Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [adv] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that about 30,000 people leave the armed forces every year anyway . |
| 2 | If these occasions are known , the worker and supervisor may make a joint decision that only one member of staff from the Department may go . |
| 3 | Have a National Anthem that only one person ( ) can sing properly . |
| 4 | Although this was welcomed as showing that a ‘ majority ’ of the public were opposed to allowing children to die , it is a sad comment on the public 's understanding of mental and physical handicap that almost two-fifths thought that this was acceptable . |
| 5 | He was established as a lecturer in natural philosophy at Edinburgh University for many years , but it was not until the age of fifty-eight that his first publication is recorded , when his work on the structure of crystals culminated in his report ‘ on a method of so far increasing the divergence of the two rays in a calcareous spar that only one image may be seen at a time ’ ( Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal , vol. vi , 1829 ) . |
| 6 | The National Council for Voluntary Organizations ( NCVO ) has suggested from a recent survey that around 3,000 projects had been affected and had lost £285 million in funding ( MacGregor , 1990 ) . |