Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do I already have some suspicion that one day it is going to be removed from the records and scattered , perhaps vanish altogether ? |
| 2 | You have almost certainly known for quite some while that one cycle is coming to a close and that it would be foolish even to attempt to defy the winds of change . |
| 3 | And I also noticed this week that nine specialist hospitals in London are now also under threat . |
| 4 | Khalid Fakhro , director of the Marine Emergency Mutual Aid Centre in Bahrain , told New Scientist this week that 2000 barrels of oil ( half previous estimates ) has been flowing from a war-damaged platform in the Iranian Nowruz field every day since the end of January . |
| 5 | Another mistake that one student made with this particular problem was to suppose that the opening sentence was itself a question , inviting a general disquisition on the legal nature of an offer . |
| 6 | It was for this reason that one woman diarist writing during World War II was convinced that the introduction of a national health service would mean more to women than to men . |
| 7 | It was during this time that two passengers attempted suicide , one with a syringe and tranquillizers , another by slashing his wrists and jumping into the sea ; both survived . |
| 8 | It was during this time that two kinds of tenure began to dominate in Britain , owner-occupation and local authority tenancy . |
| 9 | However , Eliot was , and it is in this context that Four Quartets should be seen . |
| 10 | Is not the Minister aware that it has been known for some time that four times as many women as men suffer the chronic pain that comes from the loss of movement in and the fracture of hip joints ? |
| 11 | Another target that one designer is pursuing is ‘ screen animation in geometry as a means of getting children to say what they see ’ . |
| 12 | The rebels held their fire till the dragoons were within ten yards [ 9 m ] of them , then replied with ‘ a very sharp , popping kind ’ of volley which did such execution that one bystander ‘ saw daylight through them in several places ’ . |
| 13 | Energy was the release of such power that 2.2 pounds weight of the material , plutonium , could in the event of complete fission produce violent strength in the muscle of physics that was equivalent to the detonation of 20,000 tons of conventional explosive . |
| 14 | They signal to each other that one turn has come to an end and another should begin . |
| 15 | Back to that news that five people have been killed and another five seriously injured in a motorway pile-up . |
| 16 | Indeed there is a sense in which it is positively desirable to act out of self-interest in offering support to a relative , since if the donor also benefits , there is less chance that one party will become over-dependent upon the other . |
| 17 | He welcomed the opportunity to move to a British company and he felt in any case that eight years was probably long enough at the top of any major company . |
| 18 | At 1988/89 rates ( Home Office , 1990b , p. 110 ) , it cost on average £288 per week to keep an offender in custody , compared with £19 per week to supervise an offender on probation ; yet the Home Office acknowledge : ‘ It is hard to show any effect that one type of sentence is more likely than any other to reduce the likelihood of reoffending , which is high for all ’ ( p. 7 ) . |
| 19 | On the same day that The Boomtown Rats play Leixlip Castle in Dublin to 14,000 people , that Bob Geldof sweeps out on stage screaming ‘ Who 's won ? ’ referring to the battle with Dublin eldermen for the right to play ; the same day that 30 people are hurt and Geldof refers to Ireland as a ‘ banana republic ’ and a ‘ despicable nation ’ , U2 appear at the Garden Of Eden club in Tullermeny . |
| 20 | John Bray , senior brand manager for Nestlé Foodservice , which supplies both dried and frozen pasta , is keen to dispel any thought that one type of pasta is better or worse than another . |
| 21 | It is probable that one can not properly speak of such a thing as a career as a mufti in the same sense that one can of a career as a muderris or a kadi ; but to the degree that there does appear to have been some hierarchical gradation of muftiliks , it is worth emphasizing that these did not lead to the office of the Mufti , which rather , from the sixteenth century on , was approached by the route of the medreses , mevleviyet kadiliks and kazaskerliks . |
| 22 | It was announced at the same time that two others had been executed in the Sumatran town of Medan in October 1989 . |