Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And the old ewe that three times has miscarried |
| 3 | I remind the hon. Gentleman that 97 people have been charged with terrorist crimes during the past two months , including 11 for murder . |
| 4 | Within the Lakatos account , then , one can never make the unqualified claim that one research programme is ‘ better ’ than a rival . |
| 5 | There is no unrealistic assumption that one hour of talk will produce any definitive solutions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The solid education system , full if unexciting shops , the fact that East Germany is socialism 's only economic miracle , ranking among the world 's top 10 industrial countries — it all bores people unspeakably , as much as those triumphal lists of foreign dignitaries attending today 's ceremonies , and the constant reminder that 135 countries recognise the 1945 Soviet occupation zone as a second German state . |
| 15 | Asia Watch , the US-based human rights group , had been quoted as saying the previous week that 133 members of the Nung ethnic group held in Hong Kong refugee camps faced persecution if they were returned to Vietnam . |
| 16 | Each year the ‘ hockey stick ’ moves on a year , or sometimes two years , and the only certainty is the constant conviction that five years out everything is going to be all right . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If the Minister can identify any objective professional evidence that five years is the period needed , that would be very interesting , but I believe that all the expert evidence that he received supported a period of seven years . |
| 19 | ‘ Is it really such a terrible tragedy that one person out of so many has failed to fall under your spell ? ’ |
| 20 | He lifted the phone and she followed his instructions to such good effect that fifteen minutes later she came back into the sitting-room , her overnight case in her hand . |
| 21 | Simpler embodiment of the idea with the slight drawback that two high-Z voltage references are needed . |
| 22 | Ministere de l'Agriculture figures for Cantal show that 4,265 hectares of land ( 1.1% of the agricultural land ) on 1,161 farms have been ‘ drained ’ ; in the 1970/71 Census the figures were 3 , 124 hectares on 949 farms . |
| 23 | Firstly , there was the bare fact that two London East Enders , both of whom had left school at fifteen and were quite untutored in writing , had felt so passionately about their situation that , in different prisons and unknown to each other , they had each set themselves the daunting task of writing the equivalent of full-length books . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Robert Gates , the director of the US Central Intelligence Agency ( CIA ) , has told a Senate select committee that forty years of inadequate nuclear waste handling have created high risk of nuclear disasters in the former Soviet Union . |
| 26 | Second , the growing belief that two people must have been involved in things , quite certainly in the murder . |
| 27 | It can certainly be passed on by kissing , and there has recently been strong epidemiological evidence that CMV infection can be sexually transmitted . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | And viewers were given the ridiculous impression that two blokes from Sussex University , rather than Eugene Garfield , had invented citation analysis as a means of assessing quality in research . |
| 30 | Yet talk to any established composer nowadays , and the likelihood is that he or she is about to be embroiled in some kind of operatic project , perhaps planned for the middle-distant future ( timescales are necessarily generous for opera ) but nevertheless fully engaged in the kind of musical thinking that three decades ago would have beyond the wildest dreams for all but the most exclusive , established few — Benjamin Britten and Tippett in Britain , Hans Werner Henze on the Continent . |