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 . |