Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] that [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 What she said to me on the subject of the race riots and how she felt in that context makes me think that this stage in her life was nothing to do with race .
2 I accept that political activity in this country could undermine credibility , but it might just confirm credibility .
3 Now whenever I smell roasted chestnuts in Shijo-dori in Kyoto , or in Zürich Hauptbahnhof , I remember that aching void in my life .
4 ‘ I 'm telling you , ’ she said , ‘ when I heard that big clock in the hall striking the five , you could 've knocked me down with a feather !
5 I believe that total employment in manufacturing on the Chirton Estate is unlikely to exceed 3000 , although there are some jobs in retailing .
6 The law firms within it have been competing very strongly with each other , there are six extremely good law firms in Leeds and their I think that that experience in competition over the last few years will stand them in very good stead .
7 What I have to say really , is that most of those premises present very little risk at all , and , and I think that any change in the implementation of fire safety legislation should be based in prioritization .
8 Then I notice that this creature in front of me , allegedly my loin fruit , but dressed more like a senior member of Hezbollah , is wearing earphones and tapping a toe to some unheard tune .
9 When I held that tiny baby in my arms it was so hard to believe that something so beautiful could come from such a sordid act .
10 the observation that lactose malabsorption is a common long term effect of abdominal or pelvic irradiation , or both , is important and consistent with the findings of a prospective study conducted by our group which suggests that mucosal damage in acute radiation enteritis does not resolve in many patients .
11 Because ZFM was set up in 1967 at the insistence of the military , who argued that economic development in the Amazon basin was necessary for national security , its managing authority , SUFRAMA ( Superintendencia da Zona Franca de Manaus ) is responsible to Defence rather than Trade .
12 Maggie was about to refuse but she caught that sceptical look in the count 's eye and changed her mind .
13 He is the mathematician who says that intelligent life in the Universe does not exist , because if it did we would be knee deep in space probes by now .
14 ‘ Any party who seeks to charge an accounting party with an amount beyond that which he has by his account admitted to have received or who alleges that any item in his account is erroneous in respect of amount or in any other respect must give him notice thereof stating , so far as he is able , the amount sought to be charged with brief particulars thereof or , as the case may be , the grounds for alleging that the item is erroneous .
15 Is it that she , she 's , she 's , she 's wondering what will happen to her family or children if they go abroad , or is she thinking that each country in the Community , perhaps having some special erm excellence of its own , ought to be shedding this example among the others so that we all raise ourselves to a common , higher level ?
16 Profound disappointment and frustration , however , awaited those — especially in Britain — who hoped that American involvement in the First World War might prove to be the first step towards an on-going partnership .
17 Guest of honour this year was Garry Hawkes FHCIMA , Gardner Merchant 's chief executive , who explained that encouraging training in the industry is one of the central pillars of his own philosophy .
18 ‘ I 've never been so tired in all my life , ’ sighs the whey-faced spinster , and Williams is wryly sympathetic to her plight : unlike Greta Garbo , who uttered that same line in Grand Hotel , she has no possibility of romantic regeneration .
19 We treasure confirmation and we fear that any alteration in the pattern might lead to confirmation ceasing to be observed .
20 We found that chronic constipation in young children can persist for many years .
21 When an industry is imperfectly competitive we say that each firm in the industry enjoys a degree of monopoly power .
22 That interpretation of an extent is consistent with Anderson 's arguments , if one assumes that working-class life in Lancashire towns was more stable in the later period and somewhat less harsh , removing the absolute necessity for short-term instrumental calculation , while at the same time making predictions about the likelihood of reciprocal support in the future more reliable .
23 Although we accept that careful zoning in time and space can help to reduce the impacts of noise , we believe there is an urgent need to encourage attitudinal changes in society towards the acceptability of mechanically-aided recreation .
24 We can only identify the proper criteria correctly if we accept that medical treatment in general ought to be divided , for our purposes , into two classes .
25 We believe that formal training in the use of the laryngeal mask would be beneficial to any physician dealing with such cases .
26 To see that this is true , we note that any path in a tree corresponding to a BFS of an AP consists of an alternating sequence of row and column vertices , and R i and C j adjacent in this sequence means is basic .
27 We think that pulmonary tuberculosis in HIV-positive patients should be considered a criterion for AIDS only if immunodepression is shown by a negative tuberculin skin test and/or low CD4/CD8 ratio .
28 Sitting alone , he lit his cigarette , the first of the day , and there came that faint swimming in the head , a tautening of the gut .
29 They know that any shortfall in product quality or deficiency in service is a competitive opportunity .
30 They did not know when accident or sickness would hit them , and though they knew that some time in middle age — perhaps in the forties for unskilled labourers , perhaps in the fifties for the more skilled — they would become incapable of doing a full measure of adult physical labour , they did not know what would happen to them between then and death .
  Next page