Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his excellent review of studies of ‘ what managers do ’ , Hales has argued that three areas of difficulty may be encountered in the published research evidence on managerial work , viz : |
| 2 | After a time Boldwood started to hope that one day , if Bathsheba remarried at all , she would marry him . |
| 3 | That gave me an extra day off , since Jack had decided that one practice round was enough for him . |
| 4 | The first comprehensive study of the quality of environmental impact reports in Britain has found that three quarters associated with major road building schemes are unsatisfactory , while two-thirds submitted to local authorities to cover factories , farm buildings , out-of-town shopping centres and quarries are also inadequate . |
| 5 | The trade in plutonium between Britain and the US has shown that two countries that proclaim their peaceful intentions as loudly as any are not beyond suspicion and that it is difficult to believe assurances that nuclear power stations have no weapons connection . |
| 6 | Lydia had said that one night 's fast would be preferable to the plight in which they did indeed now find themselves , but Betty regarded the idea of missing a meal as unnatural and Lydia was overruled . |
| 7 | A post-mortem on the body of Mr Friel had revealed that three stab wounds had penetrated the lungs and death had been caused by bleeding . |
| 8 | On Aug. 27 the USA had announced that 1,500 US troops would remain in Kuwait for another few months . |
| 9 | Donald Davie has suggested that one reason for the explosion of theory is that it provides ‘ a stamping ground for the innumerable people in departments of English ( also of French , of German , of Classics ) who have energy and intelligence but no literary sensibility . ’ |
| 10 | For seventeenth-century Somerset , J. H. Hamer has shown the influence of White Down fair near Crewkerne , and Christopher Gerrard has shown that two fairs at Taunton held only a few weeks apart had a major influence on the trading of cattle and horses in the West Country . |
| 11 | It was the first time Charlie had thought that 112 Whitechapel Road might be considered luxurious . |