Example sentences of "[num] [prep] [art] [adj] [noun pl] [that] " in BNC.
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1 | The Wall Street Journal has called their bluff and finds that 12 of the 31 analysts that track IBM had buy recommendations on the stock on September 1 — and even after details of all the new cuts came out , only three had an outright sell recommendation on the stock , and last Tuesday morning , some were still rating it a buy . |
2 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
3 | The report could guide UK chemistry teaching into the 21st century , yet it allows children to be taught without atoms or molecules for eight of the 11 years that it covers . |
4 | The British units have already shed 1,730 of the 5,500 workers that they employed before going into receivership at the start of February . |
5 | It said 1,200 of the 1,700 employees that left during the quarter did so after voluntarily accepting severance packages , and it expects more departures as the job-cutting programme spreads to new countries . |
6 | A big erm , funnily enough , although three of the other chaps that were involved in , erm , one of them really upset me cos they run up together , he was navigator on together . |
7 | Er to come before two o'clock we 've got part three of the strange things that people do around Nottinghamshire to pass the time . |
8 | Carry the Lecfile with you , containing perhaps two or three of the last sheets that you were working on at the previous lecture . |
9 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
10 | By the time they are mature , hedgehogs can have several thousand of the modified hairs that give them their prickly appearance and an ideal form of defence against attackers . |
11 | This Government have implemented all 18 of the social measures that have so far been agreed under the social charter , which is more than can be said of a lot of our Community partners . |
12 | The 31-year-old from Malahide near Dublin lies 131st in this season 's money list and if he fails to move into the top 120 in the two months that remain he will have to go to the European tour qualifying school for the first time . |
13 | The race started with the smallest grid since 1932 , yet 16 of the 29 cars that qualified were still running at the end . |
14 | The Shropshire parish of Myddle lies some 160 miles away from London but at least fifteen of the ninety-one families that paid the hearth tax there in 1672 had one member or more who had been to the capital city . |
15 | The Labour Party recently publicised a series of financial projections for nine of the 10 authorities that not even the prospectuses will contain . |
16 | Not only did the Tories win more votes than seemed possible when the election was announced , but they improved their position relative to Labour on 13 of the 14 issues that Gallup monitored during the campaign . |
17 | One of the saddest things that old people find is the gradual dropping away of people who come to visit them . |
18 | That illusion was quickly dispersed , however — largely as a result of a walk down one of the crooked alleys that mark Brighton from most other seaside towns . |
19 | For the background of this design I found a rough raw silk which I felt looked much better than the more conventional old linen , but one could always choose one of the linen-covered mountboards that are available in similar colourings , or even hessian or plain linen . |
20 | They had all disappeared except for one of the bigger branches that bent and pointed a little his way and seemed now to come and go before his very eyes as drifting mist obscured it . |
21 | Well one of the , you see , one of the strange things that happened at that time , traditionally engineers , and I think I said this in my previous statements to you , for example in where there was no bonus ever adhered to , er our members looked at their , the daily production er er routine , that any interference as far as time was concerned , by the management you know , would be an intrusion on their sacrificial rites , and therefore it was n't tolerated . |
22 | We saw , we saw one or two others that were involved , that were involved in it , and er I were talking to the , one of the young producers that were there and er and I said if you 're short of some ac actors I said me and my mate will be actors you know , oh she said you 're dressed just right I 'll tell ya |
23 | One of the detrimental effects that Professor Taylor has observed is that managers can no longer find the time to go on external training courses . |
24 | I hope that , before 10 o'clock , my hon. Friends on the Front Bench will be able to assure me specifically that what my hon. Friend the Minister of State said in his letter to Dr. Morris would allow local education authorities , if approached by parents or friends of the school , to go into the school to deal with any one of the specific points that I have raised . |
25 | While there he received one of the fateful telegrams that were to dot the history of the underground : ‘ Phone Hoppy ’ it said . |
26 | Here is one of the standard procedures that is used to test whether a child has an adult-like appreciation of false belief . |
27 | This way of thinking has to be one of the blinder alleys that we have been led up by psychoanalysis . |
28 | Now while I finish it off , if you 'd like to just measure one of the interior angles that I 've already done . |
29 | One of the curious anomalies that this gave rise to was the difficulty of placing an institution such as the BBC into their scheme of things . |
30 | about how stuffy it is , and the like when we agreed that is was erm not as good as it could be , may I just say erm , but we have n't got any , if you like , er statistical measurement , and one of the actual points that were starting to do now is we 're actually going to start reporting tu , temperature and humidity on the first , second , and third floors within G P House . |