Example sentences of "that it [verb] [adj] [num] " in BNC.

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1 The Iraqi government had informed the UN that same evening that it accepted all 12 UN resolutions without conditions .
2 Despite the fact that it kills 8 000 men each year — four times as many people as die from cervical cancer — it is under-recognised and under-researched .
3 Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m .
4 A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters .
5 How long he survived his restoration is not certainly known for Northumbrian regnal tradition retained no memory of Eardwulf 's second reign , but there is a possibility that it lasted some three or four years ( see below , p. 196 ) .
6 One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre .
7 We have already seen that it leaves unexplained one prominent feature of judicial practice — the attitude judges take toward statutes and precedents in hard cases — except on the awkward hypothesis that this practice is designed to deceive the public , in which case the public has not consented to it .
8 The identification of the so-called Jurassic Way was always based on the very flimsy evidence that it linked some six or seven Iron Age sites .
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