Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [that] [pers pn] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were in total agreement that it was the best thing for both sides that Isabelle should go . |
| 2 | Harry Pascoe heard the laughter following this remark and was in little doubt that it was at his own expense . |
| 3 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 4 | Parents who questioned what appears to be an unwritten regulation have been told in each case that they are the only ones not co-operating … |
| 5 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 6 | A further advantage is that whereas with a series of debentures with a charge on the company 's assets it will be necessary to say expressly in each debenture that it is one of a series each ranking pari passu in respect of the charge ; debenture stock achieves that result without express provision . |
| 7 | More recently , however , Liberal Theology has become a recognised description of the Ritschlian school , and it is in that sense that it is used here . ) |
| 8 | With the sun below the horizon it was only by a perceptible lightening of the sky in that direction that it was possible to place themselves in the great ocean of trees . |
| 9 | But you you 'll probably , I would imagine , over a period of time , put a number of extra files in that directory that you 're going to need . |
| 10 | What I , what er , I in fact , what , what I did notice in that time that I was there , was that er , when you talk about the old guard , the young people , anybody under forty er they were a little bit cynical about this communism lark and Lenin and the rest of it , they all went to say , they would all go to Lenin 's er statue and in effect have a blessing from Lenin , we went along with them on one occasion , very pleased to do it , but you you got the impression that the younger generation were already in 1982 and the people now that are out there with Yeltsin were shying away from communism , now the thing is this that Gorbachev came along in my opinion exactly at the right time and tried to move things a little our way a little way from the hardline , which obviously could n't be sustained . |
| 11 | So common is this way of thinking in social research that it is difficult to recapture its radical and innovative character . |
| 12 | Then , with great bravado , she attacked the pile of pine-needles , scooping them up between the giant clutch of her karaso and her own small hand , depositing them in another heap that she was building on top of the rope . |
| 13 | One might answer in this case that it is also a typical feature of speech , so should probably be analysed as a contraction and for this reason avoided in academic writing — even if one accepts the idea of a regional/class standard . |
| 14 | Then suddenly a demoniacal light had entered his eyes and , since he seemed to be a man who would set about proving his own theories — in this case that it was inconceivable that she should be as innocent as she would appear — he took a couple of steps forward and reached for her . |
| 15 | Are there any disasters you see in your books that might take place in this country that we 're not taking any notice of , in terms of planning at all ? |
| 16 | Wrong , of course , but we were all so engrossed in this life that it was not possible until years afterwards to take an objective view . |
| 17 | It is in this way that we are able to develop an appreciation of spatial order . |
| 18 | It is as well to be clear in this way that you are giving priority to suspense because , of course , there are elements of suspense not only in almost all crime fiction but in almost all fiction of any sort . |
| 19 | It was in this way that he was thinking when , with Lili by his side and their suitcases on a trolley he would abandon at the tube-station entrance , he looked up and met the eyes of Adam Verne-Smith . |
| 20 | It is only in this way that it is possible to explain the fact that Chingis Khan was able to organize the nomads of Central Asia , an extraordinarily disparate collection of groupings whether considered ‘ racially ’ or ‘ linguistically ’ , into a unified and effective war machine . |
| 21 | It is because grammar has the effect of refining the relatively raw conceptual material of lexis by systematizing it in this way that it is considered as the primary determinant . |
| 22 | Hopefully he 's interested in being in this band that we 're trying to put together . |
| 23 | Well that was the that was the er base headquarters of the international brigade , Albusate And then from there , w you were farmed out to the village , which was er er sort of the base , who are responsible for your er particular national battalion , you see er , the the the French people , they they er w they would be in one village , the English and the Canadians er er Americans would be er in this place that we were at , called Tarrazona Er and the Germans w , the German anti-fascists would be er in another . |
| 24 | Liberal improvers , progressive Conservatives and socialists found themselves sharing some common ground in this assumption that it was the duty of the State to provide a better life for its citizens and which found expression in support for comprehensive social welfare , a national health service and a more humane treatment of those in need . |
| 25 | I think it 's , our feelings are quite strong about this , in this contest that we 're having with the Town Hall , that er , having exposed the five percent in the first place , we have had particular innovation about five B , being articulated as well . |
| 26 | Clive had got so used to being able to fool everyone in this circle that he was unnerved by her obvious clear-sightedness . |
| 27 | It was in this book that he was able to show me the first reference to the Santa Maria . |
| 28 | Indeed it will be argued later in this book that it is at this level — the level of field support — that the greatest single power to achieve innovation may lie . |
| 29 | God knows I 'm a failure , an insignificant speck of human nothingness trampled on indifferently by every casual passer-by , thought Dyson as he followed his wife out of the kitchen into the living-room , with his fists clenched in his trouser pockets and his face set in an unyielding frown , but there is one thing in this world that I 'm not going to stand for , and that 's being nagged by my wife . |
| 30 | ‘ There 's nothing in this world that I 'm afraid of , ’ he said smoothly , ‘ least of all anything I might have to say to you . ’ |