Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] that [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it 's not an offence he said if you 've broke down , you ca n't help , he said but you 've got ta really move it so I went round to Paul and there was about seven or eight blokes that pushed it all the way round to Bernie 's . |
| 2 | Following reconsideration of each issue in the light of comments received , the IASC issued a Statement of Intent on the comparability of financial statements in July 1990 , which sets out 21 E 32 proposals which will be incorporated in revised IASs without substantive changes , and five E 32 proposals that have been deferred pending further work on financial instruments . |
| 3 | It was rapping in my back as I was pushed past Roger Beeding and Roger de Mornay and closer and closer to the eight steps that led up to the low wooden platform on which was the gigantic cross and the large black-and-white photograph of Rose Fox . |
| 4 | Many more of the 226 schools that have taken control of their own affairs in the past three years fear victimisation if they are returned to hostile local authorities . |
| 5 | It is the possibility of such many-one codings that justifies a multilevel model of language in the first place . |
| 6 | Indeed , this very struggle that I find so fascinating in the writing of Paradise Lost , you know , a rather intimate way I feel I can see it in eleven words that come just a little earlier in the fourth book , in which he tells us ‘ Seeing the apples growing on the trees , that they are hisperian fables true , if true here only and of delicious taste ’ . |
| 7 | And there are eight words that need to be fitted in to each day . |
| 8 | The eight nations that circle the Arctic have taken a first step towards protecting the fragile environment of the far north from increased pollution , most of which originates outside the region . |
| 9 | In the 12 hours that followed after it clambered effortlessly over the last five earth dykes , raised by terrified residents in as many days , the lava officially caused £1 million damage . |
| 10 | The 12 hours that shook us all |
| 11 | This study is based on a population of 2,079 UK domestic and Irish companies listed at May 1992 , which comprises 1,664 continuing companies and 415 companies that have joined the market since 1987 . |
| 12 | Of the 49 movements that make up the collection of 1708 , 35 are connected by incipit to at least one other in the same tonality . |
| 13 | The explanation of these apparent omissions seems to lie in the forty years that separate the story , which extends to include the first Reform Bill in 1832 , from the date of its publication shortly after the passing of the second Reform Bill in 1861 . |
| 14 | It was a human embryo of some forty days that had been somehow arrested , then grown to its own obscene maturity . |
| 15 | The images of 20 towns and cities were measured on 12 dimensions that had emerged as relevant during preliminary work . |
| 16 | GKS is an enormous work of 280 pages that describes a set of functions for computer graphics programming . ’ |
| 17 | The large size of the Faculty allows unparalleled opportunities for postgraduate study and the diversity and breadth of interest is represented by the twenty-one departments that make up the Faculty of Arts . |
| 18 | Now consider T 5 ; the 252 robins that die aged 5 live a total of 252÷2 robin-years , to which must be added one year of life for each of the 63 birds that survive at least another year plus their total life beyond their next birthday ( i.e. T 6 ) . |
| 19 | Of the 12 games that went to the 18th hole during the course of the match overall , only one was won by an American and , as matters got tighter and tighter , the home team got worse and worse . |
| 20 | There were 105 farms that had an income from an off-farm job but in only 22% of these was there conflict between work on the farm and work in employment off the farm . |
| 21 | This rectified image was then subsetted to give an area covering the 49 wards that make up the districts of Oadby and Wigston , Leicester , and Charnwood in northern Leicestershire ( Fig. 5.1 ) . |
| 22 | Of the richest thirty-five countries in 1958 , all but six had the required level of primary education in 1920 ; vice versa , of the fifty countries that had not achieved the minimum level of primary education in 1920 , only one was among the developed countries in 1958 . |
| 23 | Its size and its stability have come about largely because , unlike the other oceans , the Pacific is made essentially of one tectonic plate — one of the eight plates that cover the surface of the earth . |
| 24 | Comparative studies of thrombolytic agents have shown differences in efficacy for early coronary artery recanalisation , but the two large GISSI and ISIS-3 trials that have compared the effect of different thrombolytic agents on mortality in patients with acute myocardial infarction have not revealed differences in early deaths . |
| 25 | Coming Clean , which analyses the views of over 70 companies that have produced free-standing environmental reports in Japan , Europe and North America , has been jointly prepared by Touche Ross , environmental consultancy SustainAbility and the International Institute for Sustainable Development . |
| 26 | For the Victoria and Albert exhibition , ‘ The Destruction of the Country House ’ , Peter Reid compiled a list of more than 1,200 houses that had been demolished in the preceding century . |
| 27 | The Pennyland estate in Milton Keynes has over 100 houses that have been designed to catch as much sun as possible , cutting annual heating bills by 40 per cent and costing just one per cent more to build . |
| 28 | Well , each of the seven great churches had a peel of six bells that hung on the outside wall of the church tower . |
| 29 | We know of one family collection consisting of 10 pictures that have not been seen by the general public . |
| 30 | The same fragility can be heard in the six songs that complete this issue , and she seems too light a voice for either the humouristic pomp of the Ballade des gros Dindons , or the lovely lyricism of Chanson pour Jeanne and L'île heureuse . |