Example sentences of "in the [noun] [pron] [verb] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Penny , we do not look upon divorce and remarriage in that way , ’ said Mark sternly , but — Sophia thought rather in the tone he used when Faustina jumped on to the table and began licking the butter dish . |
| 2 | I like to see a career structure in the company I work for |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd seen so many terrible pictures on TV and when we arrived in the country I wondered if it was all true . |
| 4 | Wölflinn wrote Renaissance and Baroque in 1888 , which in the preface he described as follows : |
| 5 | It was not Ramsay 's place to rebuke them , and Sir Archibald did not do so — for in the circumstances it looked as though no harm was done . |
| 6 | Although the Schlieffen Plan , if faultlessly executed , might just have brought about the fall of France , in the event it failed because Moltke depleted , rather than strengthened , his right flank , and because , at the crucial moment , he lost his nerve . |
| 7 | Southwell Southwell faces Mansfield which rather gets us in the stick you see because we have to come here for Benefit Office interviews and things like that but you got to Mansfield |
| 8 | She also shows her bias for Bassanio in the music she plays when he is choosing the caskets . |
| 9 | In the past they worked as long as they were able : it was illness rather than age as such which placed them in need . |
| 10 | Witnessing is as much about showing people Christianity in the way we live as it is about explaining Christianity by the things that we say . |
| 11 | Learning theory says that people behave in the way they do because of their past learning experiences , and that learning can be organised and planned to produce and eliminate particular behaviours . |
| 12 | Males continue to court in the way they do because if a male were to stop producing part of the species ' typical display , females would not mate with him . |
| 13 | It would be difficult to add it in the way you suggest since it would have to be poured . ’ |
| 14 | Its significance in 1422 lay in the way it questioned whether birth was a sufficient warrant for high military office , or whether the responsibilities of leadership in war time should only be accorded ( and it was the king who accorded them ) to those whose experience and reputation in military affairs merited them . |
| 15 | The progress of life unfolded in the way it did because God had imposed a preordained sequence of developmental stages through which organisms must ascend towards the human form . |
| 16 | In the end we won because I went to the state property register to get her details . |
| 17 | Whatever happened to my son in that church , and I do n't pretend to understand it , in the end he died because of it . |
| 18 | Ellis was the first person to enforce them with determination , but in the end he failed because there were no corresponding regulations in the districts bordering Kurunagala , and because the rules could not be enforced without the very energetic supervision which was lacking after his departure . |
| 19 | I even joined a group for divorced men but in the end I left because it fed my negativity instead of alleviating it . |
| 20 | He says that in the end it looks as though the TI offer may be taken up . |
| 21 | Mm sometimes in the week she goes as well . |
| 22 | Yeah I do Stefan , I mean i it 's very vigorous int it , when it gets established and it grows very upright as well and of course it 's deciduous erm some people call it a shrub , some people call it a tree but I , I will think that er Mrs is doing the right thing by cutting it back , especially if it 's a small garden , it would make a better bush in the garden I think if she does that and the these little white flowers really in are nice are n't they ? |
| 23 | No one would have constructed them in the form they have if he had not known that at all costs he must , when it comes to experimental predictions , obtain those same results which the statistically interpreted Schrödinger equation seems to produce so economically and naturally . |
| 24 | In the methods I described as essentialist , the underlying assumptions are qualitative rather than quantitative . |
| 25 | In the morning she wondered if her inspection of the villa 's water-works might not have been part of a dream and looked carefully to confirm that the letter to Signora Kettering was still in her handbag . |
| 26 | I said anyway I want I want to get home to June in the morning I said cos me and June are going shopping . |
| 27 | mm , mm but er in the morning I surprise because when I knock your door and I got up early , I got up at half past six cos |
| 28 | ‘ Go and speak to Saint Julien — the big bastard in the corner who looks as though he would kill his own grandmother for a couple of francs . |
| 29 | Gentleman in the audience who looks as though he has n't got much on top , what did you wan na say ? |
| 30 | Once in the car-park I waited while the men unloaded the coffin . |