Example sentences of "that [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nurse Price said that eight of the missing mackintoshes had been mysteriously returned , but thirty-eight were still missing . |
| 2 | If we exclude these brief references , we can say that 290 of the 444 interviews contain no memories of any grandparent . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Graham also reported that 12 of the 23 librarians had provided some form of budget estimates , though most of these had related largely to maintaining the existing value of materials funds by reporting on risen costs , from inflation such as the twice-yearly Average prices of British academic books and Blackwells 's information on periodical prices , together with other factors discussed in the section on public library budgeting above . |
| 5 | Neither side has given any estimate of the extent of the anticipated cuts but the expectation is that hundreds of the 2,200 jobs , which add up to a monthly £2 million pay bill , will have to be sacrificed . |
| 6 | It is also interesting that three of the four responses from Jane which overlap with Brenda 's talk in this turn exactly correspond to the points where she switches code . |
| 7 | The fact that three of the six sectors were nationalized — coal , electricity and railways — helped . |
| 8 | They showed that three of the five patients had excessive faecal excretion of carbohydrate and organic acids . |
| 9 | For this reason , the fact that three of the forty women had paid domestic help does not disqualify them from the title ‘ housewife ’ . |
| 10 | Later on in the meeting , Council member David Lindsay called for a full report on Training Outside Public Practice , following his discovery that 62 of the 77 students currently training under TOPP are employed by the National Audit Office . |
| 11 | He added that 17 of the former detainees were being reintegrated into the organization . |
| 12 | We were surprised to find that 18 of the 36 gears are underneath 2.5mph and 10 of them are above 7.5mph . |
| 13 | Thus if we trace the zones of the Lower Lias ( as it is called ) from the Dorset " basin " to the Mendip " axis " , we find that 11 of the 12 zones thin as they ought ( figure 3.3 ) with no signs of any breaks in the succession , but the twelfth actually thickens markedly ! |
| 14 | In Wadhurst , ‘ within the wood ’ , this had reached such a pitch that ten of the largest farmers were listed as unfree men , leasing their land from others ; there was also a substantial number of women farmers , such as Agnes at Wyk . |
| 15 | Table 2.1 shows that 1,305 of the 1,848 cases of opioid use known to official agencies were individual users of heroin or related drugs . |
| 16 | Thirteen rare species and 3 introduced species were also discovered and Dr Lassiere is particularly concerned that 8 of the 14 sites where these occurred have no special conservation protection . |
| 17 | Oesophageal motility studies showed that 16 of the 26 patients with Barrett 's columnar lined lower oesophagus had a defective lower oesophageal sphincter as defined by Zaninotto et al and a similar proportion of each group had weak or ineffective lower oesophageal peristaltic amplitude . |
| 18 | For his part , Mr Gaunt claims that 38 of the 50 members who have signed the exemption order saving them from the full rigour of the CFTC 's rules say they do not like the agreement . |
| 19 | This makes sense to the degree that one of the legal authorities whom Coke most often cites is Bracton ( Henry de Bracton , De Legibus et Consuetudinibus Angliae ) , who dies in 1268 , having flourished under Henry III of England and during the minority of Henry 's son , the future Edward I. Moreover Edward and Eleanor spent the winter of 1270–71 in Sicily , en route to the Holy Land , and returned there in 1272 for Edward to learn that , his father having died , he was king of England . |
| 20 | The trouble is that one of the defining characteristics of twentysomethings is their cynicism towards advertising . |
| 21 | Another counter to this argument might be to point out that one of the defining characteristics of higher education is that students are brought to the ‘ frontiers of knowledge ’ in a particular field . |
| 22 | It was obvious that one of the fortified monasteries characteristic of Bukovina had been turned into a terrorist camp . |
| 23 | The Highlander Lieutenant asked that one of the unlit chandeliers be raised from floor level so he could make certain there would be adequate room for his dancers ' crossed swords . |
| 24 | This can be seen in attempts to divide the contrary themes of ‘ I 'm not prejudiced but … ’ into separate levels ; by claiming that one of the contrary themes possesses a deeper psychological significance , one resolves the apparent contradiction . |
| 25 | Good professional advisers will remind their clients that one of the usual reasons people want money in the first place is to gain the freedom to live where they like . |
| 26 | Following Morris ( 1939 ) , however , Wimsatt argued that one of the distinguishing characteristics of poetry was to exploit the ‘ iconic or directly imitative ’ powers of language ( Wimsatt 1958 : 1 15 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ I call that one of the supreme bits of luck in life , ’ he said warmly , ‘ to be able to make your living out of what you love doing . ’ |
| 28 | He bewildered his audience for a moment , and then moved them , when he suddenly turned a political invective about government 's neglect of the environment into a lament that one of the sad losses was going to be the poetry of the countryside , the pastorals of a Vergil or a Theocritus . |
| 29 | Among all the fuss about income tax , I should like to point out that one of the best things the Conservatives have done is to allow a wife 's earnings to be taxed separately from her husband . |
| 30 | At this point it 's worth mentioning that one of the best approaches to persuasion in any situation can be to ask yourself : ‘ What 's in it for them ? ’ and to consider what needs ( as mentioned earlier in this chapter ) you can meet . |