Example sentences of "[adj] that [prep] [num] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However we also made it clear that as one part of Labour 's wider democratic agenda , that we were sympathetic to looking at a plurality of electoral systems and that this might include legislating for a regional list system of proportional representation for future European elections . |
| 2 | They tend to think of profits as being directly related to the volume of sales and find it confusing that for one year the reported sales are higher than the previous year but the reported net profit is lower . |
| 3 | But I was so lucky that with one exception , everything seemed to fall into place at exactly the right time . ’ |
| 4 | Providing there was no direct Chinese communist intervention he was utterly confident that in one year not only would he have secured the Tonkin Delta but would have completely eradicated the Vietminh from South Vietnam so that , by the spring of 1953 , the Vietminh revolt would have been stamped out . |
| 5 | An early decree ordered the destruction of heathen temples ; and the pressure of Westernisation was so relentless and meticulous that at one stage male Christians could be fined for urinating in the oriental , crouched position . |
| 6 | The damage had been so severe that at one stage , the fail out order had been given . |
| 7 | Walden was so small that on one occasion , entering the players ' quarters behind his team-mates on arrival at an away game , he was told , ‘ Go away , sonny , ’ by an official . |
| 8 | In addressing these conflicting aims , the Institute 's Council , in 1987 determined that from 1997 entry would be by examination only . |
| 9 | It is plausible that on one level this new démarche was directed at Indian reservations about Soviet intervention in Afghanistan and the intensified tensions which ensued in the Indian Ocean . |
| 10 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 11 | Though , as he had already noted , Matthew was aware that to one stratum of society the choice between Annabel 's or Regine 's could be seriously serious . |
| 12 | Is my right hon. and learned Friend aware that in 1983 unemployment in my Leicestershire , North-West constituency was 14 per cent . |
| 13 | It is significant that at one time in their lives both Sarah and Diana have suffered from debilitating eating disorders , anorexia nervosa and bulimia respectively . |
| 14 | It is true that since 1982 allowance has been made for inflation — indexation — when calculating capital gains generally ( and gains made before 1982 are no longer eligible for any tax ) . |
| 15 | It is true that on one occasion , when asked if Gandhi had not been tiresome , he replied that ‘ Some people found Our Lord very tiresome ’ ; but in the context of general unsympathy it is difficult to know what to make of this very Irwinian rebuke . |
| 16 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |