Example sentences of "that [adj] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite publicity about their strict code of conduct , it was obvious that the rules had been broken because when the time came for the first troupe to go home , John was astounded to learn that eight out of the sixteen had married during the run and intended to remain behind and every one of the other eight was engaged . |
| 2 | The pattern of shareholding in companies is changing rapidly , with a declining role for individuals , but even so , Scott has shown ( 1985 , p. 77 ) that 43 out of the top 250 British firms are still controlled through personal shareholding . |
| 3 | Figures are hard to come by , but the recent report Trends in public library selection policies notes that 12 out of the 32 libraries surveyed kept ‘ some ’ information about allocations for stock revision ( suggesting that the remainder did not have any formal programmes of revision ) . |
| 4 | They claimed that 133 out of the 225 MPs had signed the petition , which cited 24 cases of alleged corruption and nepotism . |
| 5 | The second problem was the influx of men trying to enter the ministry by the end of the century ; if we look at ministers actively engaged in church work in 1901 we see that three out of every ten Primitive Methodists , four out of every ten Wesleyans , five out of every ten Congregationalists and seven out of every ten Baptists had entered the ministry in the 1890s . |
| 6 | His reasons are unclear , though he did say that three out of the recently rescued ‘ Bangkok Six ’ orang-utans ( all weak and traumatised babies ) had died at the Tanjung Puting centre . |
| 7 | The survey also found that 17 out of the 23 airlines capitalise interest on advance payments for aircraft being acquired . |
| 8 | This word is ‘ Readers ’ , which seems to indicate by my reckoning that 5 out of every 6 letters written on women players are sent to readers who are Steffi Graf fans . |
| 9 | My right hon. Friend has rightly ensured that 80 out of every 100 additional officers provided will go straight back on the beat , in Dartford and elsewhere . |
| 10 | The council 's survey shows that 50 out of the 340 double and single decker buses in the fleets of County Durham 's six major operators are more than 15 years old . |
| 11 | During a fortnight-long project , 6,000 volunteers found that 13 out of the 16 types of litter counted showed an increase on previous years . |
| 12 | Sir : As a Tuscan expatriate in Britain , I feel duty bound to point out that five out of the eight Italians included in the '50 mastersingers of Europe' were from Tuscany : Dante , Michelangelo , Leonardo , Machiavelli and Galileo . |
| 13 | ‘ Corked ’ wine has a powerful pong , rather like musty , mouldy walnuts , and current estimates hold that two out of every 100 bottles are affected . |
| 14 | It is remarkable that two out of the three patients here described are children under the age of 10 years whose grievous sufferings commenced almost with their birth and would in all probability have continued to their death had not this infirmary been established . ’ |
| 15 | and can you make it so that two out of the three can deal with it . |
| 16 | But is may not be an accident that two out of the last three large , completed bids have ended up as tender offers , not full-scale takeovers . |
| 17 | May I encourage him by telling him that the Chief Constable 's view is that four out of every five planned terrorist incidents in Northern Ireland are thwarted before they take place ? |
| 18 | There was n't a sound , yet she was convinced that close by in the darkness someone lay in wait . |