Example sentences of "and that in " in BNC.

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1 We are told that these last four words are Rimbaud 's and the Surrealist André Breton 's , and that in 1968 they were a slogan of the protesting Sorbonne students .
2 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 .
3 Then she walked with me to a bus stop — I had to take one step every two minutes , and that in slow motion — waited with me , put me on the right bus and reminded the conductor where to let me out .
4 ‘ Tesco 's , with its recent price promotion , has highlighted the price difference between home consumption and that in a pub , ’ state the report .
5 In fairness , too , one has to admit that Marxism is not monolithic , and that in literary and cultural criticism it provides many possible positions .
6 For most British people , certainly , living standards showed some absolute overall improvement since 1979 ; but there was also a popular sense that the quality of life had degenerated , and that in particular violent crime had risen sharply .
7 He thought that there was no barrier and that in time he could have done more for them .
8 He ‘ hoped that the strategic assumption that it was vital to us to keep open the Mediterranean and that in fact we could , should be re-examined .
9 The facts that much farmed land falls short of its potential and that in large areas of Africa population levels are low , do not alter the fact that innovators in the tradition of Chipimbi continue to succeed in achieving important increases in productivity .
10 Normally I like looking through books — you know , if they got nice pictures and that in them , but I du n no — I just ai n't very interested at the moment .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 And that in turn was crowned , incongruously , by a mop of unruly brown curls , giving him the appearance of an inflated schoolboy — Billy Bunter , in fact .
14 The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult .
15 What really matters is not how the horse won , but that he did win , and that in doing so he ended his racecourse career displaying that sparkling but short-lived turn of foot for which he will long be remembered .
16 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 .
17 If she was not , then she must have been almost the only member of Edinburgh political society who managed to know nothing about it — and that in itself would be a comment on her political awareness .
18 The functioning of these enzymes depends on their amino acid sequence , and that in turn depends on base sequence in DNA , which is the result of many millions of years of natural selection .
19 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 .
20 The Warwickshire jurors , on being asked on what authority they had returned that ten townships ‘ with their woods , wastes and fields ’ had been afforested by King John , and that in 1154 there had been no royal forest in their county , replied that they knew by what their ancestors had related and by the common talk of the country .
21 He boldly asserted that while courses with these characteristics remained goals to be aimed for , there was genuine value in shorter courses for people of all backgrounds in a wide range of subjects — and that in offering such courses the WEA was furthering the spread of an educated democracy .
22 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 .
23 To one trained in the more-than-circumspect world of Ultra at Bletchley , the press and public expectation of immediate news and information , not just about military successes and casualties , but even about questions of tactics — and that in advance of the action — seemed incomprehensible .
24 Thirdly , he reaffirmed that it was essential to strengthen the rule of law within the Community and that in order to achieve a greater degree of enforcement and implementation of European rules , the European Court of Justice should be given the power to fine member states for failing to comply with court judgements .
25 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 .
26 Both insist that language about God admits of no connection with ‘ ordinary ’ language , and that in terms of ‘ ordinary ’ language it is meaningless .
27 Yet one may imagine that the dinner-party takes place in a large house , and that in another room the ladies are engaged in their own conversations .
28 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 .
29 More probable , however , is that Leapor 's female friendships followed the pattern most usual in her time , and that in Bridget Freemantle , Mary Leapor had simply found ’ … a partner in sensibility , a confidante in literature . ’
30 The point is that an orderly community can exist only if it shares many practices , and that in all modern pluralistic societies a great measure of toleration of vastly differing outlooks is made possible by the fact that many of them enable the vast majority of the population to accept common standards of conduct .
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