Example sentences of "[coord] that in [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doubtless there will be some who will argue that attempting to change structures is less important than trying to convince those who exercise power in our society to do so responsibly or that in any case radical changes in structures are politically impossible . |
| 2 | François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past . |
| 3 | Edgar thanked the Danes for their support and allowed them to live under such laws as they might choose , and it must be significant that Swegen landed in Lincolnshire when he made his bid for the kingship in 1013 , and that in 1066 King Harald of Norway made for York , where he had hopes that the citizens would assist him in his endeavours . |
| 4 | It was admitted that occasionally the good were afflicted too , and that in these cases God was probably testing their faith , or even possibly allowing them their purgatory on earth , but on the whole the Church found it more satisfactory to believe that madness was punitive and well-deserved . |
| 5 | The origins of this marital-rape exemption seem to lie in the notion that the wife is the husband 's property , or that the wife promises intercourse on demand , but it has been defended in modern times on the basis that such cases raise essentially family matters , better suited to examination in a non-criminal court , and that in any case proof would be difficult . |
| 6 | The move has been criticized by environmental organizations , which argue that the cars could be fitted with a converter because the cost , around £300 per car , is not prohibitive and that in any case manufacturers have known for some time when the law would come into effect . |
| 7 | Studies of individual towns suggest that they were severely hit , that properties were deserted and that in some cases parishes had to be united , as the existing ones were too poor to maintain the services of the Church ( 77 , pp.286–8 ) . |
| 8 | Scotland Yard detectives have been visiting the Falklands digging up corpses of Argentine soldiers amid allegations that they were executed by British troops and that in some cases ears were cut off as war ‘ trophies ’ in the 1982 conflict . |
| 9 | A declassified message from the United States embassy in Rangoon dated Aug. 22 , 1989 , alleged that political prisoners had been tortured with burning cigarettes and electric shocks and that in some cases detainees had been tortured to death . |
| 10 | At some of the sessions teachers protested that the methods used when being observed were a product of the artificiality of the situation and that in some cases pupils seemed to be reluctant to participate orally when advisers were present . |
| 11 | By exposing the story of the silencing of women which underlies Herodotus 's project , the novel demonstrates that ‘ originary myths ’ are at the heart of factual descriptions about the world , and that in this sense women , by virtue of their historical ties with the discourses of fiction , have a privileged relation to the voice of knowledge . |
| 12 | My motivations were not as clear-cut as those of any contemporary workforce , but there is no doubt in my mind that I was going on strike in the only way I knew how to , and that in this sense Szasz is right to describe anorexia nervosa as a political problem . |