Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] that [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within the Lakatos account , then , one can never make the unqualified claim that one research programme is ‘ better ’ than a rival . |
| 2 | There is no unrealistic assumption that one hour of talk will produce any definitive solutions . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When we read in the Roslavl' files that twenty-three agitator brigades were dispatched to villages in order to celebrate international Women 's Day , it is hard to imagine that they ever came across our peasant woman from Struga , and even more difficult to believe that they would have much impact on her ways of thinking even if they did . |
| 7 | There is something decidedly odd about objecting to it that the mere psychological fact that one alternative is more pleasant than another can not by itself be a reason for choosing it . |
| 8 | ‘ Is it really such a terrible tragedy that one person out of so many has failed to fall under your spell ? ’ |
| 9 | Yet the latest genetic discoveries indicate that , on a different level , man is so close to the great apes that one researcher has seriously suggested that a man/chimpanzee hybrid might be a viable creature . |
| 10 | However , the very fact that the right to park is not exclusive means that one tenant may appropriate more than his fair share of parking spaces . |
| 11 | Then he had inherited a romantic faith that one day God 's own city , Jerusalem , where he had suffered and died and been buried , would be rescued from the infidel . |
| 12 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 13 | It is a measure of our changing standards that 3.5 metre boats such as the Dancer , Mountain Bat and Invader are regarded as large boats today . |
| 14 | Advanced police driver Constable Paul Phillips and Constable Zena Goode told an inquest Northampton General Hospital that 17 year old Mark Windram was travelling in a stolen car at speeds of up to 90 miles an hour through the town . |
| 15 | Sometimes mistaken for the name of a tribe of redskins , the word ‘ Hooliganism ’ established itself in Russia with such authority and incomprehensible rapidity that one observer thought in 1912 that it was ‘ as if it had long been expected , as if necessary for the filling of an empty space ’ . |
| 16 | The first is a simple reflection of the common view that one person should so far as possible be entitled to tell another person to mind his own business . |
| 17 | ‘ The first is a simple reflection of the common view that one person should so far as possible be entitled to tell another person to mind his own business . |
| 18 | ‘ I also want to make it clear as a private individual that I cam do nothing to stop them . ’ |
| 19 | This is consistent with the first-order dependence of uptake on external glutamate and internal potassium concentrations , and with the thermodynamic determination that two sodium ions are transported . |
| 20 | To have a week away , and with Fräulein Silber … even the thought of Omi faded as she thought of it ; after all , it would only be for one week , pushing away the traitorous thought that one week for herself was quite different from a week in Omi 's life , and , treachery giving way to treason , she did have her own life to lead ; and so she said , firmly , ‘ It will be all right , Fräulein . |
| 21 | I saw so many of these earnest young hopefuls that one day , I 'm sure , we will be invaded by battalions of these wunderkinder descending by parachutes above the Royal Festival Hall , violins strapped to their backs . |
| 22 | One said last week : ‘ She 's such a sweet person that one day when she thought we looked tired and hungry she ordered in pizzas . ’ |