Example sentences of "that in [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Mr Hull made it plain that he was not qualified to give an opinion about the painting 's authorship , the plaintiff 's employee must have realised that in proceeding with the purchase he was relying on his own skill and judgment . |
| 2 | Furthermore , it is in my view , that in writing this letter , the Chief Whip seriously abuses the power of his office when he actively tries to influence the electorate in Winchester and Alton . |
| 3 | We shall see that in writing this letter Anselm was concerned to safeguard the privileges of Canterbury against the claims of legatine authority ; but he was also inspired by a traditional respect for royal authority , and the common-sense view that in fact nothing could be accomplished without help from the king and his officials . |
| 4 | I must admit that in writing this paper I was motivated partly by irritation with Bekenstein , who , I felt , had misused my discovery of the increase of the area of the event horizon . |
| 5 | It may be that in revitalising or developing a talent such as painting , sculpture , macrame , embroidery , carpentry or toy-making you can actually start to earn a living out if it , particularly if what 's on offer has an original slant . |
| 6 | The Venerable David Silk , Archdeacon of Leicester , summing up the theological opposition , said that in ordaining women the Church of England would ‘ cease to be part of the Catholic , apostolic church and would be behaving as if it were the whole of Christianity , or a mere sect ’ . |
| 7 | He emphasised that in dismissing McCrory 's application for judicial review he was not imposing a ban on the wearing of poppies in prison . |
| 8 | I was appalled to note in Peter Jones 's report today of the Scottish Labour conference that in opposing the proposal to give the Scottish party greater autonomy the North Aberdeen MP , Bob Hughes , could warn delegates against the danger of ‘ being dragged down the back alleys of silly little constitutional issues ’ . |
| 9 | What she had not known was that in leaving home she would have to forfeit her four children . |
| 10 | Mr Hodgson explained that in buying up so many small firms , who really could no longer make ends meet , he , Howard Hodgson , could do better and cheaper funerals and that no one need worry about the cost any way , because if the deceased or whoever was taking the responsibility of next-of-kin possessed less than £300 , the DHSS would pay for the whole thing . |
| 11 | Now , in Dodds v Walker [ 1981 ] 2 All ER 609 , the House of Lords , no less , decided that in calculating the period of a month or a specified number of months that had elapsed after the occurrence of a specified event such as the giving of a notice or suchlike , the general rule was that the period ended on the corresponding date in the appropriate subsequent month , irrespective of whether some months were longer than others . |
| 12 | Amendment No. 55 is consequential and makes clear that in calculating the 12-year limit on membership of a board of management no account is taken of any previous service on a college council . |
| 13 | Similar provisions are made for CTT with this difference , that in calculating the value of the ‘ slice ‘ the property is to be deemed to produce income a such a rate as may from time to time be prescribed by the Treasury with the proviso that the value of the ’ slice ’ as so ascertained is never to exceed the value of the whole property . |
| 14 | I guess that in referring to that issue in the past few weeks we have been guilty of understating the size of the problem . |
| 15 | The next step that he foresaw would be that Mr Ramsay MacDonald comes to the King and asks for a Dissolution : indeed Mr Asquith believes that in accepting office Mr Ramsay MacDonald will very probably ask His Majesty to promise a Dissolution in the event of an early defeat of the Government in the House of Commons … |
| 16 | But the committee said that in accepting sponsorship of the restoration work carried out on his pond , Mr Gummer received a benefit he should have registered . |
| 17 | Section 1(4) stated that in deducing any relationship for the purposes of s1(3) any relationship by affinity is to be treated as a relationship by consanguinity , any relationship of the half-blood is to be treated as a relationship of the whole blood , the step-child of any person is to be treated as his child , and an illegitimate person is to be treated as a legitimate child of his mother and reputed father . |
| 18 | Mr Lamont told the other ministers that in speaking of fault lines he had merely meant that the British and German economies were out of phase . |
| 19 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |
| 20 | Whatever the truth , it is to be allowed that in speaking of them as effects in the ordinary way , to the extent we do , we may make use of a conception other than the one we have been examining . |
| 21 | Also , given what has been said , that a mental event is wholly within consciousness , it is also true that in speaking of the mental life of people , in a large sense of the term , we are speaking of more than mental events . |
| 22 | She knew that in speaking to Alix her voice would find its normal level , her mind would return to its normal tuning . |
| 23 | An additional factor is that in speaking English we vary in how rhythmically we speak : sometimes we speak very rhythmically ( this is typical of some styles of public speaking ) while at other times we speak arhythmically ( that is , without rhythm ) — for example , when we are hesitant or nervous . |
| 24 | Some people ( who usually turn out to do well in phonetic training ) find that in speaking to someone with a different accent their pronunciation gets progressively more like that of the person they are speaking to , like a chameleon adapting its colour to its environment . |
| 25 | ‘ I know that in thinking he 's worthy of you , you become worthy of him . ’ |
| 26 | It struck me that in calling me his heavenly brother he had gone straight to the heart of all our missionary endeavours . |
| 27 | All that memory can provide contributes already to our feeling that in calling this sensation ‘ pain ’ we are going on in the same way , following the rule . |
| 28 | If they fear that in calling for quiet , and seeking to ensure it where the subject declines to desist , they might themselves be the objects of violence , the offence is made out . |
| 29 | This suspension was justified by senior staff on the grounds that in producing grandiose schemes for the further development of the infrastructure it was neglecting the more important area of study skills and its pivotal role in articulating library resources with the curriculum . |
| 30 | On the other hand he referred to the claim of the appellants that the volume of documentation was very large and that if in all such cases a similar order was made there would be ‘ intolerable disruption ’ to an auditors ' business , the risk to the appellants that in producing the documents they might provide material to ground claims against themselves , and the suggestion that the order was not sufficiently specific in that it did not indicate to the appellants the areas in which the respondents considered that the appellants or others might be liable . |