Example sentences of "[that] in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 2 | The problem for the draftsman of a partnership agreement who specifies the initial ratio and provides that in future years it shall be as agreed between the partners at the beginning or end of each year is that the equal sharing required under the Partnership Act in default of agreement will always benefit at least one of the partners . |
| 3 | For there to be such a fact about me is for it also to be true , roughly , that in certain circumstances I would consciously believe , desire , fear , intend , or whatever . |
| 4 | And that by now familiar music to many of you means that in five minutes it will be the Dougie Down Under competition thanks to QUANTAS , Australia 's national airline . |
| 5 | The truth is that in European affairs it would be difficult to diminish further the power of this Parliament . |
| 6 | But Mr Heath was savagely criticised by the press and the public , and friends of Mr Major believe that in similar circumstances he would be unlikely to hang on . |
| 7 | This means that in individual families it must have been rather unusual to have grandparents surviving much beyond the infancy of their grandchildren , and thus relationships across three generations would have been comparatively rare . |
| 8 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 9 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 10 | ‘ Duart is forbidden visitors today , my lady , so that in two days he may be fit for the ceremony . |
| 11 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 12 | The " I am lay " is a very old ritual that in other countries you can only read about in history books . " |
| 13 | In 1983 , the Attorney General issued new guidelines to the police which suggested that in all cases they should prosecute only when there was at least a 50 per cent . |
| 14 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 15 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 16 | A stronger version of the argument , not developed by Leontief himself but based on his theoretical foundations , is that the high level of productivity of capital may mean that in many instances it will be cheaper to use machines rather than people to perform jobs unless the wage rate is well below subsistence level . |
| 17 | It should also be noted that in many cases they would also facilitate explicit collusion , and so their use does not rule out the ( possibly concealed ) existence of this . |
| 18 | It is not anticipated that in many cases it would be necessary to seek an interdict . |
| 19 | It is of course true that in many cases it will be stated that the nave is , for example , twelfth-century , the chancel fifteenth ( with nineteenth-century restorations ) , the north chapel twentieth , and so on , but it will not record the stained glass now gone or the wall monuments which have decayed ( or , obviously , the changes wrought since the booklet was written ) . |
| 20 | A further possibility which is suggested by Lord Denning 's judgment is that in such circumstances it may not be a case for injunction but only for damages . |
| 21 | It is a gradual process of which there will be intermediate phases and it is hardly surprising that in such instances we will be uncertain whether or not to admit that the infant has made the grade . |
| 22 | It is quite preposterous that in 35 minutes we shall reach the end of this debate on banding , a matter of considerable interest to my constituents and , I suspect , to many other constituents in London and the south-east . |
| 23 | On 23 February / 7 March , five days after his accession , Alexander told the ambassadors of Austria and Prussia that in foreign affairs he would adhere to the late tsar 's principles . |
| 24 | The Employment Appeal Tribunal thought that in most circumstances it would be reasonable to imply a term along the lines that an employer will not treat his employees ‘ arbitrarily , capriciously or inequitably ’ in matters of remuneration . |
| 25 | The point I want to make is that in most cases they could not . |
| 26 | When , however , in one district , private hospitals attempted to provide data they found that in most cases they could not identify patients ' districts of residence ( S Israel , personal communication ) . |
| 27 | As we shall see in Section 6.5 , some weathering products show a remarkable resilience to changing environmental conditions to the extent that in some circumstances they can persist in the landscape essentially unaltered for tens of millions of years . |
| 28 | In Surere 's province , there had been many transgressions , despite the loss of privilege which was the only punishment he had dared impose , though there were rumours that in some cases he would have preferred to apply the death penalty . |
| 29 | Though it stated its hope that planning authorities would allocate sufficient land , it warned that in some cases it might have to take the initiative and , if local authorities refused planning permission , go to appeal . |
| 30 | He acknowledged that in some cases it could be hundreds of pounds extra but argued that people would still be allowed to go to law . |