Example sentences of "is [that] [num] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Among the claims is that five men accused in a rent boys scandal walked free after fears that gay judges would be named in court . |
| 2 | The only condition is that fifty acres of it remain as woodland . |
| 3 | The story is that four kings were on a journey to their coronation when , on the way , they wanted to stay at a hotel . |
| 4 | The present position is that 26 bishops may sit . |
| 5 | Having watched both the East End Park team and Kilmarnock in action against Raith this month , my guess is that two teams from Fife will compete in the Premier Division for the first time next season — provided Dunfermline get their act together in defence . |
| 6 | Also , a small point but one worth making , is that two coats of paint should suffice with today 's quality of paint . |
| 7 | What is happening is that two bones in the body are being pulled together and are wearing each other out . |
| 8 | What happens is that two companies virtually control distribution — Menzies and W H Smith . |
| 9 | In the situation given by demand curve D 2 , the implication is that two controls would be needed to ensure that the industry engaged in socially optimal performance ( see below ) . |
| 10 | What also remains a tantalising possibility is that two circles include a milestone as a marker . |
| 11 | In reproduction , one cell turns into two , whereas the essential feature of the sexual process is that two cells fuse to form one . |
| 12 | The point is that two guards were sacrificed by the authorities in order to achieve this control situation . |
| 13 | It is that two years , two and a quarter years ago I established a procedure in the Labour Party … ( uproar from audience ) . |
| 14 | The implication is that two injections are better than one , which is not always true , and that less strict glycaemic control is acceptable with a shorter expected lifespan , which seems reasonable . |
| 15 | With tuck the normal rule is that two needles side by side should n't tuck . |
| 16 | The answer to that is that nine times out of ten you do not know what you really want , you do not know your own mind and have not made a choice . |
| 17 | THE immediate impression emerging from the measures announced yesterday for Britain 's coal industry is that 12 pits and one Michael Heseltine have been reprieved . |
| 18 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 19 | What is known is that seven deaths on this motorway HAVE been attributed to it . |
| 20 | A good guideline on how much memory to use up with stitch patterns and still leave enough over for techniques and so forth , is that three patterns of the maximum size of 15,840 bits will take 47,520 bits . |
| 21 | One possible hypothesis — in fact the correct one — is that three surfaces meet at a point projecting towards the observer . |
| 22 | WHAT HAPPENS in Foucault 's Pendulum is that three editors at a Milan publishing house , vetting manuscripts for a series of books on the occult , decide to amuse themselves by connecting up every conspiracy theory advanced by their half-baked authors and fabricating an elaborate master-plan which explains the whole of world history . |
| 23 | The latest suggestion is that three clubs be relegated from the Premier Division next season , with only one gaining promotion from the First Division . |
| 24 | A snag with the T attenuator is that three resistors need to be adjusted to vary the attenuation yet maintain the input resistance equal to the load resistance . |
| 25 | The problem here is not one of authorship attribution , since most scholars regard them both as genuinely Aristotelian ; the puzzle is that three books make a double appearance in the manuscript tradition , once as books five , six and seven of the Nicomachean Ethics , once as books four , five and six of the Eudemian Ethics . |
| 26 | Another curiosity is that three parishes are cities — Ely , Ripon and Wells . |
| 27 | The first is that three nuns from the same order work in the largest of the villages , Kormakiti , and so we provide a useful link . |
| 28 | But the remarkable thing is that three years ago Euravia did n't exist at all — except in the mind of its founder , Denis Mendoros , who had only lately arrived from his native Greece . |
| 29 | In a marble group in the British Museum depicting the bull-slaying Mithra the most striking feature is that three spikes of wheat are shown issuing from the wound of the sacrificed bull . |