Example sentences of "[verb] that four " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suggest that four suspects as well as your murderer will be quite enough to cope with . |
| 2 | Although I hoped that I would find that the church stood at least on one circle , I was not prepared to find that four Circles of Time passed through it ! |
| 3 | It was reported that four people were killed . |
| 4 | It found that four out of five publicans and restaurateurs in the survey agreed it was good for business , and four out of five managers said recorded music made customers stay longer . |
| 5 | In a study of 400 of the biggest bank mergers in the 1980s , FMCG Capital Strategies , a New York consultancy , found that four out of five deals failed miserably — to the point where they soon destroyed value for the acquiring bank . |
| 6 | The Cameron Report found that four policemen were injured during the clashes in Duke Street and a further seven during the later clashes at the Diamond and on the fringes of the Bogside . |
| 7 | The same Exeter University study found that four of the 10 farms it looked at were making losses on their non-traditional businesses . |
| 8 | The survey , by Industrial Relations Services in Equal Opportunities Review , looked at 4,000 job advertisements for evidence of age bias — and found that four out of five asked for applicants to be under 45 . |
| 9 | Our survey found that four out of 10 boys agree it 's difficult not to have sex if all your friends are doing it . |
| 10 | In December 1982 a Marplan public opinion poll found that four out of five of those questioned thought that early retirement was a desirable measure for alleviating unemployment . |
| 11 | The teacher found that four could read Messrs Nelson 's Shilling Book , six the Sixpenny Book , and ten only the Threepenny Book " With the " board schools " in their infancy , it was by no means clear that it would have been possible to recruit many girls of working-class origin into the trade in the early 1870s . |
| 12 | A World Bank study in 1986 found that four newly industrialized countries ( Colombia , South Korea , Mexico and Thailand ) obtained as much as 72 per cent of their revenue from indirect taxes . |
| 13 | In Ayrshire this July , Systems Three found that four out of five of those polled were strongly opposed to the scheme . |
| 14 | They reported that four other cars were also doing the same thing . |
| 15 | The Financial Times of Feb. 12 reported that four senior company officials at the pit were to be tried for negligence . |
| 16 | In October 1989 a member of the Executive Council , Tony Blake , reported that four oil companies had approached Fullerton seeking oil exploration licences ; he commented that the sale of such licences could be worth several times as much as the revenue from fishing licences . |
| 17 | When I had finished , and when we had counted the money in the hat ( which we did round the corner , discreetly ) , I realized that four songs had earned us enough to pay for a proper meal , each , in a cheap restaurant . |
| 18 | On Feb. 15 the Swedish Foreign Ministry announced that four Iraqi diplomats accused of spying on refugees had also been ordered to leave the country . |
| 19 | A friend of hers then revealed that four years earlier Manning had twice raped her . |
| 20 | The Romtec figures for machines in use , culled from a survey conducted last summer , show that four out of ten of the machines are based on the 286 chip or an inferior processor . |
| 21 | The actual statistics reveal that four times out of ten a suggestion is followed by an agreement and that is n't a bad hit rate . |
| 22 | Well intentioned as the EEC goal is , it is worth remembering that four out of five cars would be unable to run if the lead were removed . |
| 23 | He noted that four kinds of culturally derived orientations toward politics seem to have a bearing on the pattern of opposition . |
| 24 | Imagining that four male admirers at least would be waiting outside Miss Grey 's room , be already inside … |
| 25 | On their way to a match against Great Lever , it was said that four members of the Accrington team became so ‘ liquored up ’ when they stopped to take refreshment at Blackburn that they missed their train . |
| 26 | We have always said that four boats are the minimum . |
| 27 | The Countryside Commission for Scotland has published a report recommending that four national parks should be created to prevent further damage to mountain areas . |
| 28 | In conclusion , this study confirms that four weeks treatment with elemental diet , when tolerated , is as effective as prednisolone . |
| 29 | A typical study of ancient Egyptian tools and weapons , particularly axes , shows that four copper-based metals or alloys were used from the early third millennium BC to the middle of the first millennium BC : ‘ pure ’ copper ; arsenical copper ( an alloy of copper with up to h per cent of arsenic ) ; tin bronze or leaded tin bronze ; and iron . |
| 30 | Arafat claimed that four people had been killed and 231 injured in the town by Israeli forces " as a result of the erroneous announcement that the driver of the bus carrying Israeli tourists in Egypt was of Palestinian origin and came from Rafah " . |