Example sentences of "that in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues . |
| 2 | Whether it was that in that heightened state I had a premonition of what was to follow , or was simply recalling Dennis 's corpse-like stupor in the next room , I felt a perverted thrill , as though I were desecrating the most holy altar of all . |
| 3 | It is just that in that particular situation he had to act as he did , and to have acted differently would have meant that he would have been in the wrong though not for the same reason . |
| 4 | It 's very interesting to note that in contemporary political philosophy there is almost no room left for democratic decision making because in most theories that we 're given , more or less everything is already decided at a constitutional level I mean think of theory of justice , it 's the theory of justice that decides the basic nature of a constitution so the role of members of a government is simply to interpret and apply the constitution so they can make the most efficient tax policies given the basic constitution , but no individual has the authority to challenge that constitution and change it by democratic means . |
| 5 | Now this very autonomization means for Bourdieu that in one given area there are two ‘ fields of production ’ . |
| 6 | None of this is intended to suggest , of course , that in each individual case there are certain essential properties which are sufficient to explain the numerical identity of the particular in question . |
| 7 | It stands to reason that in such vast space there must be some other beings . |
| 8 | Grant that in this new year we may know your presence , see your love at work , and live in the light of the vent which gives us joy forever — the coming of your Son , Jesus Christ our Lord . |
| 9 | It would appear that in this moral stance they were backed by public opinion . |
| 10 | It is also possible that in this variable phonology there was some tendency to merge final /?/ with /t/ . |
| 11 | You will notice that in this hypothetical story there were no fewer than 11 links in the causal chain linking altered gene to improved survival . |
| 12 | But the most important thing about Lord Robertson was that in this particular case he was even more prejudiced than Lord Grant , although in the light of all that had recently occurred , with far less excuse . |
| 13 | Uniting boredom , provinciality , the Gadarene stampede , and paper people , Peter Verkhovensky says : ‘ I realize that in this godforsaken town you are bored , so you make a rush for any piece of paper with something written on it . ’ |
| 14 | Firstly , the growth of corporate enterprise falsified the theory that in any given industry there were numerous small firms so that each firm had no market power but was obliged to accept the market price for its products . |
| 15 | What is important , however , is that in any particular apparatus one can observe a repeatable sequence of developments ( e.g. as Ra is increased ) . |
| 16 | He had n't known whether to put it down to the fact that she imagined he was being left outside the camaraderie of the brothers or that in some strange way she was laying claim on him . |
| 17 | Lewis , who was no fool , soon saw that in some incomprehensible way he had put his uncle 's back up . |
| 18 | She felt she had learned nothing about him as a man , that in some secret way he was keeping her at a distance . |
| 19 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 20 | ‘ Everard 's wife has flu , ’ Rupert explained , ‘ so we owe the pleasure of your company this evening to that rather unfortunate occurrence , ’ he went on , feeling that in some obscure way he was being complimentary neither to Penelope nor to the absent Mildred Bone , but not quite seeing how else he could have put it . |
| 21 | While agreeing broadly with the England manager 's summing-up of the present Brazilian team , the thought did occur that in another footballing era he could have been describing an Italian side — brilliant in breakaways but giving nothing away at the back . |