Example sentences of "[to-vb] [verb] in the [noun] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brilliant , spontaneous teaching is a rare event , and it would be a disservice to students to abandon planning in the hope that such teaching might happen . |
| 2 | To qualify to jump in the competition that has in the past produced young internationals like Annette Lewis , Marie Edgar and Paul Sutton , she has had to tour all over England . |
| 3 | Shareholders , who know they will get peanuts if the firm is wound up , want the firm to keep trading in the hope that it will come good . |
| 4 | Finally , doctors planning to become fundholders may not have worked assiduously to control prescribing in the knowledge that their budgets will be based on historical costs . |
| 5 | The future of Abe 's faction was unclear , for it contained many members who were thought to have joined in the belief that Abe was next in line for the office of Prime Minister . |
| 6 | Are there any particular topics that you think would have been useful to have seen in the course that were n't ? |
| 7 | The last three cases are also authority for the proposition that it is proper , though not obligatory , for the trial judge to tell the jury that , as well as going to credibility , good character is relevant when considering whether the defendant is the kind of man who is likely to have behaved in the way that the prosecution alleged . |
| 8 | However , the origin of this rule appears to have lain in the fact that , since the Crown was not liable in damages in the ordinary way , a requirement for an undertaking in damages would be inconsistent with the Crown 's immunity from liability ; and it was concluded that the Crown Proceedings Act 1947 had removed the justification for the rule . |