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

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1 On the return of No. 16 to Sutton , the remainder of the J type were sent to Hendon one at a time and similarly rebuilt , except that they retained four windows .
2 A solitary predator it resembled the grey wolf , except that it had two horns — one long ivory one in the centre of its forehead , and the other a squat and curved tusk at the tip of its nose .
3 What we now call Euclidean space-time is very similar except that it has four dimensions instead of two .
4 Whereas that was one group that had the same number in fact more than that we had ninety people there .
5 Any more than that I wasted five minutes reading his articles ?
6 Er er and that they sit two hours doing e and exam you know for somebody who can watch at all .
7 ‘ He told me they had auditioned a lot of people back home and that they had five names in America that they were auditioning , and I was the first that day .
8 For example , it said I had a daughter called Samantha ( which is not true ) , and it said that I had a Citroen car ( which I do n't — I drive a Renault ) and that I spent three years at the Royal College of Art painting ten-inch red stripes on a piece of canvas and then it quoted me and it said : ' ’ I do n't know why we did it , ’ says Terry .
9 You got all in that , English there , English there , English there and English there , and that I had six merit points yesterday .
10 I was doing chequebooks and cards , and I had a very good run on them for about four months , but what with taking drugs and that I collapsed one time when I was working out on the street .
11 But now that you are reaching voting age and puberty , and will inevitably soon experience the same condition , I must tell you that my penis is fluorescent green and that I have five foreskins .
12 I learnt , many years later , that they paid over £30 to have a book of poems printed , and that it sold two copies .
13 Perhaps this a characteristic to be expected of a country where it is said that one person in every three is a civil servant and that it requires 72 government permits to open a mild bar .
14 Samuel Hitching stated that he examined the Coffin carefully and that it had two canvas patches on where there were decayed places in the Wood — he also measured the thickness of the Board and they were only 5/8 of an inch at top and ½ an inch thick at the bottom — the lid was also warped that they could not screw it down properly-One of the bearers also stated that he was afraid it would fall in pieces before they got to the Church with it .
15 She points out that there are five thousand people on the waiting list wanting to take up a Body Shop franchise and that it takes three years before any of them succeed .
16 Almost nothing is known of his family , childhood , or early education except that his father was private messenger to George IV and William IV , and that he had one sister and two brothers .
17 It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father .
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