Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun pl] that [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so immersed in my thoughts that it was several seconds before I realised that the sound dinning in my ears was the telephone ringing . |
| 2 | But the princesses will be my sisters-in-law — and I can feel it in my bones that we shall just not take to each other at all ! |
| 3 | Indeed , on Saturday afternoon , as he had relaxed with his team-mates at their hotel hideaway he had confided : ‘ I 'm due to score , I want to score , I feel it in my bones that I will score . ’ |
| 4 | She has always been kindness itself to me , but I have a feeling in my bones that she would not regard me as a wholly reliable supporter . |
| 5 | I find it difficult in my notes that they 're all so mathematical , that you just read through lines and lines of equations and there 's very few sentences in between to explain what 's going on . |
| 6 | And I have pointed out in my papers that you must bear in mind perhaps that er quite a number of Rich er quite a number of the districts in North Yorkshire are of county scale in their sheer size and that therefore it is not inappropriate that at that level that the policies would be refined . |
| 7 | Erm you 'll see sir in my submissions that I 've proposed a rewording of criterion three so that the Greater York new settlement should be located as close to the outer boundary of the as of the York greenbelt as is consistent with greenbelt policy . |
| 8 | ‘ The Careers Advisory Service is available to provide a comprehensive vocational guidance service to students and postgraduates on campus at whatever stage in their studies that they feel the need ’ he said . |
| 9 | Members were so kind in their congratulations that they will want to know what happened when I went to the Palace on February 7th to receive the M.B.E . |
| 10 | This once powerful man was so implanted in their lives that they had never really left Great Meadow , in spite of jobs and marriages and children and houses of their own in Dublin and London . |
| 11 | ‘ Women in the industry are not dissatisfied with such work ’ asserts Blauner , without giving his evidence for this statement : ‘ Work does not have the central importance and meaning in their lives that it does for men , since their most important roles are those of wives and mothers ’ . |
| 12 | They have such confidence in their defences that they make no attempt whatsoever to hide themselves . |
| 13 | ‘ Peter Brooke should also , ’ he writes , ‘ persuade the Chairman and Chief Executive ( of Channel 4 ) that , even though it may cause them some embarrassment , it is in their interests that they commit themselves fully to telling the public the truth and to assisting the police and the Director of Public Prosecutions . ’ |
| 14 | A great proportion of our farmers , large and small , know in their hearts that they are on the wrong road , but have neither the wisdom nor the courage to strike out on radically new lines . |
| 15 | Only his eyes were small , and they were set so deeply in their orbits that you could not tell what colour they were . |
| 16 | The Evangelical movement , despite its minority status , cast its influence far more widely than the actual numbers of its adherents might suggest ; it is of especial interest to students of child rearing attitudes , in that its followers were so prolific in their writings that their beliefs ( or watered-down versions of their beliefs ) dominated both the advisory literature available to parents and the children 's own reading matter for upwards of two centuries . |
| 17 | She and Jeremy had been seeing each other fairly regularly , but he was an investment banker and they were both so hectically involved in their jobs that they 'd opted for casual , no-strings dating almost by mutual consent . |
| 18 | Ruth did not have to finish what she had begun to say ; she saw from the look in their eyes that they understood her . |
| 19 | There was nothing to cause an echo in the car , already full of engine and wind noise , so it was probably only in their minds that her voice seemed to fade in throbbing waves , as across a vast canyon . |
| 20 | They were entirely clear in their minds that one must not ‘ confuse ’ God with a human being . |
| 21 | He talked through the whole drama again with them , explaining the various problems their son had had , discussing the probable outcome of each of his injuries had he survived , and then , when there was no doubt left in their minds that he should have died , he gave them even more . |
| 22 | That is , how to give a child a knowledge of what has been accepted as right and what has been accepted as wrong , or , in other words , of good and evil ; and further , how this can be so well rooted in their minds that it produces in them an inclination to act automatically in accordance with what must be designated civilised behaviour . |
| 23 | As I have argued above , the doctrine of deterrence and the deployment of strategic nuclear weapons can only be justified by the acceptance that the superpowers are genuine in their protestations that they do not intend ever to use nuclear weapons , and that they seek disarmament . |
| 24 | Both Nicolae and Elena constantly emphasized in their speeches that they had sprung from the common people and therefore shared their hopes and sufferings . |
| 25 | She is the formal head of the Executive and it is , nominally , in her courts that her justice is administered . |
| 26 | She was so absorbed in her thoughts that she did n't hear the taxi pull up outside at all , nor the opening and closing of the kitchen door . |
| 27 | Her soft leather shoes made little sound on the stone steps and she was so lost in her thoughts that she did n't hear other footsteps coming as rapidly towards her . |
| 28 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 29 | She rarely thought about Ireland now — she had deliberately suppressed it , and usually it was only in her dreams that it rose unbidden to haunt her . |
| 30 | She had been so caught up in her memories that she had n't heard him approaching . |