Example sentences of "is [vb pp] that [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It is reported that on 22 March Nijazi Beqa and five other political prisoners there went on a hungers-strike against their conditions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It is reckoned that on one occasion 15000 people attended a prayer meeting in Armagh . |
| 8 | It is alleged that by 1989 30% of the world 's tropical sawlogs in trade were from the Malaysian state of Sarawak , where forest was being lost at a rate of 3 ha per minute and the resistance of the local Punan to this had been contained . |
| 9 | The hypothesis is advanced that for one set of parents the baptism is a religious ritual , whereas for the other it is a social one . |
| 10 | The story is told that on 25 March 1242 a ‘ man of vile condition called Massaccio ’ was walking in Via Falcone having , it is said , just lost all of his latest ill-gotten gains — ‘ vile condition ’ is a euphemism for criminal — at a local gaming house . |
| 11 | Estimates vary but it is thought that in 1574 the population of Prague was 5 per cent Catholic . |
| 12 | It is anticipated that over one hundred vehicles will be improved using the 1992/93 capital allocation . |
| 13 | Yet it is known that between one third and one half of mentally handicapped people currently resident in mental handicap hospitals should not be in hospital and could be either immediately discharged or discharged after a short period of training . |
| 14 | It is hoped that within two years Mr Stott will lead a management buy-out of the People , making it independent of the other Mirror titles . |
| 15 | But it is believed that between 50,000 and 100,000 people in this country , who are free of symptoms are likely to be carrying the virus . |
| 16 | The Bank of England has acted quickly to take advantage of the demand and it is believed that about one third of the 1992/93 funding programme has already been completed . |
| 17 | Under conditions of constant shear strain the relation becomes and if the boundary condition is assumed that at zero time , the solution to this equation is where σ o is the initial stress immediately after stretching the polymer . |
| 18 | If present trends continue , it is estimated that around 1 in 4 children will experience the divorce of their parents before they reach 16 ( Haskey , 1990 ) . |
| 19 | Yet women are less likely than men to leave paid employment at the statutory retirement age ; it is estimated that in 1990 22.7 per cent of women between the ages of 60 and 64 were economically active , compared with 14.4 per cent of men aged 65–9 ( Tinder , 1991 ) . |
| 20 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 21 | Fields already declared commercial are likely to produce at 100,000 barrels per day ( 5 million tonnes ) and it is predicted that by 1990 the Netherlands could be meeting some 20% of its oil requirements . |