Example sentences of "in [noun] [that] [pron] " 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 Mrs Orton showed an interest in Marcus that she had failed to show in Daniel and Stephanie .
3 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 .
4 But they lived in hope that they might be so blessed .
5 Do you live in hope that your fortune might tempt her away from her rightful husband ? ’
6 or and then we used to have some gorgeous lamps that er we used to get in Chelsea that it was fasten on the wall and the lamp would come over on the shade , down and completely change , do you remember that ?
7 Terrible things are happening in Germany that we need to explain to our listeners .
8 It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon .
9 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 .
10 He wrote to a friend : ‘ I feel it is only in weakness that I can glorify God . ’
11 So too in memory research ; if an animal can not be shown to have learned except by changing its behaviour and this change in behaviour can only be induced by some form of stress or constraint , then the changes in biochemistry that one finds in relation to the learning must include the changes in relation to the stress — including all the types of neuromodulators discussed in the last chapter .
12 Just as you learn you learn your basic modes of essay writing in essays that I 'm not going mark for A Level exams , okay , erm , but there is another way .
13 I am involved in cases that I would n't otherwise have the chance to deal with .
14 ‘ They must have decided in Cas that she is n't hepatitis , ’ said Juliet .
15 Eliot made clear in Notes that his true concern was ‘ a problem of the first importance … that of the transmission of culture ’ .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 There is no point in continuing to veil the truth in symbolism , for the truths are so distorted , and systematically disguised , in religions that they are unrecognizable as truths to most people .
20 The Pigou-Friedman view that competitive market economies tend to gravitate towards a state of overall full employment is now such a firmly entrenched proposition in macroeconomics that it has almost gained the status of an axiom .
21 There is no indication that there was any direct connection between the twelve ( of whom it is said in Acts that they stayed in Jerusalem ) and the advent of ministry in the churches in the gentile world .
22 At that time erm , I was a commercial traveller and Harlow was part of my district and they reluctantly accepted the fact that because I was a commercial traveller working in Harlow that I actually did work in Harlow which was stretching a point , but I really think that the Development Corporation 's officials were getting a little tired of my being able to talk their own language and to write letters in the same vein as they could write , they were n't used to this , and , at any rate , as I said earlier we got here .
23 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 .
24 When John Peter , no doubt in a state of some alarm that his scholarship had provoked such a response , offered to publish a retraction , Eliot 's solicitors wrote in March that their client considered it " neither necessary nor desirable " for any such retraction to appear ; their client would take the very gravest view of any " further dissemination " of the article or its contents , which he had read " with amazement and disgust " .
25 To that end , he announced in March that he would be raising taxation next year , and again the year after that .
26 News came in March that he had been captured and probably killed during the retreat from Teruel .
27 It is by being aware of ‘ before ’ and ‘ after ’ in change that we are aware of time .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 The excellent work by Wandsworth borough council and by my hon. Friend will be rewarded , as the key to the increased majority in Parliament that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister will secure later this year lies in the fact that many London Labour-held marginals will fall as a result of the lingering effect of the loony London Labour party .
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