Example sentences of "[that] [noun] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 2 | The most obvious of these was that mergers occurred in waves and affected all industries . |
| 3 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 4 | It 's true that this was not the only experience of ridicule that Ian faced in childhood . |
| 5 | Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series . |
| 6 | There has always been the suspicion that values applied in cultural and moral spheres were far from impartial . |
| 7 | While they acknowledge that the data on their first two questions , as to whether sign languages are understood by foreigners , were mostly self-reports , they conclude that signs used in foreign countries , or even in different parts of the same country , are largely unintelligible in connected discourse . |
| 8 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 9 | Th there is erm a study going on to do with something called the British National Corpus which I do n't quite know what that 's about but they they want er samples of the sort of things that lecturers do in lecture theatres . |
| 10 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 11 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 12 | If Parliament had meant to say that any distribution or publication should suffice , it could very easily have said so ; the courts are bound to make sense of the words that Parliament has in fact used . |
| 13 | Earlier we spoke of the selective interests that disciplines take in the world . |
| 14 | It is certainly true that states have in the past used methods and means of warfare not outlawed by any specific prohibition although running counter to general principles , and they have sought to justify this by reference either to the principle of reprisal or that of military effectiveness . |
| 15 | It is small wonder that Keynesians stood in perplexed amazement when they tried to relate the new classical theory of unemployment to the unemployment rates which were being experienced in the late 1970s . |
| 16 | Analysing your opening to me you were saying that there 's expert evidence that solicitors instructed in the purchase of a property must ask about financial arrangements and advise about them . |
| 17 | Most readers will probably recall being explicitly taught the concept of the antonym at school ( I seem to recall that antonyms figured in the late , unlamented 11 + exam ) . |
| 18 | The exception is , of course , in the pronouncement that shareholders have in effect surrendered their power to professional management , a pronouncement which does not so much face the central question of the rights of ownership as to try to pass it by . |
| 19 | This is approved on the understanding that RVA works in closer partnership with Christian Aid . |
| 20 | Though many people find sanserif faces attractive , almost every experiment suggests that text set in them is harder to read than serif faces . |
| 21 | The view has been expressed in some quarters that experience gained in implementation of the First Directive would be very valuable in carrying out detailed work on the Second . |
| 22 | There is plenty of evidence , too , that orangs kept in cramped solitary confinement become not only bored but mentally sick . |
| 23 | Where delays occurred , the chances of an inventory being incomplete were obviously increased ; it has been noticed , for instance , that bequests mentioned in wills are sometimes missing from the inventory . |
| 24 | Mr Bell said that contract printing in the UK had been ‘ an absolute disaster ’ . |
| 25 | Police warned that tablets stolen in a burglary at a house in Harford Street , Middlesbrough , could be harmful if taken in quantity . |
| 26 | The general consensous is that Kelly playing in the right back birth , instead of his normal striker role , had a brilliant game outshining everyone . |
| 27 | The Earth , in fact , has enormous ‘ sinks ’ for both oxygen and carbon , and it is when these become full that excesses accumulate in the atmosphere . |
| 28 | Were these the woods , I wondered , that Kingsley had in mind when he wrote of Tom 's escape from Ellie 's little white bedroom ? |
| 29 | There is a curious sense in which the no-holds-barred style that Nizan adopted in this series of five articles , the last he ever wrote for Ce Soir , marked a return to the sectarian , aggressive , uncompromising Nizan of 1932 . |
| 30 | The ironic delight that Nizan displayed in presenting an extremist image of himself , whether it be as the arch-conservative , staunch defender of private property and the Church , or as the committed Bolshevik , reached its climax in late 1925 and early 1926 . |