Example sentences of "[noun pl] that [verb] [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The personal , ‘ background ’ characteristics that make one person 's voice recognisably different from another .
2 TransTools ' latest product is MultiBase , an applications development tool for relational databases that took four years to develop .
3 When legering from a punt you do n't want to be messing about with indicators that require two hands to set .
4 The fox said " In the town they kill all foxes that have three balls .
5 Mr Hutton 's desk was a shaped piece of black wood with a single file on it , and the heavily bound books that covered one wall appeared to be held there by the power of faith , no shelves being visible .
6 No definitive explanations have been worked out for the differences between the two concentrations that lie 3000 kilometres apart in Antarctica .
7 Then , suddenly , when a manager had responsibility for tasks and projects that exceeded five years in scope , everyone seemed to perceive a difference not only in the scope of responsibility but also in its quality and in the kind of work and worker required to discharge it .
8 The room was flooded with a soft illumination , cleverly directed at the Gobelin tapestries that lined one wall .
9 The simplest maze is a T-maze in which the individual has to make one directional choice ; by rewarding rats that turn one way rather than the other ( or by giving them an electric shock if they turn in the opposite direction ) , the experimenter can teach them to make a consistent and predictable choice .
10 Yesterday , she showed promise again , however , when she outlasted experienced Italian , Sandra Cecchini , who is ranked 25th in the world , 6-4 , 4-6 , 10-8 , in a match of rollercoaster emotions that lasted three hours .
11 How many entries in that block , but because it 's between these other blocks that uses sixteen bytes as well .
12 This year 's Third Focus programme aims to provide a refreshing range of films that have one thing in common ; a commitment to entertaining audiences without insulting their intelligence .
13 On Christmas Eve these two LSIs , HMS Prince Leopold and HMS Prince Charles , sailed for Shetland with a screen of four destroyers , taking a rough pounding in force 8 to 9 gales that put 14 feet of water in the forward part of Prince Charles .
14 Having regard to the causes , it has to be recognized that the conditions that lead one plant to canker are also putting others to the same pressure , so look to your overall cultivation methods .
15 Figure 3.1 provides a simple snap-shot of only two dimensions that distinguish one industry from another .
16 In any event , few parents and teachers would be satisfied with a system with such weak powers of discrimination that it could detect nothing more detailed than changes that take two years to occur .
17 US Marines from the American Sixth Fleet landed at Beirut on 16th July ; and next day the British 16th Parachute Brigade was flown into Amman , but not without difficulties that highlighted two weaknesses in the air mobility assumptions of the Sandys doctrine .
18 Natal 's Supreme Court recently sentenced Muhammed-Rafiq Rodan , the former news editor of Post Natal , to 15 years in prison for sabotage , including three bombings that injured 17 people .
19 There are hotels which keep you waiting at reception , restaurants that serve you cold coffee , shops which never have what you want in stock , mail-order firms that take three months to deliver the wrong goods .
20 That 's because the series of eruptions that killed 350 people in June 1992 left a 3,000-mile long cloud of ash and sulphur dioxide circling the earth .
21 Random insertions to balanced tree files that use two index entries per track took rather less time as the overflow percentage in the file built up .
22 Big barbel though , have a distinct preference for swims that combine three factors : a fairly slack piece of water adjacent to a fast run , and especially where these two preside over a dense weedbed or some other kind of refuge such as a hole , steep ledge or sunken tree .
23 The wall is not in fact vertical though it is easy to misremember it as such , because it rises in three distinct layers of limestone , to heights of 6,900 , 8,500 and finally some 9,000 feet , with a filling of ice and snow on the slopes that divide one layer from the next .
24 Rather complicated interactions can occur at the synapses that connect one cell to another , so the dimensions of a synapse are also of interest .
25 ‘ David brings up situations that happened five years ago and still writes about them .
26 Protesters in Germany took to the streets of Solingen after an arson attack by neo-Nazis that killed five Turks .
27 He 'd made a lot of money out of hardware , sold out a chain of stores that covered three states and retired .
28 In many subjects , statements of attainment can not sensibly be seen as achievements that take two years of work .
29 Three exceptions to this pattern were low pouch vaginal or pouch perineal fistulas that developed 4–6 months after restorative proctocolectomy .
30 There were also the ‘ Popoffkas ’ , two circular Russian battleships that weighed 2,490 tons and went precisely nowhere .
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