Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [num] [noun pl] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Specific findings for the six companies that we were able to examine in detail are included in Appendix A to this report . |
| 2 | A few ‘ meanings ’ have been suggested for the five tones that have been introduced , but each tone may have many more such meanings . |
| 3 | In Environment Issues we do n't usually have room to record every birth , marriage and death ( hatches , matches and despatches ) , however , Hygiene Leeds warrants a mention for the five marriages that have taken place over the last three months . |
| 4 | For the four questions that go with this , sample answers are provided on the accompanying text pages . |
| 5 | Attracted by newspaper publicity ( the company did not bother to advertise ) 3000 people applied for the 20 jobs that were available . |
| 6 | This year the Railway has introduced a fully computerised reservation system to handle bookings for the 11,000 seats that are available . |
| 7 | This three-dimensional model can also be used to analyse the undergraduate curriculum , and will provide the three broad frames of reference for the three chapters that follow , which examine first degree courses in terms of concepts of knowledge , the economy and society , and the development of student ability or potential . |
| 8 | The starting point for the three readings that follow is the increased numbers of children under 5 whose parents both work , and who are cared for outside the family ( whether in a day nursery or with a child minder ) for a major part of the day ( 25 per cent of children under 5 in the United Kingdom had working mothers in 1976 , although only a small proportion of these were working full-time ) . |
| 9 | I just want to spread a few good words and hopefully raise a few pounds for the three groups that I am involved with , ’ says Rosemary . |
| 10 | But I am concerned for the three trees that David has just mentioned being removed . |
| 11 | Sir John Wolfenden , the then vice-chancellor of Reading University , was chosen to be its Chairman , a job which he was to hold for the three years that the Committee took to produce its Report . |
| 12 | To obtain this information , one measures their geometrical ‘ parallax ’ , the tiny distance by which they appear to move against the background of the farthest stars during the six months that the Earth takes to move to the opposite side of the Sun . |
| 13 | During the six years that the Century Guild existed its output was modest , though its participation in public exhibitions gave it a considerable influence . |
| 14 | During the six years that followed his restoration , Louis put together again the coalition of ecclesiastical and secular support that had sustained him in the 820s . |
| 15 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 16 | During the five minutes that he spoke about the Bill in his 52-minute speech he was floored by his own seconds — Conservative Back Benchers — when they expressed their concern . |
| 17 | She received no reply ; nor had she heard a word during the five years that had passed since , and she did n't know to this day if he was alive or dead , and she did n't care . |
| 18 | He pulled up his roots a second time and moved to another new land , Germany , where during the twelve years that were left to him he accomplished a ‘ ballet miracle ’ , building not merely a repertory and a company in Stuttgart , but a whole new public attitude that affected other theatres throughout the country . |
| 19 | During the twelve years that I 've been head teacher at this school I have waited for promised improvements at the crossroads , and in particular the Lane junction . |
| 20 | It should also be remembered that during the 14 years that the African elephant was listed on Appendix II , some 700,000 elephants were slaughtered . |
| 21 | The public would be excluded from most of the new site during the 10-14 years that the trees were growing . |
| 22 | DURING the four decades that have followed the US Supreme Court 's landmark Roe vs Wade decision , the debate over abortion has intensified to the point of ferocity , culminating recently in the murder of an obstetrician . |
| 23 | collective security During the four years that Nizan was writing in his capacity as foreign-affairs correspondent for L'Humanite ( 1935–7 ) and Ce Soir ( 1937–9 ) , he ceaselessly and fearlessly articulated a coherent antifascist diplomatic strategy based on the principle of collective security . |
| 24 | I speak as an hon. Member who has served time on four such Bills during the four years that I have been in the House — the City of London ( Various Powers ) Bill , the Tees and Hartlepool Port Authority Bill , and the London Underground Bills Nos. 1 and 2 . |
| 25 | Such was their anxiety during the two days that were left before the exam results were due that Mona and Sheila found it hard to eat or sleep . |
| 26 | Perspicacious as ever I asked the council 's marketing director , John Howard , if he had then researched what consumers were looking for during the 60 seconds that were being removed from their lives for ever . |
| 27 | This year just under 100 students will receive their first degrees at Stirling and Chief Careers Advisor Walter Abbott , who retires this summer , can look back and take pride in the fact that he and his small team in the careers office have had the opportunity to help prepare 16,000 students for ‘ life after Uni ’ during the 24 years that Walter has been here and seen the University grow . |
| 28 | During the three years that it has been accommodated at the Paris Exhibition Centre at Porte de Versailles — the original venue at CNIT having succumbed to the demolition expert 's hammer — the Salon Nautique has expanded by almost 20 per cent . |
| 29 | He discovered just how good during the three weeks that elapsed between the signing of contracts and the opening . |
| 30 | There would still be the difference between the two sections that , whereas section 5 plainly places the probative burden on the defendant , under section 4 , the defendant would have no more than an evidentiary burden to raise the issue , in which case it would be for the prosecutor to establish that he knew that witnesses were present . |