Example sentences of "[verb] that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , a couple of drinks later it transpired that one of them has a boyfriend who gets up at six in the morning to meditate , while the other said her best friend had been snapped out of a severe depression by a weekend of psychodrama . |
| 2 | Now there 's no denying that 1991 was not a good year for the advertising industry . |
| 3 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 4 | Manager ‘ Ila Tapueluelu , however , disclosed that five younger players had been drafted in for the Fiji event after a disappointing showing in a tournament in Western Samoa . |
| 5 | By 8 March there were 27 dead and 227 wounded in the rioting ; later it was disclosed that 2000 persons had been detained ‘ behind barbed wire ’ . |
| 6 | In one particular alone , the Scott Report disclosed that 40 million rounds of small arms ammunition had been delivered in fourteen months , which was totally inconsistent with the 15 per cent claim . |
| 7 | Estimates from Scandinavia suggest that 10–30 per cent of such deaths are caused by exposure to radon ( Richardson 1988 : 270–81 ) . |
| 8 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 9 | We suggest that six is about as many as an observer can cope with . |
| 10 | I suggest that four suspects as well as your murderer will be quite enough to cope with . |
| 11 | Studies of rape in England and Wales suggest that two-thirds of rapes take place in the home of the victim or the offender , and that only one-third involve strangers ; that two-fifths of victims suffer physical violence as well as rape , and one-sixth suffer additional sexual indignities ; that recent years have seen an increase in the reporting of rapes between acquaintances , and that rapes are increasing a little in their intrinsic seriousness ( i.e. in terms of the violence used , other sexual acts , etc ) , but that the most significant rise has been in the average length of sentences imposed on rapists by the courts . |
| 12 | Preliminary estimates from the Ministry of Culture suggest that 180 billion roubles will be required to enact the programme . |
| 13 | Reconviction figures for prisoners released in 1985 suggest that 55 per cent of men and 34 per cent of women are reconvicted within 2 years . |
| 14 | However , they suggest that two personality traits have emerged as consistently associated : impulsiveness ( lack of ability or desire to defer gratification ) ; and undersocialisation ( lack of regard for feelings of others ) . |
| 15 | Some small differences in the achievement of educational objectives were observed , but our results suggest that two of the best school smoking education projects in Britain have not achieved better results than non-specific population wide approaches . |
| 16 | For illustrative purposes , I suggest that two specific groups should be made eligible for these capital grants — those aged twenty , on the threshold of independence , and those at forty-five , the ideal time for career reassessment and a possible fresh start . |
| 17 | They suggest that one of the principle problems confronting refugees is the feeling of guilt at having left relatives in danger or for being alive when so many have died . |
| 18 | I suggest that one solution for biologists will be to apply their expertise to the new science of socioecology , and the environment of the office . |
| 19 | They suggest that one of the most spectacular of supposed abiotic events — the deposition of huge amounts of iron in the seas of Archaean and early Proterozoic times , 3.5–1.8 billion years ago — was in fact biological in origin . |
| 20 | MIPS ' operations meanwhile , are slowly being dismantled by SGI : US reports suggest that 450 of the 685 jobs at MIPS are to go , although there are plans to redeploy at least 250 of those lost at other SGI sites . |
| 21 | Later still the ‘ heat waves ’ were thought to be produced by catastrophism — recent calculations by Tokajumi Matsui and Yutaka Abe of the University of Tokyo suggest that billions of tons of meteorites crashed into Earth to drive off the volatile materials and to turn the surface into seas of magma . |
| 22 | In 27 countries studied in the World Fertility Survey , the proportions of married women still childless by age 40–9 varied from 1.3 to 6.7 per cent , and historical data suggest that 3 per cent of couples are sterile from the beginning of reproductive life ( Population Reports 1983 , Bongaarts and Potter 1983 ) . |
| 23 | These researchers suggest that IRF-1 itself could be the target gene in 5q deletions and cite two further observations as indirect support for this concept . |
| 24 | The sequence of production of the dies suggest that three ‘ generations ’ of dies are represented , each generation represented by a few new designs and the abandonment of some of the original ones |
| 25 | We have presented data which suggest that three proteins , N-Oct 3 as well as N-Oct 5A and 5B are translated from the same mRNA by alternative translation initiation ; only the largest protein , N-Oct 3 , was able to stimulate transcription from an octamer promoter under our assay conditions . |
| 26 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
| 27 | These data suggest that HPV-16 may play an active part in colorectal carcinogenesis and may not be simply a casual DNA in transformed cells . |
| 28 | Tom proposed that two of these should be used as studs , or servers ; there were five women who were to be brood mares for the plantation . |
| 29 | He had mentioned to them the possibility of a deal and even the likelihood of profit , and proposed that one of the laundress 's sons come with a ladder and pick the tree clean this autumn , before the mulberries matured to that soft ripeness that threatened any laundry hanging near . |
| 30 | The document proposed that three leading anti-apartheid campaigners — Matthew Goniwe , Mbulelo Goniwe and Fort Calata — should be " permanently removed from society as a matter of urgency " . |