Example sentences of "number [prep] [noun] [vb base] that " in BNC.

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1 Although a number of writers suggest that a full-track bucket is always too large , they are talking of a bucket that has to be transferred as a whole into and out of main storage .
2 A number of developments suggest that this pessimistic attitude should be re-examined .
3 A number of studies demonstrate that Britain 's lower productivity performance in international terms can not be attributed to a substantially disproportionate concentration of labour in particular industries [ Panic , 1976 ] .
4 Work done by J. Walter Thompson in the sixties , and some more recent experimental work by a number of researchers suggest that attention does vary by programme type , and 24-hour commercial recall actually varies by individual programme .
5 One well publicised problem at the Hermitage is the shortage of space ; a number of experts claim that the museum can only put 7–8% of its collection on display .
6 Well I think I feel a bit ambivalent on this point because and it 's quite possible I was smiling because I 'm thinking of parts of the report where a huge number of women say that they just deal with this on their own terms , and of course they do .
7 The pros and cons of this theory are the subject of much contentious debate by experts , but it would probably be correct to say that the greater number of specialists believe that at least the more bipedal of the dinosaurs , including small and large carnivores , were warm-blooded , active animals .
8 An increasing number of sociologists argue that a value-free science of society is not possible .
9 A number of authors maintain that a definite need does exist .
10 A number of theories argue that it is , among them two of the schools of thought which were introduced in Chapter 1 : long-wave theories and regulationist theories .
11 However , a number of theories argue that the changes are even bigger than this : that we are at a major historical turning-point in the nature of the UK economy and in its urban and regional geography .
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