Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] in [noun sg] the " in BNC.

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1 You can also imagine a horizontal line bisecting the design , so that in effect the picture can be divided into four quarters , all exactly the same .
2 Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands .
3 Exeter had been a committed Lancastrian who had suffered forfeiture of his estates to the crown , so that in effect the endowment of the Greys was being made out of the royal lands .
4 No room was left for the sort of ‘ campaigning ’ witnessed on the campuses , so that in future the procedures could go ahead smoothly under the party 's oversight .
5 Historically governments gave firms very generous allowances and permitted them to offset the costs of new capital equipment against profits , so that in practice the total revenue from corporation tax has been relatively low as a share of all revenue .
6 Natural selection saw to it that these were the ones to survive so that in time the orang became substantially smaller .
7 It had a deep brim which widened towards the chin so that in profile the face would be hidden , and before she put it on Sarah brushed her unruly hair until it looked smooth , then she parted it in the middle and drew it tightly back .
8 Now it is clear that we do sometimes have alternative ways of determining guilt and innocence to our own satisfaction and it therefore makes sense to think of a fair trial as a trial designed to produce the correct verdict where correctness is assessable by some other objective standards , but in many cases this is not so and in practice the correct verdict is simply the one which is reached after a fair trial .
9 To the extent that the Home Secretary suggested that the Act did not involve any extension of the Government 's powers , this could be only because in practice the guidelines were being exceeded for , as has been pointed out subsequently , the phrase ‘ national security ’ is not confined to major subversion or espionage ( Lloyd , 1987 ) .
10 The British liked to think their system was different from the others , but it is not easy , in examining the literature , to discover exactly where in practice the difference lay .
11 It was just that in camp the link between sex and behaviour was often cruder and more obvious than in ordinary life .
12 These push water backwards and in consequence the lancelet moves forward .
13 It is no defence that he acted reasonably if in fact the goods are not reasonably fit for their purpose .
14 The call to forgiveness is a priority which needs constant attention , partly because in marriage the closer you get to each other the greater will be the likelihood of hurt .
15 Mayhew … ) were concerned to describe accurately and in detail the social conditions of their society , particularly of the more disadvantaged sections , but their interest in these matters was never a disinterested academic one .
16 Now whether in fact the church meeting would come to a different conclusion from us I 've no means of knowing but probably not because most of you know something about the church that you 're working with .
17 Having experienced the agony of crotch rot the previous winter in the Pigsty , I felt better for taking a daily douche , even if in winter the freezing water left everything numb for an hour or so .
18 Compared with the quiet control ( Group K ) , there was an increased c-jun expression in both the ‘ behaving ’ groups M and N , but the increase was much more marked in the learning group ( M ) than in the group which is merely repeating an already learned behaviour ( N ) , even though in fact the chicks of Group N are eating the food grains even more avidly that those of Group M.
19 Because the communities are so stable in relation to a centre which is largely in their imagination , it matters little whether in fact the real centre is itself actually in turmoil .
20 Four fifty million , sorry , four fifty million erm between programme re-orientation and other factors , was an apportionment we made er back in the er first part of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revised that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the costs increased as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest .
21 Four fifty million , erm between programme re-orientation and other factors was an apportionment we made back in the er first half of nineteen ninety three and in the light of later information I think we would revise that now erm we are still negotiating with the contractors on the revised contract price and we do not have definitive costs yet but in fact the cost increase as a result of the rescheduling of the programme directly should be quite modest .
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