Example sentences of "[adj] [coord] [num] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is hard to imagine the effect water can have on the lives of normal everyday people , there were about six or seven houses that I knew of that almost completely wrecked . |
| 2 | So , if you 've got , sort of , three or four stories that you know , that you could deal with , the type of question you might get is , discuss how erm , different writers deal with the subject of change , with reference to probably about three stories . |
| 3 | and it 's , it 's multiplied by about three or four times that you see |
| 4 | The pictures can then be made as a set right from the beginning , rather than just hanging together three or four pictures that you have already made , in the hope that they will be complementary . |
| 5 | And they had the , the erm they had sort of five out of the five or six horses that I thought were in with a good chance at eight to one . |
| 6 | To design cards for this stitch type is no more difficult than for any other type of stitch pattern , but there are one or two rules that you need to obey . |
| 7 | Yeah There 's one or two that are , well I say that every week , there 's one or two houses that I 'd |
| 8 | ‘ Will you take me on the road here to see one or two things that I might like to see ? ’ |
| 9 | Mm , mm , I heard an interesting programme on Radio Shropshire which talked about the tailed bat , which brought out the historical importance of the building , and I learnt one or two things that I did n't know , apparently one of the very early carvings , who plays Sidney I think , and yet , yet it was n't er , destroyed until the next revolution took place . |
| 10 | Do you remember when I said er as we were going through I said there were one or two things that you perhaps could help me with ? |
| 11 | anywhere near as if you were prepared , because if you were prepared there are bound to be one or two things that you would want to ask for , own by the standard of interpretation of whatever it is , or a particular word if it 's a language and so on , erm and that is something that er I think people erm come across as |
| 12 | ‘ Next time I come , I 'll bring one or two gowns that I know will fit you . ’ |
| 13 | Er , there 's just one or two points that I , I 'd like to ask . |
| 14 | Er , sir , at the risk of straying slightly into into two B , you , do forgive me in advance , but you raised the specific point about size , and and erm there was er one or two statements that there is n't a a clear view on size in P P G three , I think it 's important to bear in mind the interrelationship between all P P G s and as Mr Curtis said , the research that that backs them up , and I I I point you to three quotes in the statement that C P R E have put in , erm i i i paragraph four point one seven , an and s the quote that attaches to that is taken from the research that erm er backs up draft revised P P G thirteen , transport , and erm I shall quote from that on this question of size , i it is also evident that smaller settlements , those with populations of less than fifty thousand , but particularly very small settlements are characteristically less transport emissions efficient than larger settlements , I think the the erm essence of of that particular piece of research is not as Mr Davis was implying to achieve totally self contained settlements , I do n't believe such a concept exists , it 's actually erm a planning land use in the long term to reduce C O two emi emissions something that is essential now to government policy , I think perhaps more instructive though is is the quote that I 've in included in paragraph four point one nine and that 's taken from er er this book here which I perhaps should submit the whole chapter in evidence to the panel , I 've only just included one quote , it 's it 's I suggest one of the more interesting reads that you may have as a result of this panel , it 's by Colin Ward , and it 's called New Town , Home Town , it 's undertaken by er , sorry includes some of the work that 's been undertaken by the University of Reading , erm and er David Lock Associates , on erm er new town research , and this this is due to be published by H M S O shortly , it 's unfortunate that it was n't available in time for this E I P , but I think erm , if you 'll bear with me , I will read out the quote that I put in four point one nine , because I feel that it is useful on this question of of size , we concluded that if you are interested in environmental impact , energy conser consumption , and sustainability , new settlements have to reach a certain size to be worthwhile , it 's parallel to the old arguments that used to take place around self containment in new towns , we found that new settlements of much less than five thousand houses , that 's about fourteen thousand people are not really worthwhile because if they are smaller than that you are simply putting a housing estate in the countryside , a phrase that that has already been put round this morning , it appears that the best minimum for a new settlement , the best minimum , is about ten thousand houses , that 's that 's twenty five thousand people , which as it happens is about the size of the original garden cities . |
| 15 | ‘ Except for one or two episodes that I suppose he could n't miss , just to try , there was never a chance . |
| 16 | Erm yeah I did mention earlier actually there was one or two ways that you could perhaps help me er one was erm I hope , I 'd like to think that obviously my service has been of value to you erm I 'd also like to think that you can perhaps recommend me to people you know er you did actually mention earlier erm was it Peter you work with , was it |
| 17 | And he 'd actually confirmed that you , you found it useful and he had mentioned earlier on there were one or two ways that you could actually help him |
| 18 | The group is trying to avoid the cry of ‘ not another one ’ by pointing out that the scheme has one or two extras that we have not seen before . |
| 19 | They in turn got it from a hospital in Leeds , and I know of one other implementation in Sheffield of this particular system , so there may be two or three others that I do n't know about , perhaps four or five in this country , of this particular type . |
| 20 | And these picture , they 're two or three incidents that we 've had recently , they are fairly horrible . |
| 21 | Two or three things that we need to decide here today and that 's the purpose of these discussions . |
| 22 | Erm now the three two or three things that we 're talking about today really is , er and one we 've just got over I think , is that you and I er I 'm I 'm absolutely certain you 'd knock this into a cocked hat . |
| 23 | Because any one of these two or three things that I show you is enough if it 's a surprise to them they will blow you out . |
| 24 | If he found after two or three days that he was n't really making much headway , he would then , after he 'd left the police courts , say to me I think you 'd better go down street or somewhere and see if you can find |
| 25 | I have noticed this during the last two or three days that I have been sitting here , being able for the first time in this House , to see the faces of my old associates , I have admired the way in which they have cheered to keep their spirits up , and I have admired those who have done that knowing — knowing — that only a few weeks , possibly , remain , before the place that knows them now will know them no more . |
| 26 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 27 | Yeah , and cos we had , we had the bathroom that was originally there , that they knocked through to build all this extension , was converted into a shower room , and she did n't think that the sink was right in that , and the disabled bathroom had at least two or three pieces that she thought bolshie in that as well , |
| 28 | ‘ It 's probably only the past two or three years that I started to feel comfortable with myself . |
| 29 | Erm but I say there , there were a couple of erm objections that came up during the course of the conversation which really resulted because you , you 'd fallen down on the actual structure , but having said that then again there were two or three examples that you apacked and you got through very well and you , you recovered yourself well on that and , and I say really I think that 's er that 's covered most of the bits that , that I felt were , were there . |
| 30 | He 'd been no more than another face around the yard on the two or three occasions that she 'd been by , no reason that he should have made any lasting impression on her at all . |