Example sentences of "[num] [noun pl] that [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there are eight words that need to be fitted in to each day . |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | For instance , 2,000 plants that promise to be valuable in treating cancer come from the rainforests . |
| 5 | There are now six machines that play at the standard of the best 30 per cent of rated players , and three in the class of the top 20 per cent . |
| 6 | To transfer the first 5,626 papers that came to hand would mean ignoring the 8,907 other papers on which Paisley was placed first , and the system reasonably requires that the second preferences expressed on those papers should also be taken into account . |
| 7 | Thus this year is ambiguous between the calendrical unit that runs from January I to January I and which includes CT , and the measure of 365 days that begins on the day including CT . |
| 8 | List three rewards that operate in your life . |
| 9 | Three rewards that operate in most adults ' lives include : |
| 10 | you know like Freddy Kruger three fingers that looked like blades and every night she would go to erm the fields and erm she would go into sheep fields and cow fields and she would kill three sheep and a cow every night except for a Sunday night ! |
| 11 | Accepted authorities on the writing of good English prose — the Fowler brothers and Arthur Quiller-Couch — agree on three rules that make for effective writing : |
| 12 | First of all , I want you to write down , the first words that come into your mind , the first say half a dozen words that come into your mind when you think about stress . |
| 13 | Britain contains three areas that vie for the term of a ‘ mini ’ Silicon Valley ; they are centred on Bristol , Reading and Cambridge . |
| 14 | This means that it behaves in a similar way to the three directions that correspond to moving in space . |
| 15 | The culprits in this instance were the amalgam of sevens gypsies that gathered under the Warblers banner — including New Zealand sevens internationals Eric Rush and Glen Osborne ( North Harbour ) and the star of the Melrose Sevens , Peter Woods ( Bay of Plenty ) — and the Froggies , a polyglot of French first division players from the Toulouse area . |
| 16 | I tried out three companies that specialise in cultural holidays accompanied by expert lecturers . |
| 17 | He discovered just how good during the three weeks that elapsed between the signing of contracts and the opening . |
| 18 | That is what we set out to do in this paper , proceeding from three assumptions that differ from those of the traditional leadership literature . |
| 19 | It has recently been called to our attention that Innocent added the notion of the Church of purgatory to the Church militant ( the Church on earth ) and the Church triumphant ( the Church in heaven ) , championing the idea of three armies that acted through fire , combat and praise . |
| 20 | yeah and the girls that serve in there , there 's three girls that serve in there , one works in the kitchen actually helping with the food , but the other two serve at the tables , they 've all got A levels but they ca n't get jobs |
| 21 | By simplifying the projection to a plane triangle , Desargues found that : The pairs of corresponding sides of two triangles ' perspective from a point meet , respectively , in three points that lie on one straight line . |
| 22 | Alternatives Basic dome — the three pole dome has three poles that cross at a central point . |
| 23 | In the second experiment , which lasted 17 days , animals were given three diets that differed in the molecular form of the nitrogen supply — that is , proteins or peptides . |
| 24 | You may feel that an idea of this sort is what will give you the most charge to get through the sixty , seventy or eighty thousand words that lie between you and a finished manuscript , let alone the weeks of researching that may be necessary and the dense hours of hard thinking . |
| 25 | The formation of U.S. Steel in 1901 was Morgan 's biggest deal , forging together 11 firms that accounted for half America 's steel industry . |
| 26 | First results from the lambs born to the 76 ewes that conceived as a result of using frozen Est-a-Laine semen were satisfactory . |
| 27 | Now of course , ‘ Racehorses of 1990 ’ is the bible of the racing man , it 's over a thousand pages in total , there are pen portraits of all the eight thousand horses that ran on the flat in England in 1990 , and lot 's more as well . |
| 28 | Indeed , food requirements can rise anywhere from five to ten times that needed for a similar ectotherm . |
| 29 | ( my thanks to the somewhat bemused friend I just telephoned and asked to tell me the first ten objects that came into her mind — though I do wonder about her and what made her choose those particular objects ) . |
| 30 | Now if that is divided by , say , 3 bottles that means between 8 and 10.5 minimum , because they do not consider the case treated below this level . |