Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] that in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Of course , so few are aware of his background and he being , shall we say , a little unorthodox in his dealings with people , never seems to think of it or to realize that in some circles it might be of — of help to him .
2 I believe , therefore , that Rousseau was right to look with apprehension on the fragmentation of society into a collection of interest groups , and to see that in such circumstances it is all too easy for the general interest , the good of the community as a whole , to be lost sight of .
3 Even nobles who had at one time covertly recommended such a union were alarmed by the unseemly haste , and realized that in any case the tide of national opinion was against the match .
4 In 1909 they took the par as 84 , and agreed that in mixed foursomes , when short of a male partner , ladies could ‘ play with other ladies ! ’
5 The Ministry said that 97.25 per cent of the electorate of approximately 11,000,000 had voted , and reported that in some areas , including in the disputed Western Sahara , there were 100 per cent " yes " votes .
6 I would like to extend this idea and suggest that in larger homes there are likely to be groups of residents with particular needs requiring appropriate provision , such as those with severe physical disability , considerable mental infirmity , ethnic minority elders more estranged than usual in a residential environment , and those who are terminally ill or dying .
7 It calculates that for every 100 hundred trees cut done only nine are planted , and concludes that in some countries fuelwood supplies will soon be exhausted unless massive replanting is undertaken .
8 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 !
9 The learner notes what has happened in the past , and assumes that in like circumstances , the same will happen in future .
10 Now , let me say there 's one component of what Brian and Gerry have been saying , which I most passionately agree with as it happens — get that bit off my chest first — and that is that until we have a clear understanding of the mechanisms and processes of development , the processes whereby an egg turns into an adult , our theory of evolution will , indeed , be very imperfect , and we do not have such a theory , erm it 's exceedingly important that we should work on such a theory , and such a theory it is n't sufficient simply to say ‘ Oh well , there 's a genetic programme for development ’ and imagine that in other ways actually said something , because you actually have n't .
11 On the amount of damages , Mr Lightman said the Court of Appeal had a special responsibility to bear in mind the ‘ dangerous precedent ’ which could be set by such awards , and added that in this case the award was out of all proportion to the alleged libel .
12 The second sub-section looks at the implementation of more sophisticated open-loop control schemes and shows that in many cases the choice of software- or hardware-based control depends on the aspects of performance which are most important in the particular application .
13 However , Mr. Philipson seeks in effect to draw a line down the centre of the Atlantic , and to suggest that in some way the supervisory operations of the Federal Reserve Board and those of the Bank of England are separate and unconnected .
14 Some teachers described the inspection as a very artificial set-up and claimed that in general people were not giving ‘ normal ’ lessons .
15 Now , in 1805 , he can only see ‘ glimpses ’ , and fears that in old age nothing will be left .
16 She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her .
17 As a header of the ball he was phenomenal and it is amazing how many of his goals came from his head , while he possessed an extremely powerful shot — and remember that in those days the leather ball collected any moisture on the pitch and could finish up weighing several pounds !
18 I 've visited several large gardens recently and find that in many cases the plants in the herbaceous borders are supported by plastic-coated wire frames of varying sizes .
19 Pluralists deny that higher social classes monopolize power and believe that in liberal democracies the wishes of the people determine government policy .
20 This competition made conflicts more likely and meant that in any conflict rival groups of Indians would be involved ; those who traded with the French would support them , and their enemies would support the British , so that Indian skirmishing inland played a larger part in the fighting of the 1740s than in previous wars .
21 She looked at Fand , seeing the white arms shake , and knowing that in another moment a spear would go home and Fand would die ; because of me , she thought , all because of me .
22 Erm are you saying then that erm you have actually quantified and and related that in some way to the the damage which has been evident through all of the statements from Harrogate Borough Council , to in fact the N Y C C and acknowledged by the N Y C of the environmental impact that this will have .
23 Buffers and balances that in temperate latitudes keep populations steady have less application in polar regions , and swings between success and failure , between underpopulation and overcrowding , tend to be violent .
24 By expanding the logarithmic term and assuming that in dilute solutions this can be restricted to the first expansion term , ln a 1 can be related to the mole fraction of the solute x 2 .
25 The government , however , attributed the delays to " technical " difficulties and said that in late May the National Guard and Treasury Police would be " concentrated " in 62 locations .
26 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 .
27 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 . ’
28 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 .
29 He considered the ordinary meaning of the word rape and concluded that in ordinary parlance rape does not connote sexual intercourse with a woman in the belief that she consents .
30 Riffaterre stresses the theoretical and practical problems involved in defining ( as the Prague School tried to do ) external literary and linguistic norms , and suggests that in any case ‘ normal ’ language can itself be a source of stylistic effect in a text .
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