Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] that [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fabia saw no point in butting in to comment that she had in fact come very close to doing that very thing , and after a few moments ' pause Ven went on , ‘ I knew I 'd bruised your pride , but that had been necessary when my desire for you had threatened to blot out reason . |
| 2 | This is a life so transformed that it stands in utter contrast to the life which comes naturally to us as human beings . |
| 3 | After that we can only hope that it goes in our favour because we know it wo n't be easy . ’ |
| 4 | However , Brenda 's turn is so constructed that it starts in London English with a statement about what happened , and switches to Creole at " cause " ( which could be London English or Creole ) — precisely the point where she begins her explanation of why she acted in this way . |
| 5 | Whilst I would apply that proposition completely in most cases , and particularly in cases which affect life , liberty or property , I do not think that it applies in all cases . |
| 6 | They did not contest that they participated in the crime ring , but said they had no choice because of pressure from Chinese secret societies . |
| 7 | The Prime Minister answered a question that I put to him earlier this year by referring to the fact that he did not believe that I live in the real world . |
| 8 | He may not believe that it applies in his particular case . |
| 9 | But just because adults have the right to choose , it does not follow that they have in fact exercised that right . |
| 10 | It does not follow that they understand in any sense that the bottom bricks of a tower support the top ones — although this is something which a leaping animal living in a jungle or an untidy house may have to learn . |
| 11 | He was better known as a spirited champion of atheism , so many people do not realize that he believed in God until he was eighteen . |
| 12 | Nothing personal , Bill , but just remember that I work in this town , and for me to work here then I need doors opening up for me . |
| 13 | It is clear that Wagner became genuinely fond of Nietzsche , but for all the young professor 's admiration of him as a person , Wagner — it is a notorious fact — was a supremely egocentric man ; it is easily inferred that he glimpsed in Nietzsche a means of gaining respectability in hitherto hostile academic circles , and that it was this glimpse , as much as anything , that encouraged his fond feelings to grow . |
| 14 | The fact that the accused 's wife spent money on their flat does not mean that he assisted in the disposal of money stolen by the wife : Coleman [ 1986 ] Crim LR 56 . |
| 15 | The family doctor advised them to try a well-known rehabilitation unit , not realizing that it specialized in orthopaedic rather than neurological cases . |
| 16 | I have already mentioned that I worked in Derbyshire . |
| 17 | Somewhere in this range , too , are those coincidences that give us an eerie spine-tingling feeling , like dreaming of a particular person for the first time in decades , then waking up to find that they died in the night . |
| 18 | He was always careful to have no vestige of drug cargoes on board when entering port and openly admitted that he dealt in drugs , always doing business in the safety of international waters . |
| 19 | Mr Patten also said that he believed in the validity of the present system for predicting what housing needs will be . |
| 20 | Mary Leapor also knows that she lives in a dirty world . |
| 21 | The constabulary was hard at work driving them out again and giving out cautions that whoever took in any of the evicted would himself be turned out . |
| 22 | They take at face value cases such as this one involving the policewomen , and they really believe that they live in a society that has lost all its civilised values . |
| 23 | There are so many colourful characters within the jazz spectrum and as a form it really demands that you get in touch with your own personal self ; if you do n't have your own sound in jazz then basically it 's nothing . |
| 24 | Salvadorean women often remark that they live in a " matriarchal society " , by which they mean they must support their children single-handed . |
| 25 | But it was hard to pick out faces that he knew in the swaying mass of heads . |
| 26 | Whether the life sentence is regarded as a sufficient denunciation in society depends on the public 's perception of what life imprisonment means : if it is widely believed that it results in an average of nine years ' imprisonment , the effect will be somewhat blunted . |
| 27 | " I did n't know that you worked in the Biology Department . |
| 28 | Do n't forget that anything laid in sand always needs a solid edging . |
| 29 | Police had earlier revealed that he died in similar circumstances to Mr Walker . |
| 30 | In order to facilitate a quick arrest under difficult circumstances — ‘ the crowd was jeering and becoming unpleasantly restive ’ — Robert Mark then confesses that he indulged in a little police brutality , by using his strictly non-regulation rubber truncheon to give the offender ‘ a hefty whack on the shin' which apparently broke his leg . |