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

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1 For although Force Orders inevitably direct that such material will be submitted for assessment , it is typical that in a task-orientated institution which gives low priority or credence to the academic tome , the systems to ensure submission of the essays , or the ability to make much use of any useful ideas they contain , often remains sketchy .
2 Doctors have been slow to appreciate that in a similar way their standing in the community could be raised if they encouraged complaints , investigated them rigorously , and made restitution when appropriate .
3 Suppose we show that in a present-day vernacular there is structured variation in verb-forms of the type he does/he do ( see Cheshire , 1982 , for a relevant study ) , with one form perhaps being preferred in formal styles and the other in casual styles : we may also — by comparing the speech of different social groups and age-groups — show that one form is progressing at the expense of the other .
4 Pervasive though this negative tradition is , it does n't quite answer why it is that in a post-Christian society there should continue to be so much indifference to the claims of animals .
5 This is so sensitive that in a noisy office it can pick up an unamplified solid electric guitar from about 12 inches and show the exact pitch on the strobe .
6 Now I 'm sure you , Brian , would acknowledge that in a certain sense we are all laymen most of the time .
7 The answer is that in a certain sense there is only one categorical imperative , and all other categorical imperatives are applications of this .
8 Listening to this I on the whole thought that in a real sense he never really quite answered them , on the other hand he made every single person look silly .
9 She had taken the trouble first to find out what she could about the topic from the notes given , and had thought about it carefully , so that in a real sense she was herself involved in what was happening in the classroom .
10 Hewitt and Burton ( 1971 ) analysed the record for southwestern Ontario and found that in a 50-year period there would be 1 severe drought , 2 major windstorms , 5 severe snowstorms , 8 severe hurricanes , 10 severe glaze storms , 16 severe floods , 25 severe hailstorms and 39 tornadoes .
11 Germany 's World Cup maestro believes that in a former life he popped up as a plant — or an animal .
12 Finally , there is the distributional argument that in a state-owned firm there is less clearly an adversarial " us against them " contest between management and employees , because the profits ( if there are any ) do not accrue specifically to owners of capital .
13 If correct , it might imply that in a capitalist society our ordinary thoughts are part of a ‘ capitalist ideology ’ , which ensures that capitalists reap their profits whilst the rest of us are kept in obedient subordination .
14 God alone knew why we wanted to sail to New Zealand together , except that in a strange way we were friends .
15 He may , for instance , have a general belief that the woman 's wishes in sexual matters are immaterial , so that in a specific instance he does not bother either to enquire or to think about them .
16 He makes clear in an interview with the Times today that in a hung parliament his party would ‘ bargain very hard indeed ’ to stop Labour removing the £21,060 ceiling on National Insurance payments and introducing a 50p tax rate for top earners .
17 In the Diaspora , our Jewish people have been inclined to sit back and think that the battle has been won and that in a little while we Jews will have our National Home in our Promised Land .
18 She knew , as Travis must surely have known , that in a little while she would begin to feel really cold .
19 And we have done something about it , grasped the mettle , and I believe that in a short while we 're going to solve this problem , and it wo n't be thanks to you and the Conservative Party .
20 It always was a surprise , the pure majesty of the scene approaching the Alps , more especially in moonlight ; it seemed odd to me , whilst devouring this special panorama that in a short time we would be raining all the horrors of war down on people not seriously willing to fight .
21 But I did n't have a single partner who said to me afterwards that in a corporate sense I 'd done the wrong thing .
22 Furthermore , points out O'Connor ( 1973 p 123 ) , because languages have " different numbers of phonemes , and different allophones representing them , it follows that in a foreign language we do not hear the sounds in the same way as a native speaker does …
23 The history of forms in art has had some distinguished advocates , some of whom have been concerned with the transformation over time of one form to another ; others have been more attracted to problems of values , arguing either that styles in art change and decay , or that in a particular period there is an artistic will to produce work in a style of its own .
24 Yes , I can now reveal that in a previous life I was the iceberg that sunk the Titanic .
25 And suppose that in a previous existence you had suffered a particularly unfortunate fate — let us say that you met your death in a burning building .
26 Norris in fact claims that in the patristic period nothing was made of Christ 's maleness , as also not for example of his Jewishness , as being of Christological significance .
27 So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ?
28 We have demonstrated in various publications ( for example , J. Milroy and L. Milroy , 1978 ) that in the inner city there is a change in progress moving from front values of /a/ towards back values , beginning to affect even those environments that were formerly always front ( for example pre-voiceless stop environments , as in map , that ) .
29 Italy and the USA constitute rogue cases in the sense that in the former case there was political interest in change , while in the latter case there was an extraordinary mass interest in psychiatry .
30 The difference is that in the former case it is the teachers and support staff who use the systems , while in the latter it is the learners .
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