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 . |