Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Pentagon estimates that 150000 Russians work full time on civil defence during peacetime , This would rise to 16 million in war . |
| 2 | An early Inland Revenue analysis of the revaluation suggest that 240,000 businesses in England face increases of 100 per cent or more in their annual bills ; about 230,000 rises between 50 and 100 per cent and a further 390,000 increases of between five and 50 per cent . |
| 3 | The NSP announced that 31 people , including students and teachers , had been indicted under the draconian anti-communist National Security Law . |
| 4 | A study in one polytechnic found that 11% of the bookstock was in circulation , while in another two samples taken from law and the humanities revealed that three issues per volume was the average use per annum , and that two-thirds of the items were loaned in a two-year period . |
| 5 | The Guardian reports that 25 baby sharks ( in this case Tope ) were being cared for at the Sea Life Centre at Hastings after their mother was netted by a fisherman . |
| 6 | The story goes that one photographer on board the Queen Mary on her maiden voyage sent film back to Fleet Street by carrier pigeon . |
| 7 | A new survey recently published by the CIOB found that three quarters of the members surveyed believed that the banks have a negative policy towards the construction industry . |
| 8 | The Department admitted that seven questions in the original specimen were ‘ too difficult ’ . |
| 9 | The study reported that one by-product of representation is that the tribunal tends to scrutinize other cases more carefully . |
| 10 | The deal means that 1,000 fax and 800 copier contracts for former Hill customers on Tyneside and Teesside will be transferred to the new owner . |
| 11 | By 1982 , the Norwegians calculated that 2,000 trout fisheries had been lost , while 5,000 lakes across some 33,000 km² ; had turned acid , 1,750 of them losing all their fish . |
| 12 | The equation shows that one mole of Age ions produces one mole of AgCl(s) . |
| 13 | SOLUTION We have already met the equation for the reaction : The equation shows that one mole of lead(II) iodide can be produced from one mole of lead(II) nitrate . |
| 14 | SOLUTION The equation is The equation shows that one mole of C02 is produced from one mole of CaCO , . |
| 15 | In an ironic twist , the FDA estimates that 98 percent of carcinogens found in food are naturally occurring . |
| 16 | It is thus most unlikely that the legislature intended that one person or body should be capable of being in both categories . |
| 17 | The exchange assumed that 150,000 tonnes of cocoa must be bought for delivery to the holders of long positions . |
| 18 | Some of the judges thought that one effect of rule 3(7) was to abolish the distinction , so far as standing was concerned , between mandamus on the one hand , and certiorari and prohibition on the other ; but at least two of their Lordships were less certain on this point . |
| 19 | Yesterday , the NFU warned that 1990 figures would reveal a fresh 10 per cent . |
| 20 | The judge found that six members of the management committee , including the appellant and the defendant , resolved to dismiss the plaintiff . |
| 21 | According to The Times of April 12 , the DPK claimed that 50 people had been killed during an attack by government troops on a refugee centre near Halabja on the Iranian border . |
| 22 | 1760 " The Meeting Appoints that Six days in harvest be Imployed in Working on the Roads of Islay , … |
| 23 | 1760 " The Meeting Appoints that Six days in harvest be Imployed in Working on the Roads of Islay , … |
| 24 | A report to the meeting says that 24 people , living in 14 properties near the plant , had signed a petition strongly objecting to the proposal . |
| 25 | In all the Group estimated that 300,000 people had served prison sentences of two or more years in East Germany since 1945 . |
| 26 | In addition to the existing members of Concorde , the group says that seven retailers and suppliers are examining further opportunities to exploit the new service . |
| 27 | The organisers predicted that 130000 people would visit over the whole five days . |
| 28 | The court heard that four soldiers — Paul Fraser , Ian Smith , Brian Sim and Sean Bland — had arrived at the pub at about 10.40 p.m. in Fraser 's white Volkswagen Sirocco and stayed there watching the title fight between boxers Chris Ewbank and Michael Watson on the television . |
| 29 | In Heydon 's case ( 1584 ) the court required that four questions should be considered when giving a meaning to a statutory provision : |
| 30 | In April 1992 the invest-igation revealed that 26 assaults had occurred — involving at least 70 male officers either directly or as bystanders — but that identifying the culprits had proved extremely difficult because of the " closing of ranks and obfuscation " . |