Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [vb past] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | We did a back to back test on about eight speakers and found that two were drastically different from the rest , and that was the normal 25-watt speaker and the Celestion Vintage 30 . |
| 2 | Some of those attending were travelling up to 30 miles and acknowledged that they suffered some physical and mental fatigue but could make no suggestion as to how to avoid it . |
| 3 | Murphy ( 1982 ) reviewed 100 cases and concluded that depression among older people had similar causes as for younger people and was focused upon major life events such as bereavement . |
| 4 | On the day after the debate , Saturday , 19th February , ‘ Habitans in Sicco ’ wrote to The Times from what he called ‘ Broad Phylactery ’ , to ridicule the classical attitudes of the Opposition , and said that he had lived in a Broad Sanctuary house for three years and found that it possessed ‘ all the comforts and conveniences of any house in London ’ . |
| 5 | Senor Gomorro was fined 350 pounds and told that illegally importing an animal is a serious offence . |
| 6 | An American study examined the causes of more than 68,000 deaths and concluded that for both men and women , low levels were linked with an increased risk of dying from lung cancer , digestive disease , stroke and trauma — the latter including accidents and suicide . |
| 7 | Yadav and Pope then divided the mispricings by size into one of 5 categories and found that the mean reversion effect was strongest in the USA and UK when the absolute value of the mispricing in the previous period was largest . |
| 8 | She felt exhausted ; she had not spoken for ten minutes and felt that unless she said something soon she would disappear . |
| 9 | He had waited for over ten minutes and decided that he would give his friend another five minutes before making off home . |
| 10 | Klemkosky and Lee looked for a mispricing every ten minutes and found that , even for the arbitrageurs with the largest no-arbitrage band ( taxed institutional investors ) , the no-arbitrage band was violated 5% of the time . |
| 11 | The government , denying UNITA 's accusations , gave details of the confinement of over 22,500 troops and claimed that proposals on the election process had been ready for approval on Sept. 10 , but that UNITA had taken an " obstructionist position " . |
| 12 | They surveyed 288 people for nine months and found that in seven out of 10 cases anxiety was making hair loss worse . |
| 13 | They estimated the total population at 3000–4000 animals and discovered that almost a quarter lived around Banks Peninsula , near the South Island 's largest city , Christchurch . |
| 14 | Researchers in Canada , however , studied college students over five years and found that lefties tended to be born to older mothers . |
| 15 | Martin Hyman of British Aerospace got five enquiries and said that though he could have wished for more , those that he had talked to had , he felt , benefited considerably . |
| 16 | A more unlikely situation for a cinema was hard to imagine , but the driver pointed to a set of steps burrowing up between two houses and explained that it was as near as he could get in a car . |
| 17 | They identified about four hundred units and suggested that they accommodate over seven thousand pupils at ratios rarely exceeding 6 to 1 . |
| 18 | He also announced the contribution of Rs200,000,000 ( about US$7,000,000 ) to an Indo-Mauritian fund to promote joint ventures between the two countries and indicated that India would play an increasing role in Mauritian industrial development . |
| 19 | Following the annexation Iraq ordered all foreign embassies in Kuwait to move to Baghdad within two weeks and announced that , for security reasons , it had closed the borders to foreigners trying to leave Iraq and Kuwait . |
| 20 | Finally they upped the current to 0.2 amps for another two weeks and found that the heat excess rose to 25 per cent . |
| 21 | A Sotheby 's New York spokeswoman declined to say how much the company had already spent on the treasure over the last two years but acknowledged that it had been ‘ very , very expensive ’ . |
| 22 | Venture capital giant 3i had not used executive search at all in the past four years but mentioned that they had lost a number of people through headhunters . |
| 23 | In the Abridgement of 1754 , Miller listed fifty-one roses and said that at least three variations of the Provence were sold ‘ promiscuously ’ by the nurserymen . |
| 24 | He arranged the pictures used in advertising into some fifty categories and found that whilst a representation of men and women embracing was most common there were no representatives at all of people at work . |
| 25 | The NFPA study tested 7,000 samples and found that 79.8 percent contained no residues , 18.7 percent contained residues within the legal tolerance limit and 1.8 percent had residues above the legal limit . |
| 26 | Veljko Kadijevic on Sept. 12 rejected an order from Mesic ( the nominal commander of the JNA ) to withdraw troops to barracks within 48 hours and reiterated that the JNA would act only if ordered by the Presidency as a whole . |
| 27 | We studied the effect of octreotide administered in a dose of 50 µg on the sphincter of Oddi using endoscopic manometry in seven patients and found that this hormone increase basal pressure and the frequency of phasic wave contractions appreciably ( submitted for publication ) . |