Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] [conj] [pron] [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The maximum amount of sediment likely to be deposited over that period along the coast generally is about 30 centimetres and we know that hurricanes will certainly rearrange that amount of material . |
| 2 | It took me about three months , perhaps longer , three to six months before I realised that I was dependent on it . |
| 3 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 4 | Well yesterday the three things that I felt that were most useful to me was one the delivery two the coaching and the thought patterns . |
| 5 | Anyway , when he , when he came back again we had to come back cos see we had another delivery of gravel and we ordered three yards and we reckon that on the last journey we bought two yards , we 've got over a yard too much gravel ! |
| 6 | As the hon. Gentleman introduced the subject of colour of dress , I can only say that I have been listening to him for almost 18 years and I wish that he would sometimes change the colour of his tie . |
| 7 | The walk there took only about ten minutes and she thought that even with the frightening weakness in her legs that she had discovered the first time she got out of bed she ought to manage that distance . |
| 8 | I tell myself that I will let myself lie in bed for another five minutes though I stipulate that I am not allowed to go back to sleep and that I have to count out the five-minutes in my head . |
| 9 | The flight from Tenerife was due in fifteen minutes and he saw that there was a screen on the wall that would show when it landed . |
| 10 | Goldberg and Lewis sampled very young babies between 6 and 13 months and they observed that mothers of female babies were more protective of them , keeping them close to their side , cuddling them a lot and that the babies liked to play quietly with soft toys and absorbing tasks . |
| 11 | I can handle at most five colours and I recognise that I am no colourist . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I agreed to do the job for five years but I feel that it is taking up too much of my time , ’ he declared . |
| 13 | It came to something like 60 hours and I decided that I could share it between two people . |
| 14 | In Southampton it is more than twenty years since we learned that there was a major settlement of foreign merchants quite separate from the walled town ; and Hamwih seemed for a time a town apart from others in Britain — though evidently related to the great semi-urban sprawl which has been excavated at Duurstede near Utrecht . |
| 15 | In the other case the husband of a client asked to have the support worker withdrawn after four months because he felt that his wife suspected him of having an affair with the support worker . |
| 16 | If there 's a positive relationship okay I d I mean that was just recapping something I said before so if you got it you 've probably got it down twice now Okay , if you knew that there was a positive relationship between two variables and we said that their score on one of the variables was high then we would expect , although not necessarily , because w it 's not true in every case but it i there 's a general trend , we would expect that their score on the other variable would also be high . |
| 17 | Four clutches where we suspected that hosts had ejected cuckoo eggs before we detected them ( as judged by the damage of host eggs ) were excluded from calculations of the number of cuckoo eggs per nest . |
| 18 | In reality children usually start to lose interest after about two weeks once they realize that they can earn them relatively easily . |
| 19 | Thirty-one showed positive results after four weeks and everyone reported that their skin felt smoother , more supple and better toned . |
| 20 | ‘ I decided on four days because I reckoned that that 's as near to being a full-timer as you can be , while still gaining something significant for yourself . |
| 21 | Pres presentation one and it was to last three minutes and the subject was what would I do if I won two million pounds and we recorded that er on the C C T V for later playback . |
| 22 | One of the girls had two glasses before she realised that it was the water refreshments and not wine at all . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ They did not have certain top-class players out there , but the majority of those who came in were £1 million players and I felt that they would be fighting for a place in the Cup replay . ’ |
| 24 | It should be noted , however , that there are only two miracles where it states that Jesus healed out of a sense of compassion or pity ( Mark 1:41 ; Luke 7:13 ) . |
| 25 | Half past eleven at night they went and knocked Wendy 's door and says can you give me some photos of your daughter and there were two girls and they thought that they were the only two and the woman said that the only two girls I know that are alike them , their age group , erm , er are Nicholas daughter and erm , and erm her friend |
| 26 | The FMLN on Jan. 21 admitted that investigations had shown that its soldiers had shot the two men and it proposed that they should be tried by an FMLN tribunal with independent participants . |
| 27 | So , I gave you two examples and I said that it was often |
| 28 | It was two beats before I realised that this was meant to be a very funny joke and then I struggled to match his guffaws , adding my own rather reedy piping to his basso mirth . |
| 29 | I 'd read about , I read erm read in erm some paper or other not so very long ago , about erm a funeral and the that was going along the road of course , and they came to a to a erm hotel and they were och , they were going for miles and miles and miles and they went into this hotel and the they party the funeral party went into the hotel and had a good few drinks and they were well away when they came out and they they they went away without the coffin , for two miles , two miles before they discovered that they did n't have the coffin . |
| 30 | I experienced it on one or two occasions and I feel that it is not the way to proceed . |