under a duty to surrender into the custody of the said court at such time and date as would be notified to him ‘ and Constable 677F Whittaker alleges that you have broken conditions of your bail not to approach Bridget Coffey . ’ |
| 15 | The scheme has certainly helped to attract manufacturing firms , and it has been estimated that between 1957 and 1977 some 5,000 new jobs were created in 113 factories , many of which were engineering or clothing firms ( Broady 1980 ) . |
| 16 | In contrast , it has been estimated that between 0.5 and 1.1 million people are employed in private and public pollution control ( Harris , 1981 ; Kazis and Grossman , 1982 ) . |
| 17 | It has been estimated that between 1580 and 1650 London probably absorbed half the national increase of England 's population and that about one in every eight English people lived in London at some stage of their lives ; after 1650 the proportion was as high as one in six . |
| 18 | While kin are a major source of support , especially when elderly people become unable to live on their own , a considerable number of the elderly have no kin to turn to for assistance : it has been estimated that about one quarter of elderly women aged 60 in the early 1970s had no surviving children ( but the proportion will drop in years to come ) ( Timaeus , 1986 ) . |
| 19 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 20 | Because of the projected increase in the numbers aged 85 and over , ti has been estimated that by 2000 , it will cost the NHS an additional £400 million a year , and more in later years ( Britain in 2010 , The PSI Report , 1991 ) . |
| 21 | We were told that in one area there was a high degree of labour turnover among women . |
| 22 | We were told that in 1988 , when life sentences for murder were passed in 150 cases , only 10 minimum recommendations were made . |
| 23 | We were told that after 1948 the revenue sought to tax at least two categories of employees in receipt of in-house benefits . |
| 24 | For several years Spain has been the biggest source of sales for the majority of ELT publishers ; indeed , it is reported that for one of the smaller players it represents a dangerous 50% of turnover . |
| 25 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 26 | Consequently , it is forecast that in 1992 our inflation rate will be below even the German average , which at the moment is 3.5 per cent . |
| 27 | It is said that on one occasion Prince Napoleon accused the Emperor of having inherited ‘ nothing of the Great Emperor ’ , to which Napoleon III replied ‘ Yes , the family ’ . |
| 28 | It is said that aged three Gauss corrected an error in a wages list , whilst aged eight ( some say ten ) he wrote down in moments the answer to the following problem set in class : add together all the integers from 1 to 100 . |
| 29 | It is said that in 1789 he was introduced to George III by a wealthy cousin , also called John Bridge , who shared the monarch 's interest in farming . |
| 30 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |