Example sentences of "in [v-ing] that [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bea Campbell ( MT May ) is over-simplistic in suggesting that the Labour Party 's hesitancy in supporting the ‘ Do n't Pay ’ poll-tax movement is solely a consequence of its preoccupation with success in the next general election .
2 Gladstone may have been slightly closer to the mark in suggesting that the public schools were part of the constitution .
3 ( 1.1 ) We have in fact already come close to the view that mental events are at bottom individual properties , or rather sets of them , in allowing that the interdependent existence of subject and content may be a matter of nomic correlation .
4 ( It is worth noting in passing that a similar kind of question comes up for dancers as well as singers .
5 It is noted in passing that the First Directive has been replaced , with effect from 1 July 1990 , by Council Directive ( 88/361/E.E.C. ) of 24 June 1988 ( Official Journal 1988 No .
6 Note in passing that the actual wavelength in a transmission line is a little less than that in air on account of the dielectric constant of the plastic insulating material but this does not significantly affect the foregoing order of magnitude estimates .
7 And John of Salisbury was not alone in believing that the administrative class was in dire need of instruction , lest it subvert the common good in its own or its master 's interests .
8 They were no doubt correct in believing that the financial burdens of Empire fell heavily on the two Castiles : heavy taxation drove industry and population to the peripheral regions and emphasized the decline of agriculture .
9 In all cases the respondent may request in writing that the disciplinary findings be published .
10 Many leaders did just that : Hugh Price Hughes could declare in writing that the National council ‘ represents the view of a majority of the Christian people of England ’ .
11 WESTERN analysts have been too complacent in supposing that the Japanese government , with its seemingly firm economic grip , can handle the consequences of several years of speculative boom .
12 That too might be characterised as a courageous move — but nothing like as courageous as that of James Burke and his cohorts in deciding that the right man to dig IBM out of its hole was outsider Louis V Gerstner Jr .
13 By a notice of appeal dated 12 December 1990 the plaintiffs appealed on the grounds , inter alia , ( 1 ) that the judge erred in law in holding that the first defendant was entitled to add to any security , all the costs charges and expenses , however unreasonable they were ; ( 2 ) the judge failed to follow the decision in In re Adelphi Hotel ( Brighton ) Ltd. [ 1953 ] 1 W.L.R. 955 ; ( 3 ) the judge erred in law in construing the charging covenants of the legal mortgage which were all in similar terms that all costs charges and expenses howsoever incurred by the first defendant or any receiver under or in relation to the mortgage or such indebtedness or liabilities on a full indemnity basis as allowing the first defendant to charge as it pleased however unreasonable such a charge might be ; and ( 4 ) the judge erred in law in not construing that provision as a provision providing for taxation or computation on an indemnity basis of the first defendant 's costs , charges and expenses .
14 Godfrey J. answered the question by concluding that the Board of Review were incorrect in law in holding that the relevant profits did not arise in or derive from Hong Kong .
15 The grounds of the appeal were that ( 1 ) the judge misdirected himself in holding that the preliminary issue should be answered in the affirmative and/or in giving judgment on the preliminary issue for the plaintiff and ( 2 ) the defendants were not liable in negligence to the plaintiff for any injury , loss or damage suffered by him while a foetus and en ventre sa mère since he was born prior to the passing of the Congenital Diabilities ( Civil Liability ) Act 1976 and the common law did not recognise such a cause of action .
16 I have come across deaf mutes educated by all systems , and as I have met and conversed with the deaf in various parts of Great Britain and Ireland , France , and the United States , I have not the least hesitation in saying that the combined method as advocated by Dr. E. M. Gallaudet before the recent Royal Commission certainly confers the greatest benefit upon the greatest number .
17 At the general election we shall be justified in saying that the Conservative party can not again claim to be the party of law and order .
18 In saying that the scientific/industrial paradigm is giving way and that something new is taking its place , we are not suggesting that economic activity will cease .
19 In saying that the free market equilibrium would be at E , we are really saying that it would not be worth while for each individual to check up privately on each and every drug on the market .
20 And also am I , am I right in saying that the preliminary interview , you said something about erm having erm sessions , you had , for a time you were actually erm situated in the flats overni
21 A spokesman for the British Field Sports Society said it was the first time he had heard of this happening ; which prompted Chapman Pincher to write in saying that the same thing had happened to him in 1961 ( Daily Telegraph , 21 and 24 December 1987 ) .
22 Also , am I right in saying that the aforementioned album features none other than NME man Sherman ?
23 This is implied in saying that the original statement expressed an attitude , and not a belief about an attitude .
24 In these circumstances the Committee felt justified in insisting that the new requirement be met .
25 Mr Tristan Garel-Jones , Foreign Office Minister , will join his French counterpart , M Roland Dumas , in insisting that the two Lockerbie suspects be handed over for trial in the West .
26 I feel that the facilities provided by the Careers Service have never had greater significance and I take some consolation in knowing that the current team is well structured and dedicated to providing the best possible service in finding careers and fulfilment for graduates from the University ’ .
27 This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves .
28 Few British juries had ever been happy ‘ to equate ordinary sexual desire with depravity ’ , as the Working Party would have had it , but Williams a decade later was equally wrong in assuming that the 1959 test was therefore null and void .
29 We must nevertheless be cautious in assuming that the changing forms of association identified by these authors are simply products of their romanticising imaginations .
30 ‘ Or , ’ she added with deliberate coquetry , ‘ am I mistaken in assuming that the light-fingered Lotta is no longer a part of your — er — personal life ? ’
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