Example sentences of "[num] it [be] [adv] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Nov. 7 it was widely reported that Nigerian Alpha jets had bombed NPFL positions in the Monrovia suburbs of Gardnersville , Mount Barclay and Stockton Creek the previous day , and had also attacked areas close to the rebel headquarters at Gbarnga , 160 km north of Monrovia on Nov. 5 . |
| 2 | 2.1 It is widely recognised that English law is defective in failing to provide satisfactory machinery for the imposition on freehold land of positive obligations ( such as obligations to repair and to contribute to communal maintenance costs ) which can then be enforced against successors in title to the original owner of the land . |
| 3 | by the late Seventies it was generally acknowledged that a funding system partially dependent on the departments would be unlikely to assure speedy progress towards a comprehensive service in the sector and would do nothing to reduce the substantial regional inequalities in the distribution of extra hospital facilities . |
| 4 | 3 Of course New Yorks is not the capital of the USA. 4 It is well known that Maths is harder than English . |
| 5 | On Nov. 1 it was officially announced that the grain harvest had amounted to a record 240 million tonnes . |
| 6 | On July 16 it was officially announced that the consortium had offered US$260,000,000 in cash ( of which half was to be paid immediately and the remainder over 10 months ) in addition to US$2,000 million in a debt-for-equity exchange , comprising US$1,600 million in Argentine debt principal and $400,000,000 in outstanding interest on that debt . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | By 1939 it was widely believed that no more wooden aeroplanes would be built and this might have come true if the War had not created shortages of aluminium and of the machinery and skilled men for handling it . |
| 9 | In January 1989 it was finally announced that the Brick Lane brewery was to close . |
| 10 | During the 1950s and 1960s it was generally believed that the weak and strong nuclear forces were not renormalizable ; that is , they would require an infinite number of infinite subtractions to make them finite . |
| 11 | In the 1960s it was also argued that government departments dealing with domestic questions should be decentralized so that civil servants who had a powerful voice in matters of economic planning could be kept in touch with regional and local interests . |
| 12 | 14 It is also suggested that documents are lodged in public libraries . |
| 13 | Between the ages of 5 and 14 it is clearly recognised that the teacher is one of the most significant adults in a pupil 's life . |
| 14 | In the late '20s and early '30s it was generally agreed that the two main treatment principles in coeliac disease were rest and diet . |
| 15 | In particular , with the imposition of liberal democratic institutions after 1947 it is widely felt that ‘ the Japanese have elected to forego the assertion of the right to the expression of untrammelled personal freedom in the . |
| 16 | Towards the end of 1990 it was officially acknowledged that the Canadian economy was in recession . |
| 17 | By the end of 1990 it was generally accepted that the economy had entered a period of recession , although there remained significant differences over the depth and the likely duration of the downturn . |
| 18 | During the 1980S it was increasingly argued that the world market could not support more than ten suppliers of major equipment items ( such as central office or exchange equipment ) and that Europe 's ten or more manufacturers would need to slim down to , at most four , perhaps three . |
| 19 | In the mid 1980s it was also discovered that the naturally leached soil of most of upland Britain is vulnerable to ‘ sulphate saturation ’ . |