Example sentences of "be estimated that " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a process of extrapolation and arithmetic , it can be estimated that there are about 3,500 professionals and 13,000 amateurs who take a leading role in church music in the parishes . |
| 2 | It can be estimated that na average of 40 in these games is the equivalent of 50 in Test cricket , where there is time to build an innings . |
| 3 | Taking into account the volume of erupted volcanic material lying both on and below the surface of the ocean floor , it can be estimated that a minimum construction rate of between 0.005 and 0.01 km 3 a- 1 is required for a volcanic island to be produced in 1 Ma on lithosphere between 20 and 40 Ma old . |
| 4 | It can be estimated that at least twelve DNA fragments are detected by the probe . |
| 5 | However , it has been estimated that around one in five of pensioners entitled to these benefits do not actually claim them . |
| 6 | It has been estimated that there are 8,000 ‘ excess deaths ’ for every degree celsius that the winter is colder than average . |
| 7 | It has been estimated that about $280m a month has been flowing out of Hong Kong into the city of Vancouver this year . |
| 8 | It has been estimated that in a narrow clinical sense the Famine probably accounted for under 15 per cent of the extra mortality recorded at the height of the disaster in Saratov in 1921–2 : but in a broader sense , including deaths due to severe malnutrition and other causes , the Famine contributed to most of the rise in mortality that took place before the 1922 harvest . |
| 9 | In the same year in Kenya it has been estimated that African citizens and government institutions owned only about 5 per cent of corporate assets . |
| 10 | As a result , it 's been estimated that not many more than one per cent can be cultured at any one time . |
| 11 | It has been estimated that around 70 consortia in all are arranging finance to participate in the auction for major independent television franchises , with the most attractive regions such as Thames , LWT , Granada , Central , TVS and Anglia likely to draw the toughest competition . |
| 12 | Appearance money or guarantees previously were illegal — though not unknown — and under the new system it has been estimated that some top players ( Lendl and Boris Becker make around £1.5 million a year ) could increase their annual earnings by 40 per cent . |
| 13 | Molecule for molecule , they are 10,000 times more potent than carbon dioxide and it has been estimated that if production is not checked they will rival carbon dioxide as the main greenhouse gas in the twenty-first century . |
| 14 | It has been estimated that , in its early days , only about one third of Royal Society Fellows were scientists . |
| 15 | It has been estimated that Moody and Sankey were heard by upwards of one-and-a-half million Londoners in 1875 . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) It has been estimated that more than 60 million people left the rural areas of all European countries-during the 30 years from 1945 . |
| 17 | Because of the projected increase in the numbers aged 85 and over , ti has been estimated that by 2000 , it will cost the NHS an additional £400 million a year , and more in later years ( Britain in 2010 , The PSI Report , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | It has been estimated that some 85 per cent of these are of Augustan date . |
| 19 | It has been estimated that there are 24 000 cases of gonorrhoea each day in South America , that is just under half the total yearly figures for England . |
| 20 | Most of the material is injected in the form of dykes which do n't reach the surface , and it 's been estimated that the total thickness of dykes intruded in the last ninety million years is over 400 kilometres ! |
| 21 | It 's been estimated that this might be of the order of one cubic kilometre per year . |
| 22 | It has been estimated that two-thirds of all undiscovered oil and gas are to be found offshore and one of the first acts of the Reagan administration was to accelerate the process of offshore leasing in the Gulf areas , the California coast and also the North Atlantic coast . |
| 23 | It has been estimated that up to 300 million tonnes of oil a year could be saved in the USSR by cutting waste , substituting gas for oil in industrial complexes and making more use of the vast coal reserves , but whether this will be achieved to any significant extent outside the essentially capitalist ethos where cost saving is an easily learned lesson , is doubtful . |
| 24 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that the capital cost of a 1,000 MW installation on the UK coast could be comparable with the cost of a conventional power station of the same capacity but this does not take into account the amount of R & D necessary both to develop a 2MW , 100-metre diameter aerogenerator and to design the kind of structures and transmission systems to withstand the rigours of the ocean . |
| 26 | It has been estimated that , just to prevent any further warming of the Earth 's atmosphere , we need to reduce carbon dioxide production — by 50% according to Government estimates and by 80% according to environmental organisations . |
| 27 | It has been estimated that 65 per cent of the deals are spot and the remainder are forward deals . |
| 28 | It has been estimated that OPEC supplied approximately 50 per cent of the market 's funds in the 1970s . |
| 29 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 30 | A positive correlation has indeed been reported between the number of prescriptions for psychotropic drugs issued by general practitioners in England and Wales and the rate of deliberate self-poisoning , and it has been estimated that a reduction of 1000 psychotropic prescriptions would be associated with 3.8 fewer admissions as a result of deliberate self-poisoning ( Forster and Frost 1985 ) . |