Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] in [adj] [noun sg] [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 | She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The ITA decided that in this region it did not matter if the finance was not ‘ local ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He knew that in some way he had hurt her . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |