Example sentences of "it [verb] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On Aug. 18 , however , the UK government did an about-turn when it announced that 1,800 soldiers would be placed at the disposal of the UN in order to ensure the protection of humanitarian convoys in Bosnia-Hercegovina .
2 It reported that nine people had been released in January , and one other released on bail .
3 Nalgo said it estimated that 100,000 jobs will be lost in local government and the health service in the next financial year .
4 It assumed that 27 vehicles had been involved , closing both carriageways .
5 It says that two networks are already connected at 2Mbps , and a further four — including three interfacing via TCP/IP — are expected to connect at 2Mbps in the next few months .
6 It says that 340,000 people with two jobs are being double counted , and there is a discrepancy of one million between the numbers claimed to be in self-employment and those self-employed people paying national insurance .
7 Conscious that security may prove to be a major concern for users , NCR has been pushing the system 's in-built security features : it says that three levels are provided .
8 Briefly , it stated that sixty-six coupons had been considered adequate for normal use .
9 In a recent survey for the Glenpatrick News , it showed that twenty percent of the Elderslie workforce have twenty five or more years service .
10 Most significantly , it states that one reason not to have a comprehensive nuclear-test ban is that it is almost impossible to distinguish small underground tests from earthquakes and conventional explosions .
11 The central " roundel " is not round ; the outer , stencilled , circular band is squashed and poorly centred ( thus effecting the irregular drawing of the band of superposed triangles ) ; and it appears that two trees and one animal have been omitted .
12 It appears that one Christmas a stockbroker searching for a present went into a pet shop in the Square Mile .
13 But , it is equally vital to recognize that the reversal of reforms began well before Mao 's victory in China in 1949 , indeed , it appears that one section of the US occupation was anticipating a reversal almost as the constitution was being drafted .
14 Numbers are very small , and of course tabular data are only an extremely crude summary of a very complex range of feelings ; however ( excluding those whose attitudes were not known or impossible to summarise ) , it appears that three carers in the action samples felt the strain had lightened , four that it had remained the same and five that it had worsened .
15 Judging from entries made in burial registers it appears that three days was the average length of delay .
16 And so is that instant of anticipation when it seems that two bodies must collide , brutally , and one is helpless to stop it .
17 This one-man effort had its advantages , for it meant that one mind was responsible for the training , rather like the method which our Lord followed with his disciples , or the Buddha with his .
18 No two boys and a girl , so it meant that two boys have to share a bedroom which they were n't doing in that other house and David 's been unemployed well
19 It follows that one question doubtless uppermost in shareholders ' minds at this initial meeting will be price .
20 It follows that one person can not impose a contract upon another .
21 If we print all this area from within a rubberband box , as we have been doing , it means that four sections of the printout will make up the width of the design and the height will need the total height of squares used for the design , divided by 38 .
22 With a squad of 16 it means that five players spend a majority of their time watching .
23 However , in reports between April 30 and May 2 quoting human rights activists , it emerged that 42 people had been killed and that 28 others were seriously wounded by the security forces .
24 It emerged that two versions of the job advert existed , the second offering the job at £29.50 for a 40-hour week .
25 It appeared that 30 Estonians had attempted to seize premises currently belonging to the Russian military , but due to be handed over to Estonia .
26 It appeared that 12 cousins were at Mr Farrington 's funeral .
27 Until recently , it appeared that 300 megabytes was probably the limit of the technology but now magnetic media enthusiasts are talking about gigabytes ( thousands of megabytes ) soon becoming commercially available .
28 It estimates that 42,000 people will leave this year , 55,000 next year , and perhaps up to 60,000 the year after .
29 He will recall that , when British Rail proposed that Waterloo should be the first channel tunnel station , not only did it say that one station was sufficient and that it did not need a second one but , in the case which it put to the House of Lords during the discussions , it said specifically that King 's Cross was not an appropriate location for a second station .
30 What difference do you think it makes that three quarters of the news desk are women ?
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