Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Israeli army denied claims by Islamic Jihad that three of their members flying hang gliders to attack Israel were shot down on Oct. 29 in southern Lebanon . |
| 2 | Looking back , we can now say that Franco 's response to the Moroccan crisis gave a clear indication that 1956 marked a turning point in his political and personal life . |
| 3 | It was probably whilst flying high over an approaching enemy that one Goblin got a bit carried away , and steering himself as best as he could with his crude wings , crashed right down onto the enemy army . |
| 4 | The old adage that eighty per cent of profits come from twenty per cent of the business invites the removal of the inefficient eighty per cent of the business . |
| 5 | I can tell my hon. Friend that 17 of Wolverhampton 's 18 secondary schools have surplus places . |
| 6 | I can tell my hon. Friend that four out of five of those elderly patients have accepted their check-ups and that nine out of 10 found them useful . |
| 7 | And the old ewe that three times has miscarried |
| 8 | Scientific evidence that two of them had handled explosives had been discredited after it was shown that the constituents of soap could give the same positive results in the main test used to detect traces of explosive in 1974 . |
| 9 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that 97 people have been charged with terrorist crimes during the past two months , including 11 for murder . |
| 10 | NOVEMBER 5 : British Coal gives undertaking to the High Court that 10 doomed pits will be maintained while row continues . |
| 11 | Within the Lakatos account , then , one can never make the unqualified claim that one research programme is ‘ better ’ than a rival . |
| 12 | The old belief that one major source of crime was to be found in poor social conditions , for example , was not supported … |
| 13 | There is no unrealistic assumption that one hour of talk will produce any definitive solutions . |
| 14 | The UN move followed a Serbian order that 28,000 Bosnians must leave their republic in one of the biggest single acts of ‘ ethnic cleansing ’ seen yet . |
| 15 | Further , there are cases known , such as Bridgwater Bay , where it is a question of historical fact that two spits have grown towards each other . |
| 16 | Third , if the crude mechanism of totting up the votes for different parties is to be employed for the purpose of supporting a specific contention , there is the inconvenient fact that 79 per cent of those who voted in Scotland backed parties that wish to maintain the Union . |
| 17 | More effective , perhaps , in his war against ignorance and prejudice are the depressing statistics he cites of gay abuse and assault , including the chilling revelation that 19 per cent of gay teenagers attempt suicide . |
| 18 | Even if the court is satisfied that there is a real prospect that one or more of the purposes ( set out above ) can be satisfied , it still retains a discretion as to whether or not to make an administration order . |
| 19 | Enya does n't go in for intellectual analysis of her music much , but when I tell her these first reactions to her heart- breakingly beautiful new album , ‘ Shepherd Moons ’ , she lights up with a certain delighted relief that two years of studio work seems to be hitting the right target . |
| 20 | As in Miss Austen 's day it was universally accepted that a young unmarried man with a house and fortune was in need of a wife , so Mrs Girdlestone might have been beguiled into accepting a somewhat similar assumption that one elderly lady living alone is in need of an even more elderly lady to live with her ( prudently stipulating , however , the three months only , in case she should wish to draw back ) . |
| 21 | There is , of course , much talk in the developed world that one of the roles of education is selection — picking out for advancement people who best fit a certain mould . |
| 22 | ( An irony of the conference was that not one shred of evidence was produced for the central assertion that three years ' full time training in research was essential . ) |
| 23 | When the National Curriculum was first unveiled , in the shape of Mr Baker 's celebrated ‘ Little Red Book ’ , I wrote a piece which began : ‘ If this were genuinely a consultative document , I should reply to its chief begetter that 20 per cent of it is potentially helpful , 20 per cent unexceptionable , and 60 per cent either foolish or dangerous or both ’ . |
| 24 | The tendency of the mind to move from one thing to another has to consist in the straightforward fact that one thing usually follows , or is caused by , the other ; the tendency or association can not be thought of as some experienced feature of the situation without reviving the original situation of having an unanalysed conception of the mind 's ability to reach out and apprehend things . |
| 25 | It is possible to find the origin of the synapses ending on cells of the type Hubel and Wiesel recorded from , and it is an amazing fact that 80 per cent or more of their excitatory input comes from other cortical cells , and less than 20 per cent from the nerve fibres coming up from the eye . |
| 26 | People bought her lunch and rang her up and sent her birthday cards ; it seemed a particularly cruel joke that one of the few people who really did dislike her should be married to her . |
| 27 | Other ineffective communicators fail to mention what ‘ it ’ actually is because they still carry an infantile illusion of being able to fuse with another — an unconscious belief , wish or rueful hope that one person can get inside the mind of another . |
| 28 | It is a remarkable coincidence that two men , relative strangers , put a noose knot in exactly the same place , Vechey copying Brampton in every particular when he hanged himself . |
| 29 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 30 | Faxing or telexing a 60–70 page document is a time-consuming and therefore expensive process , and always with that nagging uncertainty that one or two pages might not have transmitted properly . |