Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the elections were held in September , 1956 , the P.N.M. were the only party out of the seven running to contest all 24 constituencies , with the result that they won 13 seats ( later rising to 14 ) and polled 39% of the vote . |
| 2 | He lost so much weight that he wore two suits , one on top of the other , because he despised the sign of toll . |
| 3 | Beestons , the Carltons and the Mansfields that we patrolled twenty years ago . |
| 4 | He was also offered the post of organist at Versailles , on condition that he spent six months of the year there , but , after some reflection , he turned it down , arousing Leopold 's anxieties once more . |
| 5 | It is not the case that we name one condition as cause because it is different from others in any respect having to do with the relations of which we know . |
| 6 | when Moore says he knows such and such [ for instance that he has two hands : JD ] he is really enumerating a lot of empirical propositions which we affirm without special testing ; propositions , that is , which have a peculiar logical role in the system of our empirical propositions . |
| 7 | Teaching her all the domestic arts , Melissa reflected , in the hope that she 'd one day end up a housewife and mother in the true Italian tradition . |
| 8 | And the finding that it takes 400 msec to generate the electrical activity associated with the meaning of visually presented words suggests that this is one of the most complex activities our perceptual systems are asked to perform . |
| 9 | The officer told the defendant three times that he considered two pickets at each entrance were sufficient but the defendant , persisting in his intention to join the pickets , ‘ pushed gently past ’ the police officer , ‘ was gently arrested ’ , and was charged with obstructing the police in execution of their duty . |
| 10 | Suppose we make known to a child that we have three sticks , all of different length . |
| 11 | And Eva , the smaller one , argued with Janice that they had two cars . |
| 12 | So a conductor 's duty were n't very very nice then , probably three piece duties , which were spread duties but you know people thought they were bringing in a wonderful thing to be one man operated but it was before the war that we had one man operated buses . |
| 13 | So they 're gon na take you on now on the basis that you work seven days a week . |
| 14 | By mid-September there were some 150,000 US military and support personnel in the region , but on Sept. 13 the senior US commander in the Gulf , Gen. Norman Schwarzkopf , dampened the growing speculation about a possible move on to the offensive in mid-October , expressing the opinion that he needed two months to bring the forces up to strength . |
| 15 | ‘ It is certainly a polygon , and our historians , experts and researchers have come to the conclusion that it has 24 sides and is 100ft in diameter . ’ |
| 16 | Despite having the worst of yesterday 's weather , Torrance was so sharp with his putter that he had seven birdies and no bogeys . |
| 17 | And do children really do the same chemistry that I did twenty years ago ? |
| 18 | A taxi driver told Gloucester Crown Court that he saw two drivers laughing at each other as they roared past him nose-to-tail just before the crash . |
| 19 | MI5 and Special Branch also open mail illegally and break into so many properties that they have one section that does nothing else . |
| 20 | John Johnson said in evidence that he heard two shots and saw the defendant 's car reverse and then drive away from the scene ‘ like a jet . ’ |
| 21 | You can recharge it overnight , and then travel , secure in the knowledge that you have 40 minutes of brushing time available . |
| 22 | The beliefs which , he suggests , play this special role for us now include the belief that I have two hands , that men do not fly to the moon , that the sun is not a hole in the sky , that the earth has existed during the last century and that our hands do not disappear when we are not paying attention to them . |
| 23 | So bleak are the prospects that I heard one media journalist muttering that the ITC ought not to be advertising the franchise at all . |
| 24 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 25 | But till receipts back his claim that he bought three bottles of red wine for £17.47 in the firm 's Connaught Street store a day earlier , helping push his card over the limit . |
| 26 | It described as exaggerated the FMLN 's claim that it controlled 5,000 sq km of territory — a quarter of the country . |
| 27 | We do remind people that they need one cylinder of piston diaphragm pump per spear , if they are running it off their sprayer , though . ’ |
| 28 | When I tell people that I spent 10 years in the European Parliament , they tell me that I was a hedonist . |
| 29 | He has been so successful at keeping his private life private that it took six months for the world 's gossip columns to find out that he married his long-term girlfriend Phoebe Cates , star of the Gremlins films . |
| 30 | Erm , we are two-ply , diploid , in a sense that we get one set of our genes from one parent and another complete set from the other parent . |