Example sentences of "and that in the " in BNC.

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1 But now , on the basis of a number of well-documented opinion polls , W. Harvey Cox ( 1985 ) argues that the majority in the Republic of Ireland favouring reunification is barely two to one , and that in the island as a whole it is three to two .
2 Brynner 's life in America is better known : the movies , some outstanding , like The Magnificent Seven , many terrible ; the wives ; the lovers — Judy Garland , Marilyn Monroe , Marlene Dietrich , Joan Crawford ( a businesslike woman in love as in other affairs , making their encounter ‘ among the least erotic half hours ’ in Brynner 's life ) ; and above all the role that he created and that in the end devoured him , the King of Siam .
3 Then I noticed that right beside the checkpoint , in fact touching it , there stood a terrace of houses , and that in the front window of one of them stood a Christmas tree , with lights draped along its branches .
4 As it was , people felt left in the dark about what the weighty causes of such an unusual step might have been , and remained worried about the seriousness of the situation in the east and that in the Reich itself ‘ something is not right ’ , suggesting conflict in the leading positions within the Wehrmacht and dissatisfaction of the Führer with prominent figures at home , whose life-style did not match the gravity of the times .
5 It takes a moment to realise that it is not some pagan idol , but a head of Christ on the cross , that the spikes represent the crown of thorns and that in the wreckage of the ancient trunk a face has been carved .
6 I am sure that if we could have met , all estrangement would have vanished instantly ; but , having to rely on the written word ( and that in the cramped space of air-letters which took so long to come and go ) , and missing expression of face and tone of voice , to which we were both very sensitive , we kept up our guard for a time .
7 The lower portions of the inclined planes descend below the level of the water in the tail bays , and as the tanks on the downward run move down into the water until there is parity of level between the water in the tank and that in the bay , dock gates are unnecessary in these lower channels .
8 This reading of silences depends on the argument that the companionate ideal of marriage developed first among the privileged classes , and that in the eighteenth century lower class women could expect little affection in marriage .
9 3 This agreement is on the assumption that you are the owner of the materials , and that in the event of your employing a third person or persons to provide part or the whole of the materials , that the copyright of those materials have been assigned to you .
10 We have to recognize that education must satisfy the needs of its pupils ( a highly un-Platonic idea ) , and that in the case of some children , not necessarily the least able , their needs will be best met by allowing the balance to tip in the direction of the practical .
11 Among the reasons given for this conclusion were that the system imposes long delays in obtaining foreign exchange for essential imports , thus putting a brake on exports ; that the rate of exchange was not adjusted sufficiently ; and that in the absence of retention rights the exporters had lost their motivation for exporting .
12 Tradition , with her thousand tongues , said this barrow was the tomb of a Cornish King or Roman General , the Arch Druids of the day , an Irish Saint etc ; and , moreover , that vast treasures lay burried with the body and that in the early part of the century a golden boat had been found concealed below its surface .
13 None the less , it is broadly speaking true that the Church had exalted the monarch in the tenth century , and abased him in the twelfth ; that the Church had taught obedience to him in the tenth century when ancient rights of resistance to a king who broke his subjects ' rights and liberties still flourished ; and that in the twelfth century Church and people exchanged ideas about the bases for the right of resistance .
14 James decided to concentrate his efforts on subduing Londonderry , but in the end had to ride back , damp and disappointed , to Dublin , where , on 26 April , as he wrote in his memoirs , ‘ he found the arms not arrived from Cork , Kinsale or Waterford ; and that in the arsenal nothing had been done for preparing of tools ’ .
15 Dull , physically unattractive and solidly Germanic , the new king was hardly the sovereign to arouse his subjects ' patriotic enthusiasm , and that in the opening years of his reign no invasion attempt occurred was due largely to his chief minister , the all-powerful Sir Robert Walpole .
16 If it is argued that sarvodaya is an unattainable ideal , and that in the end one may have to settle for the happiness or good of 51 per cent , it could be stated in reply , that it is infinitely better to strive for sarvodaya and fail to realize it , than to start out with a limited objective and attain it at the expense of an unfortunate minority .
17 I said that one day we should be back , and that in the meantime our affection for the people of Burma would not fail .
18 Later , I asked myself whether in my extremity I , the helpless , had been seeking , as the hymn said , the help of God , and that in the act of seeking it , I had been granted it ( he who seeks God , said Pascal , has already found him ) ; or whether this spontaneous welling-up of emotion from the depths of my being was no more than the expression of a statement to myself .
19 The Court dismissed these claims on the ground that the right of individuals to become claimants in international law is recognised only when approved by specific treaty , and that in the Peace Treaty Japan had waived all claims of Japan or its nationals arising out of the war .
20 Some knowing souls disagree with the national selectors ' assessment in reckoning that Watt is too tall for a prop and that in the 1990 District Championship he was the outstanding ball-winner at the front of the line-out .
21 The assumption is that there is only one possible explanation of our saying this : namely , that we believe that the man 's utterance is the result of encoding something that exists at a pre-linguistic level , namely a thought , and that in the case of the parrot there is nothing at this level .
22 Nor are we told that , in 1981 , only eleven individuals in every thousand of the population were aged 85 or more , and that in the year 200 1 , their number will have only increased to seventeen per thousand .
23 By the Submission of the Clergy of 1532 , convocation surrendered its position as an independent legislative body for the church , and agreed both that all existing canons should be reviewed by a royal commission composed of both lay and clerical members and that in the future ecclesiastical laws would be subject to royal assent .
24 Finally , with respect to language issues , a variety of debates are still in progress and it is premature to draw firm conclusions ; however , there is some evidence to suggest that bilingualism may actually enhance educational performance ( Houlton , 1986 ) , that in the case of Afro-Caribbean pupils there may well be ‘ dialect interference ’ , although it is clear too that some of the problems here may derive from the negative attitudes of teachers towards Creole ( Edwards , 1979 ) , and that in the case of some Bangladeshi pupils lack of familiarity with English may be an obstacle to academic achievement ( House of Commons Home Affairs Committee , 1986 ) .
25 These rules stated that the economic world was Keynesian — equally in the sense that Keynes had explained the fundamental laws of economic motion and that in the process he had provided the prescriptions which would render high unemployment and stagnation as things of the past [ Posner , 1978 ] .
26 I am convinced by recent research findings in America and Britain that social work practice can either foster a sense of permanence or detract from it , and that in the past our treating permanent substitute families as if they were temporary has been a cause of insecurity .
27 There are some similarities between this situation and that in the late nineteenth century , when infections were random and where no treatment was available .
28 At Great Casterton I had suddenly discovered that this process held a hidden danger and that in the future this had to be avoided at all costs .
29 His argument was that aggregate demand could best be stimulated through fiscal expansion , and that in the prevailing conditions most of the increase in national income would feed through into output and therefore employment rather than inflation .
30 I knew that Anna had a lot of adjusting to do , and that in the orphanage many children had n't had beds . ’
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