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

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1 It has been stated that one of the justifications for the American business judgment rule is that it limits ‘ judicial intrusiveness with respect to private-sector decisionmaking ’ .
2 It has been observed that two out of three fiction readers in libraries do not look at the text of a book before choosing it .
3 Although average stocking rates for beef cows would be around one ha/cow it has been demonstrated that 0.4 ha/cow ( 1 acre/ cow ) of productive grassland with moderate nitrogen fertiliser inputs will meet grazing requirements and produce a substantial part of the winter feed requirements .
4 Indeed it has been argued that 1945 to 1951 was government by committee — hundreds of them — rather than Government by Cabinet .
5 Within the State Department it has been argued that two competing strategies — one ‘ Asian-oriented ’ and the other ‘ Europe-oriented ’ — had emerged and that the critical question was whether the US should have insisted on French concessions to Vietnamese nationalism as a condition of US support .
6 In addition it has been claimed that one of the tones is the level tone , which by definition may not have any pitch movement .
7 However , it has been suggested that 50-60 clinical cases occur in Britain each year , sine many are not recorded .
8 The inquiry of 1259 was never put into effect , and it has been suggested that one reason for Edward 's visit to Gascony in 1273 was the ‘ desire to proceed to this measure ’ .
9 ( It has been suggested that one method by which a written constitution could be entrenched could be by " manufacturing " such a change in the norm of validity by altering the terms of the judicial oath so that judges would swear to uphold only laws which were in conformity with the constitutional provisions — per H. W. R. Wade , 1989 Hamlyn Lecture : Constitutional Fundamentals ) .
10 It has been suggested that one reason for Eadwine 's preferential treatment of the Kentish kingdom was the location there of the southern archbishopric at Canterbury , and there certainly emerged at this time a clear intention to implement Pope Gregory the Great 's original plan for two archiepiscopal sees among the Anglo-Saxons .
11 It has been shown that 10 per cent of the 400 people interviewed in Birmingham had given a lower age to gain admission to Britain , and now can not gain a pension at the proper time ( Bhalla and Blakemore , 1981 ) .
12 In Lindsey ( Eagles 1979 , pp. 177–8 ) it has been shown that 11 per cent are on such boundaries and 18 per cent within 500 feet .
13 It has been shown that one of the basic criticisms of ‘ boy labour ’ was the ‘ decay ’ or ‘ decline ’ of ‘ old-style ’ apprenticeship under the impact of excessive specialization of process which resulted in a ‘ dilution ’ of apprenticeship proper .
14 An inquest has been told that two tyres on one of the cars involved were seriously under-inflated .
15 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 .
16 It has been found that ninety-eight per cent of young adults ( with normal hearing ) in a sound-proof room can ‘ hear something ’ , mostly the sound of steam or a ringing noise .
17 It has been estimated that one farmworker loses his job for every 750 acres of set-aside .
18 In Europe , it has been estimated that one quarter of road traffic deaths and 10 per cent of injuries are associated with alcohol .
19 It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast .
20 It is worth emphasising again the ‘ dark ’ statistics of unreported crime , which is particularly relevant here where it has been estimated that 70 per cent of computer crime is unreported , because of the fear of loss of public confidence in the financial institutions concerned .
21 It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals .
22 In Britain there are 100,000 convictions annually for driving under the influence of drink and it has been estimated that 20 per cent of all hospital admissions are associated with alcohol in some way .
23 It has been estimated that 60 per cent of the fascist elite had been members of the armed forces and over 40 per cent saw active service in the first World War .
24 In Britain , it has been estimated that 73 % of the male population over 65 were occupied in 1881 , but by 1981 this had reduced to only 11 % ( Johnson , 1985 ) .
25 It has been estimated that three million elderly people in Britain are at risk .
26 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 .
27 ‘ But I understood that it had been arranged that one of us was to go into each room . ’
28 I had been complaining that one day I must become a good daughter again and go back home for a visit .
29 It had been hoped that three good performances in the so-called US ‘ 93 Cup would give Mr Taylor and his team some much-needed breathing space .
30 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 .
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