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

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1 I was also charmed that one lady called me Rosemary Clooney !
2 There was so little space in the car and I was so cramped that one of the policemen lifted me bodily out on to the road .
3 It 's had it 's supporters er one is always reminded that one of it 's key supporters , the former American er er secretary of state and and at the moment , globe-trotting world expert er Henry Kissinger .
4 ‘ You have got to accept it but it 's absolutely maddening that 30,000 people saw a good tackle but the referee gave a foul .
5 It 's now emerged that one of the women was pregnant … her mother says she had everything to live for .
6 Meanwhile , it 's now known that two other people from the Central South region were among the one hundred and sixty seven passengers killed .
7 It 's now estimated that five hundred children in Lothian Region alone are affected by HIV and AIDS .
8 It is hereby ascertained that nine pints and one choppin of the said Standard measure make a peck , and that sixteen pecks make a Boll . "
9 It is widely accepted that one of the main factors contributing to the relative decline and adverse trading position of the British economy is a shortfall of investment in private industry , and socialists can not afford to be indifferent to this since the employment prospects and livelihood of millions of workers are at stake .
10 It is well known that one of the best ways of learning is to teach others .
11 It is also recognised that IGFBP-1 is just one of at least six distinct binding proteins but the functions and inter-relationships of these are also uncertain .
12 It is also estimated that 37 Tory backbenchers are set to vote against the government in Wednesday 's Maastricht debate , making the result too close to call .
13 It is also known that two of the four panel members who complained about Mrs Kemp were employees of Orkney Islands Council .
14 It is often said that one of the problems with antiracism is that it knows what it is against , but not what it is for .
15 It is often said that one of the objectives of a commercial contract is to allocate risks between the contracting parties and the drafter 's client will generally wish to throw as many of the risks as possible onto its trading partners .
16 It is often claimed that one of the most conspicuous shortcomings of Keynesian macroeconomics lies in its lack of a coherent theory of aggregate supply .
17 A further reason is that it is commonly found that eighteen months into recovery is a particular period of disillusion and difficulty .
18 It is now reckoned that 80 per cent of laws enacted by Congress emanate from the executive — if one were to weight these laws in terms of importance , almost certainly that proportion would be higher .
19 It is now known that three species of forest plant in the Amazonian forest of southeast Peru are visited by up to seven species of diurnal and six species of nocturnal non-flying mammals in the dry season .
20 The Home Office originally announced that no prisoners had been injured , but it was finally admitted that 54 had been , and that there had been criminal assaults on prisoners by staff .
21 It was officially stated that 47 per cent of the members of the new central committee were aged under 49 , that four of them were women and that 41 per cent had received education to university level .
22 The complete results were not released , nor were the names of defeated candidates ; it was officially claimed that 503 candidates took part .
23 It was officially reported that 36,000 possible offenders had surrendered by a Nov. 10 deadline imposed in August by the Supreme People 's Procuratorate .
24 The anti-Hoxha demonstrations were put down by the police and troops with increasing force , and on Feb. 23 it was officially reported that two demonstrators and a policeman had been shot dead when a crowd reportedly tried to storm the Tirana military academy ( the opposition claimed up to 30 dead , and attributed some of the shooting to clashes between rival pro- and anti-reform factions within the army ) .
25 It was also observed that eight individual delivery times for early and rare books exceeded one-and-a-half hours , and that three-quarters of these occurred between 12.00 and 13.00 , which suggests that the increase in delivery times at lunch-time may be even greater for such material than for ‘ ordinary ’ books .
26 It was also estimated that 60 per cent of the fruit and vegetable crop had been lost , although this could be blamed in part on almost continuous rain between late August and October in the main vegetable-growing belt of central European Russia , Byelorussia and the north Ukraine , with the result that crops had rotted in waterlogged fields .
27 It was also reported that two of the three men on trial with Talb or members of their family had been seen with Dalkammoni .
28 It was also reported that three dismissed military officers had been charged with rebellion and murder in connection with the December coup attempt .
29 It was also known that two of them had a day off together every week , besides Sunday .
30 It was also proposed that three deputy speakers be elected , one from each parliamentary group , but the USD deputies objected to this , arguing that the Movement for Rights and Freedoms ( MRF ) was based on ( Turkish ) ethnicity and thus constitutionally unlawful .
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