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 ? |