Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] that in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is surely a powerful confirmation of his underlying concern with tragedy throughout the whole of 1871 that in this period we find , again and again , lengthy drafts and preliminary studies for one part or other of BT , but no other sizeable fragments ascribable to a " large " book " about Greece " and falling outside the actual book 's eventual range . |
| 2 | It was for reasons such as these that in June 1981 we used the educational press to invite schools , colleges , and teachers to contact us if they had ‘ undertaken self-evaluation , self-assessment , self-monitoring or curriculum review ’ . |
| 3 | Doris will account for all that in the script and he 'll fall into line the second he sees hard print . |
| 4 | This is that area of physical life which is associated with sickness and health ; an area wherein the interplay between the subconscious healing operations of the bodily functions , on the one hand , and the power of the human mind or will to help those functions on the other , would offer immense possibilities for medical practice if the practitioner knew for sure that in the mind of the patient there was the certain knowledge that successful self-help generated from faith in a fully believed-in ‘ god ’ could be achieved . |
| 5 | Archbishop Stratford maintained in 1341 that in March 1337 the king obtained the assent of parliament to go to war against Philip of France . |
| 6 | They are well known in the Weald of Kent and Sussex and around Poole harbour ; and one land-drainage contractor was of the opinion in 1986 that in his own county , Northamptonshire , there was scarcely a parish without areas which were effectively undrainable due to ochre . |
| 7 | It was obvious from this that in going into storms we were quite literally playing with fire . |
| 8 | We can see from this that in the technical sense most large and many small organisations can be described as bureaucracies . |
| 9 | It follows from this that in a recognition test subjects will find it extremely difficult to distinguish one of the early sentences in a passage from similar sentences which mean the same . |
| 10 | Whether we would be correct to conclude from this that in manic-depression mania was produced by a quasi-toxic suppression of the superego I do not know , but if would certainly accord well with Freud 's suggestion that in the manic interludes in depression we witness ‘ a magnificent festival of the ego , which might then once again feel satisfied with itself ’ . |
| 11 | It will be apparent from this that in the event of LCH 's liquidation the clearing members would rank not as members but as creditors or debtors . |
| 12 | Margaret Irwin reported in 1894 that in one Edinburgh firm the piece rate was 6¾d per 1000 for a man , 3d to 5d for a woman ; in another , men got 6½d , women 4½jd to 5d . |
| 13 | Postwar economic growth , especially in the past decade of celebration of free enterprise and markets , has generated a more or less universal acquisitiveness , and it is far from evident that in circumstances in which the desires which have been aroused can not be gratified , or their pursuit breeds disillusionment , socialism , historically grounded in the labour movement , does or can now provide a new direction . |
| 14 | The World Bank estimated in 1970 that in cities such as Bogota in Columbia , Mexico City , Madras and Ahmadabad in India , and Nairobi in Kenya , between a half and two-thirds of the households could not afford even a house of £300–£1500 — the cheapest that can be built with modern materials such as cement and fired bricks . |
| 15 | Thomas Law reported in 1896 that in one Lancashire town the local Council nominated nine men for election to eleven vacancies on the Board of Guardians and all nine were elected . |
| 16 | It was surely repugnant to commonsense that in this area of legal activity a local authority should be prosecuted by one of its tenants without first being given the opportunity by that tenant to remedy the consequences of a neglect to repair the dwelling that the tenant occupied . |
| 17 | She kept rabbits in a hutch in the back garden behind the rows of cabbages and the clump of rhubarb and did not mind at all that in winter she had to wash at night in a bowl set on a sheet of brown paper in front of the living room fire because there was no heater in the bathroom . |
| 18 | The faint silvery-white outline of his robe and his face were clearly discernible to her at all times , and so overpowering was the experience at first that in the early morning , as she poured out a cup of tea , she would pour a second cup and absent-mindedly walk towards the chair and say : ‘ Here 's a cup of tea for you , ’ and then jolt back to reality , shaking her head : ‘ Agh , I must be mad ! |
| 19 | The insurers also sought to distinguish Lawrence by contending that in that case the student 's money had not passed to the taxi driver and that the student had not conferred on the taxi driver the rights of an owner . |
| 20 | Rugby lead 16–10 with less than a minute to go but a try under the posts brought a defeat by 17–16 that in David Ray 's words ‘ … did not seem to matter ’ . |