Example sentences of "[verb] [that] [adv] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If one also supposed that only one or two electrons could orbit at any one of these distances , this would solve the problem of the collapse of the atom , because the electrons could not spiral in any farther than to fill up the orbits with the least distances and energies . |
| 2 | Data for 1987 suggest that nearly 80 per cent of families where the head of household is unemployed have incomes below 50 per cent of average income ( Oppenheim , 1990 ) . |
| 3 | In particular we discuss two aspects of the interpretation of definite pronouns , which we call role mapping and name mapping , and suggest that either one of them may not occur in the interpretation of any particular sentence . |
| 4 | Market estimates suggest that approximately three quarters of secondary market turnover in dollar eurobonds ( which amounted to $358 billion in the first half of 1989 ) occurs in London . |
| 5 | Projected figures suggest that over 1,500 wildlife sites would be damaged or destroyed in the national roads programme . |
| 6 | Yet the 1986 figures from the Department of Health and Social Security suggest that almost 9 million , a sixth of the total British population are living on a wage which is on or below the SB poverty line . |
| 7 | Estimates based on contemporary data suggest that about 90 per cent of the population of the Balkans in the sixteenth century lived in rural areas . |
| 8 | These figures suggest that about 20 Alzheimer patients remained solely as neurology outpatients throughout Scotland during 1974–88 . |
| 9 | Consultants evaluating the zones suggest that only 55 per cent of these jobs are net additional jobs in the zones ( P.A. Consultants , 1987 ) . |
| 10 | Some estimates suggest that around 50 tons of waste — including cars , bottles , boxes , packing materials , tents and oxygen cylinders — are strewn around the foothills and lower slopes of Everest . |
| 11 | He adds that only two computer companies so far have sent manufacturing groups out to see what Crec is doing — IBM Corp , and ICL Plc , which has really turned on to ergonomics and the environment since it bought Nokia Data AB . |
| 12 | Do you know that nearly nine hundred thousand people walked off the streets of Britain into Citizen Advice Bureaux last year to ask for their help on employment issues because they had no trade union ? |
| 13 | It may interest you to be reminded that around 1911 a rather similar crisis was facing the newly emerging car industry . |
| 14 | Christmas carols blared tinnily from a loudspeaker system overhead and from every shop window , or so it seemed , the public was reminded that only four more shopping days remained until Christmas . |
| 15 | How Brecht would laugh to know that over 60 years after he wrote it , people were still being shocked by the words of third stanza , and like his own creator , Rosa Valleti , refusing to sing them ! |
| 16 | In ‘ realising development potential ’ the consultants propose that over 10 years some 930 000 sq . |
| 17 | They report that nationally 70 per cent of the population thought Woonerven to be attractive or highly attractive . |
| 18 | Indications of the likely proportions come from studies in two Dutch towns and in Berlin , which show some 20 per cent of injury-related accidents in built-up areas occurring on typical residential streets , and from OECD members who report that about thirty per cent of urban accidents occur on non-arterial roads . |
| 19 | Croatian President Franjo Tudjman made his name in the 1960s as a maverick historian who charged that only 30,000 people perished at the hands of the Ustashe fascists . |
| 20 | In the 30-member Tehran constituency all 30 members elected were pro-Rafsanjani candidates , and it was now claimed that over 70 per cent of the elected deputies supported Rafsanjani and the reformist policies of the grouping known as Jameh-ye Ruhaniyat Mobarez ( Society of Combatant Clergymen ) . |
| 21 | An earlier report in September 1988 had claimed that over 1,000 Indians and peasants had been killed in land disputes since 1980 at the instigation of landowners , with official collusion , and that priests , nuns , church workers , lawyers and trade unionists had also been killed for working on their behalf . |
| 22 | Johnson later claimed that over 12 million Americans had been lifted from the poverty trap . |
| 23 | In Sweden , it is claimed that nearly 10,000 lakes have such high concentrations of mercury that any fish caught in them should not be eaten . |
| 24 | In speeches summing up for Yeltsin it was claimed that about 40,000,000 people had been " eliminated " by the CPSU , and that 19,840,000 " enemies of the people " had been repressed . |
| 25 | How come that only two really explicit anti-war records have so far surfaced ? |
| 26 | Officials say that nearly three hundred were injured in the storm , which reduced buildings to matchwood . |
| 27 | Latinamerica Press has reported that nearly 200 of the 550 members of Congress and the Senate are owners of or have ties to some media outlet . |
| 28 | On Aug. 10 it was reported that over 47,000 commercial licences had been issued since the relegalization of small-scale private enterprise in February [ see p. 37252 ] . |
| 29 | It was reported that about 20,000 refugees fled to Uganda and Zaïre in the last two weeks of January as a result of the fighting . |
| 30 | A Sierra Leone Broadcasting Service announcement on Aug. 31 said that nearly 1,500,000 people had voted " yes " to the proposed constitutional changes ; the radio further reported that almost 75 per cent of the country 's 2,500,000 voters had participated . |