Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you will find for instance that three times as many people will strongly oppose and was strongly in favour , something omitted from the report in front of me and there are eight per cent there that were indifferent . |
| 2 | The attempt has failed , through scepticism that one man could have supervised such a major project whilst still discharging Elias 's functions as steward and administrator elsewhere . |
| 3 | Meanwhile speculation about the emergence of a " fresh strain of HIV " grew after reports that 30 patients in France , Spain , the United Kingdom and the USA had developed a rare form of immuno-deficiency illness with AIDS-like symptoms but without traces in their blood of known strains of HIV . |
| 4 | This exploding complexity of larger and larger units must impose some limitations on the capabilities of management , ie the span of control is limited by the number of inter-relationships that one person can manage . |
| 5 | A minority were more fortunate , if one can take as reasonably accurate the report by the Commissariat of Agriculture that 109,705 peasants were taken out of the famine zone and settled on farming land in Siberia , the Ukraine , the Caucasus , and elsewhere . |
| 6 | If the oil film breaks down momentarily for a very short period of time that little bit of carbon that four percent carbon in the cast iron will actually stop the aluminium sticking to the cylinder . |
| 7 | The problem there is that users that do adopt OS/2 2.0 whole heartedly run the risk of finding themselves in the same fate of neglection that 8100 users suffered after the first glow of perceived success began to fade . |
| 8 | Was n't it in the first cousin of just this sort of place that two centuries earlier another wandering fiddler , the blind poet Raftery , had composed his famous lament about ‘ playing music to empty pockets ’ ? |
| 9 | It 's just one more indication of the madness of war that four lads from Montreal or Quebec should lose their lives on a Dales hill . |
| 10 | But nobody told the fish over millions of years of evolution that one day they would be prized for their decorative/educational/food value and put in overcrowded conditions ( relatively speaking ) in glass tanks/bowls , or ponds . |
| 11 | It was not the proper way of things that one man should walk as if with indifference towards the opened gates of Camp 3 at Barashevo , and the guards watched him , and the dogs eyed him . |
| 12 | Carlos Navarro , resigned on June 20 as treasurer of the parliamentary group of the ruling Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) , as a result of allegations that two Madrid consulting companies with which he had been associated were fronts for the channelling of illegal donations to the PSOE from corporations and banks . |
| 13 | It was just this kind of argument that two company directors put forward when they were prosecuted in New South Wales in 1979 for apparently causing shareholders to lose more than A$22 millions ( Hopkins 1980b ) . |
| 14 | Lockwood received so little support from the Board of Trustees that one member , Professor Kevin Cathcart , head of the Department of Near Eastern Languages at University College , Dublin , resigned in 1988 . |
| 15 | She was trembling , aflame with a happiness so great she thought she could never contain it as Rune discarded his own clothes with such rapidity and lack of care that two shirt buttons fell unheeded on to the carpet . |
| 16 | It was not altogether beyond the bounds of possibility that one day , somewhere , they could meet again . |
| 17 | ‘ It 's puzzled me for years that four times out of five the Wheel is recovered , but I ca n't recollect a single instance of the Scapegoat being brought in . ’ |
| 18 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 19 | I NOTE with disgust that two students are able to spend £25 on a tome of filth . |
| 20 | When it comes to the more subtle realms of responses and sensitivities to homoeopathic remedies , even small strain variations could so change the sensitivity of the species under study that one strain might respond well to a particular remedy while a second , apparently similar strain may not respond at all . |
| 21 | Whatever the particular significance of these RPs in terms of information processing , it is reasonable to conclude with Libet that 550 msec is the minimum interval by which neural activity precedes a self-initiated , and therefore presumably voluntary , movement . |
| 22 | Mr Sells 's statement came on the third day of the inquiry into allegations that three London specialists were involved in trafficking in kidneys . |
| 23 | Moreover , it is right to take into account that one mischief sought to be addressed by legislation was the fact that third parties often assisted share-pushing operations . |
| 24 | A police investigation has been launched into claims that two men were wrongly convicted of murder . |
| 25 | There is every reason to believe that this degree of movement was typical of the corn-growing regions , but we have to constantly bear in mind that one part of England may have very different experiences from another and that even neighbouring communities might have contrasting stories to tell . |
| 26 | Lay the two curtains out flat on top of each other with right sides facing , and bear in mind that one curtain as laid out represents half the window ( fig. 49 ) . |
| 27 | always keep a special look out for cyclists particularly when overtaking or turning , bearing in mind that two wheels are much less easy to see than large vehicles . |
| 28 | However the link was not lost , and the hope grew in Israel that one day God would raise up a prince of the Davidic line for whom the Spirit would be no passing enduement , to be bestowed and with drawn as he joined his predecessors in disobedience . |
| 29 | The kings had been pretty poor specimens as ‘ sons ’ : they showed little enough of Yahweh 's family likeness , and there was a long-standing hope in Israel that one day God would bring into the world a messianic Son , a worthy ruler to sit on David 's throne . |
| 30 | Kalm was very impressed by the stoves at Chelsea , ‘ all arranged in the way discribed in Dictionary ’ , and he learned from Miller that two orangeries in England had been burnt by tan overheating ( the fermenting bark of the oak and a by-product from the tanning industry ) . |