Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] [art] [num] " in BNC.

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1 If it can be established by observation in some test experiment that a 10 lb. weight and a 1 lb. weight in free fall move downwards at roughly the same speed , then it can be concluded that the claim that bodies fall at speeds proportional to their weight is false .
2 Unix International Inc will use UniForum to launch a guide to the implementation differences between Unix System Laboratories Inc 's System V.4.2 operating system and Sun Microsystems Inc 's Solaris , in an attempt to counter the widely-held perception that the two are incompatible .
3 Unix International will use UniForum to launch a guide to the porting differences between Unix System Labs ' SVR4.2 operating system and Sun Microsystems ' Solaris , in an attempt to counter the widely-held perception that the two are incompatible .
4 For many people living through that time , 1968 was the unforgivable pin that pricked the bubble : and with the deflation of the great illusion that the 1960s was a perpetual party came the realisation of the cost .
5 An appeal against the original interdict has still to be heard , as has an allegation that the two shop stewards breached the order .
6 Curricular novelties continued : the Headmaster , himself a Classicist , reported on Speech Day : we have made the experiment of allowing boys in the 5th to choose their own work for two hours a week , with the interesting result that a dozen boys have chosen to do Greek . "
7 For example , when he was invited to visit Bridgnorth ( Shropshire ) in early July , rival crowds made alternative bonfires , " where about one they drank Dr Sacheverell 's health and the other his confusion " , with the inevitable result that the two groups eventually fell to blows .
8 Mr John MacGregor , the Education Secretary , said in a Commons written reply that the 1990 main grant and full year loan would amount to about 25 per cent more than the 1989 grant for most students .
9 When you bear in mind that a 256 colour image at 1024 by 768 pixels is 768K in size then it is not surprising that ordinary monitor controller cards simply can not redraw the screen image with any speed .
10 This it has to be said , reflects a rather poor month last year but bearing in mind that the 1991 figures showed a 48 per cent rise in income , the current situation is viewed with satisfaction by all concerned .
11 While that may not sound brilliant for the performance , it should be borne in mind that the 300E-24 saloon , weighing the best part of 500lb less and with a four-speed automatic 'box , achieved 18.8mpg while on test .
12 His wife Eleanor Roos , meanwhile , was in the queen 's service — a clear demonstration that the two circles were not incompatible .
13 His wife Eleanor Roos , meanwhile , was in the queen 's service — a clear demonstration that the two circles were not incompatible .
14 In the middle of the valley he hastily dismantled his collection of rubbish for fear that the eight twelves might mistake it for a weapon .
15 **Dr Meir Stampfer , Harvard Medical School , found in a 1988 study that a 1 point increase in HDL produced a 7 per cent reduction in heart attack risk .
16 These are almost identical to those of some molluscs , a strong indication that the two groups sprang from common stock .
17 Mr. Jeffreys contended that on a fair reading of the subsection it can not have been the intention that every one of an owner 's rights had to be assumed by the alleged thief before an appropriation was proved and that essential ingredient of the offence of theft established .
18 Jaguar insiders say the company bosses — all 14 of them — are so enthusiastic about the car that every one of them has claimed he 'd spend his own money to buy one if it goes into production .
19 It is only at the wedding that the two people most concerned are actually fully involved in the decision to have a religious ceremony , albeit not always as a result of a happy consensus , but nevertheless under pressure from some influence which inculcates the belief that some benefit will accrue to the marriage from the involvement of a believed-in ‘ god ’ .
20 Whilst there is wide agreement that investment is a necessary condition of economic growth and that within fairly wide margins higher levels of performance require higher levels of investment , the direction of this relationship can not be conclusively demonstrated ; it may well be the case that the two occur together .
21 It is also the case that the two commonly used relationships with ratios often and 100 concern millimetres , centimetres and metres and are perhaps the units which most pupils use most frequently .
22 Yet it must be the case that the two valuation methods lead to the same fair price , otherwise there is an inconsistency .
23 There was , he added , powerful and overwhelming evidence to make the case that the three men stopped in the taxi were the same men at Primity Crescent and guilty of all the charges .
24 When we were in our twenties , we thought that life was full enough just thinking about ourselves in those long periods of freedom that the twenties offered , without having to fill them up with anything else .
25 I think there 's nothing Chairman that a hundred and fifty thousand pounds would n't do .
26 On Friday 24 March 1933 they set up an experiment in which a mixture of ethylene and benzaldehyde was pressurized to 1,900 atmospheres at 170°C in the hope that the two substances would combine together .
27 In a speech to Hungary 's National Assembly , Yeltsin expressed the hope that the two countries could put their mutual bitter past behind them and relaunch bilateral relations on a fresh sheet .
28 He expressed the hope that the two measures , which had been decided after extensive consultation , would stop the destruction of hedgerows and would satisfy all concerned parties .
29 Although there now appears to be some question of the Holbein being withdrawn , on Wednesday 15 April Christie 's hope that the three star pictures of their Old Masters sale will be the now-notorious Holbein , Canaletto 's ‘ The Old Horse Guards , London , from St James 's Park ’ and Rembrandt 's ‘ Daniel and Cyrus before the idol of Bel ’ .
30 Similarly , using historical data from several advanced industrial European countries , Anderson confirmed the finding that a 40 per cent literacy rate is the threshold for economic development .
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