Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 2 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 5 | The Cabinet agreed that in these circumstances it was inevitable that the decision on this issue should be left to a free vote . |
| 6 | I argued that in most cases it was quite clear that the projects officers had not paid any serious attention to gender issues . |
| 7 | However , the Middle East Economic Digest of Oct. 26 noted that in some quarters it was being interpreted as " a gambit to force parliament to commute the sentences , thereby improving Turkey 's international image " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | However , the Oxford Study showed that in many cases it was not a factor , since very little use was made of this procedure , despite its obvious advantages to the defendant . |
| 10 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 11 | Counsel for the appellants had attacked this finding because the patient had been an outpatient at a different hospital in the past and a practitioner there could have fulfilled this function ; and he submitted that in any case it was a duty of the hospital managers to find out if it was practicable to obtain the recommendation of a practitioner who had previous acquaintance with the patient : he relied on the form of the question ‘ explain why you could not get a recommendation from a medical practitioner who did know the patient ’ on the hospital admission application form . |
| 12 | The ITA decided that in this region it did not matter if the finance was not ‘ local ’ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sycorax saw that in this regard she had achieved her curse : for Kit too , Roukoubé was a mongrel whelp , the reminder of his weakness and Ariel 's strangeness . |
| 15 | He knew that in some way he had hurt her . |
| 16 | She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you . |
| 19 | Hamilton asserted that in ordinary life it was the strong arm of the law and not the strong arm of the husband which protected women from hurt or molestation . |
| 20 | Lord Morton of Henryton commenting on that example said that in each case it would be for the Commissioners to make a finding as to whether the income in question was or was not paid to or for the benefit of the child by virtue or in consequence of the settlement . |
| 21 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 22 | I know I 'm not saying sorry , because I said that in those letters I wrote , and then I had to copy them out again , because they were n't neat enough , and that 's enough sorries for anyone . |
| 23 | Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it . |
| 24 | Under gentle pressure he conceded that Riddle had mentioned the possibility of marriage and said that in this circumstance he would want to make a fresh will . ’ |
| 25 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 26 | 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 . |