Example sentences of "[vb base] that [num] [noun pl] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Witnesses say that six protesters unfurled two banners outside the Ministry of Radio , Film and Television on Saturday afternoon . |
| 2 | The Chamonix guides ' association say that 47 climbers died this year in the Mont Blanc range to the end of August — equal to the total for the whole of last year . |
| 3 | The records of those discussions , which included three meetings of the War Cabinet , show that two issues predominated in the minds of those responsible for the formulation of British policy . |
| 4 | Concerning the goods carried , records of the Ragusan Lazarette for 1626 show that 120 ships left the port , carrying insured cargoes of 400,000 kg of assorted wool and 70,000 kg of cattle and buffalo hides . |
| 5 | The results of these surveys are given in the table , and show that 18 sites held Great Crested Grebes regularly in the breeding season and five sites , which were not occupied in 1975 , are probably occupied more often than not . |
| 6 | Our figures for oral carcinoma in south east Scotland over the past 10 years show that 456 patients presented with these tumours ; the mean age at presentation was 63.8 years for men and 68.2 years for women . |
| 7 | VAT returns show that 9,581 individuals reclaimed the tax in 1991 having completed a genuine , hands-on self-build project . |
| 8 | Will the Prime Minister confirm that 140 nations have signed the United Nations nuclear non-proliferation treaty , including Tory Canada ? |
| 9 | I read that 10 players had threatened to ask for transfers if I stayed on … they were supposed to be polled by telephone by some members of the Board . |
| 10 | Erm we know that three patients had cystectomies and one er that then the remainder have radiotherapy but I have n't analyzed the results dividing them into curative or potent radiotherapy . |
| 11 | Next door was a parchment maker , who had one corporal billeted on him , but we also know that 2 soldiers died in his house , and so it 's possible that he actually looked after wounded soldiers , which was , of course happening all over Oxford . |
| 12 | These indicate that three strands have been plied together ; they are obviously thicker and knit up more or less as a double knitting type yarn . |
| 13 | For example , suppose that two firms have earnings abroad of 100,000 before tax . |
| 14 | From memory , I believe that six incidents have been reported in the past year . |
| 15 | On arrival the patrol members find that two men have apparently just crashed a lorry through a fence and swum across the River Spree . |
| 16 | So desperate has the situation become that 18 estates have banded together and called in Dave Dunn . |
| 17 | Sadly , it 's all too common — the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents ( RoSPA ) estimate that 1,600 children fall from windows in Britain each year and around 15 die as a result . |