Example sentences of "in [noun pl] that [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the epidemic of 1854 Dr Snow uncovered the following facts out of 134 deaths from cholera during the first four weeks , 115 of the fatal cases occurred in houses supplied by the Southwark and Vauxhall Company , only 14 in that of the Lambeth Company 's houses , and the remainder in houses that got their water from pump wells or direct from the river . |
| 2 | Two years ago , I went on holiday to the States and witnessed scenes in clubs that made me realize women were n't as inhibited as I 'd thought . |
| 3 | Personally , I find that I sometimes get new ideas while I am engaged in activities that have nothing to do with my research at all , such as gardening , painting in the house , or even shaving when I get up in the morning . |
| 4 | Pain and nausea swept over him in waves that left him hot and sticky and weak at the knees . |
| 5 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 6 | When not being a mother or supportive wife , she has taken on numerous appointments in areas that interest her . |
| 7 | There is a poison in potatoes that turns them green , which is very dangerous to pregnant women . |
| 8 | Outside , all the foremost mandarins of the court were already assembled in lines that reflected their rank . |
| 9 | We are soon informed of how his wealth is made public knowledge in lines that suggest his generosity with his riches could be extravagance ; an imprudent use and showing of wealth — and his wife — rather than a wise one : This noble marchaunt heeld a worthy hous For which he hadde alday so great repair For his largesse ( and for his wyf was fair ) That wonder is … |
| 10 | ‘ If an assassin were to dare to enter my kitchen , ’ Auguste announced in tones that made it clear that no villain would have the temerity , ‘ do you not think that poison would be his chosen means , rather than an arsenal of rifles hidden in a kitchen range ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ If you worry so much about things , Miss Mac , then why do you sell them at all ? ’ she asked in tones that knew there could be no answer . |
| 12 | Then Bjorn Again say ‘ thanks ’ in accents that make them sound like the chef out of The Muppet Show , and an Australian voice tells us to hurry up and spend our money on tickets for their next gig in Manchester , which , due to overwhelming demand , is happening next week . |
| 13 | ‘ Yes , and look at you now , ’ thought Philippa , ‘ woe betide anything in trousers that came your way , you filthy old hag . ’ |
| 14 | Natural selection will therefore favour adaptations in males that enable them to mate with more females ; but it will favour discrimination in females , if males vary in their quality as mates . |
| 15 | Just eat in quantities that satisfy you , and avoid putting on unnecessary weight by cutting down on sweet things like cakes , biscuits and sweet drinks . |
| 16 | And Kate kissed him back , caught up in feelings that had nothing to do with background or career or anything except pure sensation . |
| 17 | Darwinian evolutionism is an example of a theory that was adopted by middle-class thinkers because it portrayed Nature in terms that paralleled their preferred framework of society . |
| 18 | Consequently , cooperation was defined by the professionals in terms that allowed them , in the words of the community nurse , to ‘ intervene within the family and explore deficits in the parenting role ’ . |
| 19 | Tears become a signal to the male partner that the issue under discussion is one that should be taken seriously , and if he is sensitive to his partner 's needs he will respond swiftly and allow the woman to weep in ways that affirm her dignity . |
| 20 | Lévi-Strauss accepted the traditional role of anthropology to ‘ explain' the differences of alien cultures in ways that make them recognisable as the same ‘ underneath ’ . |
| 21 | The problems are formidable and they interlock in ways that make them more difficult to tackle . |
| 22 | It is time , it is thought , for English to organize itself in ways that make it more like a proper academic discipline , with clear procedures and goals . |
| 23 | So with the gradual release of information about Stalinism and the terrible losses of life in the labour camps , a whole generation of political activists lost their faith , not only in Russia , but in the hope that human beings can radically alter their society in ways that make it more equal and more just . |
| 24 | Often he acted in ways that made him seem like a child demanding to be looked after . |
| 25 | But those who read his work , and might potentially have taken up the challenges it provoked , generally modified the project in ways that made it unrecognizable . |
| 26 | Whereas in Chomskian grammar the basic approach is ‘ top-down ’ , with transformation rules sometimes applying in ways that require one to consider syntactic environments beyond the immediate focus of application , the picture in Montague grammar is simpler , in a way more congenial to our evolutionary picture . |
| 27 | A work such as Judith Weir 's A Night At The Chinese Opera ( 1987 ) plays with narrative continuity and frames of reference in ways that tie it much more closely to modern literary devices than to any musical antecedents ; Harrison Birtwhistle 's The Mask of Orpheus ( 1986 ) uses all the dramatic devices and timeshifts an opera can muster to tease out the contradictory bundle of myths around the Orpheus legend . |
| 28 | Most assemblies are , however , ‘ consociations ’ resulting from behaviours in which animals respond to each other 's presence in ways that establish their spacing in relation to one another and their occurrence in groups of certain age and sex composition . |
| 29 | In an organization , they may rarely come to the attention of a predominantly male management in ways that give them power and encouragement . |
| 30 | Moments of panic in the national efficiency debate often orchestrated by the new popular press — enabled medics to dramatically represent their new scientific concepts in ways that gained them intellectual hegemony and popular credibility . |