Example sentences of "in [noun sg] [that] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of each day my pillow was so soaked in saliva that I had to wring it out on the floor . ’ |
| 2 | All the previous week Kidd had exhorted his forwards to concentrate on winning the battle up front and not simply live in hope that they could gain a few crumbs and hope their more skilful backs would steal a march on Shannon . |
| 3 | But they lived in hope that they might be so blessed . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , it is precisely at the point when the plaintiff can not succeed in a claim in negligence that he needs to have recourse to the rule in Rylands v. Fletcher . |
| 5 | He wrote to a friend : ‘ I feel it is only in weakness that I can glorify God . ’ |
| 6 | I would emphasize first , here speaking as one who has in the past given evidence on behalf of the Government , that the value of the scrutiny process is in part that it forces those with more direct power to consider their positions and their arguments carefully and to defend them in the face of public questioning by a Committee whose members may have long experience of the subject-matter involved . |
| 7 | Hewlett-Packard Co , for all the speculation Unix System Labs Inc put in play that it would win its adherence to Destiny , says it 's not going to adopt the SVR4.2 code . |
| 8 | After a seemingly interminable journey through what sounded like continual thunder , low walls of tangy wood rose up around her , and she realized in horror that she was being lowered into a coffin . |
| 9 | So , at the point when the meditator ends in prayer that he may always keep this passion in mind , he presents to himself an image which might easily coincide with that on a rood-screen , or painted panel . |
| 10 | It is by being aware of ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ in change that we are aware of time . |
| 11 | At the end of 1830 Birmingham abolitionists were so disappointed at the failure of progress towards immediate emancipation in parliament that they floated the idea of a national delegate conference with the London committee to bring stronger action . |
| 12 | Samuel Katwere , editor of The Star , the only independent English-language newspaper , was arrested on Nov. 6 , 1989 , and held without charge over an article published in the paper on Sept. 22 , 1989 , which alleged that the managing director of the government-owned Ugandan Commercial Bank was being paid huge amounts in compensation for the death of two children during the war which brought Museveni to power , and further called Museveni a liar for defending the banker against allegations raised in parliament that he was being paid more than he was worth . |
| 13 | It is essential to obtain confirmation in writing not only that services are available on or adjacent to the site , but in addition that they are adequate in capacity , and the cost of connection . |
| 14 | The investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales could be turned into a perfect television event , and they recommended in addition that he be made available for radio and television interviews . |
| 15 | The blank pages in my diary testify as much , and in addition that I was too apathetic to continue recording just how bored I was in the periods between my bouts of organising activity . |
| 16 | IT HAS BECOME one of the clichés of political debate that a concern for conservation is a new — and therefore probably transient — phenomenon and in addition that it is the hobby of an élite determined to fight against the inevitable overriding dictates of modern economic growth . |
| 17 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 18 | In a fine speech that preceded the president 's , Colin Powell , the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff , said in essence that it was wrong for servicemen to hold back respect for their commander-in-chief simply because of what he did long ago . |
| 19 | They mean in essence that he complies with the procedural expectations of the institution . |
| 20 | So eager were the Highlanders to be in action that they charged forward prematurely , to be swept by further fire from the hated artillery as well as by musket shots from the opposing infantry and from a detachment under the 18-year-old [ later Major-General ] James Wolfe , posted on the royal left flank , which took them in enfilade . |
| 21 | My whole understanding of the human world requires that in thought and imagination I am constantly shifting between and responding from different viewpoints , here or there , remembered or anticipated , individual or collective , my own or someone else 's , hypothetical , fictional , or simply indefinite ; it is only in action that I have to settle in a present viewpoint , whether personal ( ‘ I ’ ) or social ( ‘ We ’ ) . |
| 22 | Anecdotal evidence suggests that British companies , which in theory stand a good chance of winning public contracts , are finding in practice that they are being discouraged . |
| 23 | The Keynes effect and the real-balance effect were regarded as so weak and uncertain in practice that they rarely , if ever , featured in debates on economic policy matters . |
| 24 | And it is convenient in practice that he should be a member , since this obviates the frequent summoning of the Law Officers for advice on points of Law . |
| 25 | It was having the same sorts of mainly damaging effects on people 's personal lives and on their family lives and so on , and in research that I carried out in Brighton erm over the past three or four years we were looking at these effects — how they were affecting unemployed people in Brighton — and trying to explain them . |
| 26 | It is striking that Lewis did not want it known in College that he wrote ‘ pomes ’ , but only natural that he should have looked outside Magdalen for soulmates within his own Faculty . |
| 27 | It was in Schiaparelli that she met Tricarico , who brought her aboard the Resplendent Trogon , which led her into the presence of Balthazar Plum — and if it had n't been for all that , she would never have acquired the Alice in the first place . |
| 28 | His reply was so matter-of-fact , so lacking in emotion that she found it hard to believe . |
| 29 | Lord Greene MR stated in Saltman that it is perfectly possible to have a confidential document , be it a formula , a plan , a sketch , or something of that kind , which is the result of work done by the maker on materials which may be available for the use of anybody . |
| 30 | The walk meant he would be able to claim in future that he had promenaded on the Promenade des Anglais . |