Example sentences of "[num] [noun] that it [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In July , a US warship in the Pacific warned an Australian airliner carrying 300 passengers that it faced ‘ hostile action . ’
2 Yet it was in those six countries that it enjoyed the greatest influence and where it was able to generate the most support .
3 However , it is only within the last 10 years that it has become possible to process text electronically and thus improve the way non-routine information can be handled .
4 What is even more significant for wage profiles is that all of the figures quoted for average tenure are well below the 25–30 years that it takes to reach the peak of the earnings profile .
5 This means that , should the project have a successful outcome , there is a 0.9 chance that the additional research supported this outcome and 0.1 chance that it did not .
6 The International Telecommunications Satellite Organisation , Intelsat , owned by some 120 nations worldwide , is under such pressure to increase capacity that for the first time , it is to lease capacity on three satellites that it does not own .
7 That can not be said of the SNP , which campaigned with zest and intelligence , and yet finds itself with only the same three seats that it won in 1987 .
8 During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent .
9 Our escorting Wellington was delayed due to phenomenal sandstorms in the Delta area , and it was only on 18 March that it arrived and we set off for Benina to refuel before the sea leg to Malta .
10 I would like to hear an opinion for somebody who ca n't afford the twelve hundred to two thousand pound that it takes for surrogacy ?
11 The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers .
12 100 employers were questioned in the survey , each employer naming ten institutions that it thought produced ‘ above average ’ graduates .
13 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
14 However , this sector of the Environment Services Division has expanded greatly in the ten years that it has been operating
15 If the Government adhere to their position , the decision on the bids would be taken not after due consideration and detailed examination but at the outset by telling one bid that it had not been selected to receive the £48,750 assistance .
16 Although the general rule that costs should follow the event does not apply in the Family Division ( RSC Order 62 , r3(5) ) the Court of Appeal decided in Gojkovic v Gojkovic ( 1991 ) The Times , 1 May that it provides a useful starting point .
17 I put my name on the list with everyone else , but was absolutely dumbfounded when I was told one day that it had come up , along with that of one of the other Waafs , and if we wanted to go we were to report to RAF Wyton at 10.00 hours the next day .
18 Conversely , if the project fails there is a 0.2 chance that the additional research supported it and a 0.8 chance that it did not .
19 Could I just make one suggestion that it 's made within the next six months as well .
20 And it was the one time that it mattered more than anything else . ’
21 He became so desperate at one stage that it crossed his mind to give up the game altogether .
22 As of November 1991 , the Commission had found only one merger that it considered would not be compatible with the Common Market , which resulted in the merger being prohibited , namely , the proposed acquisition of De Havilland by ATR , a joint venture between Aerospatiale ( France ) and Alenia and Selenia ( Italy ) .
23 The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes .
24 Consequently , each earthly object would have a natural place in the sub-lunar region depending on the relative proportion of the four elements that it contained .
25 In the case of powder coatings Morton combined two businesses that it had acquired separately from Philip Morris and Chesebrough-Pond 's in the 1980s , and it did not go smoothly .
26 Yeah cold and damp that 's the two things that it does n't like .
27 Carbon has four electrons that it uses to form chemical bonds .
28 Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan .
29 Scottish Homes has brought back into use 1,000 units that it has helped to create in the past two years .
30 Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October .
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