Example sentences of "[pron] that in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This makes us feel very feeble , as we have friends of our age who think nothing of motoring from here to Lowestoft in the day — but such feats are not for us , though we flatter ourselves that in most respects we are in pretty good nick . |
| 2 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 3 | As we were giving our hands he looked up at me intently and told me that in two days there would be a gypsy wedding . |
| 4 | It is only now clear to me that in actual fact it must have been a day later . |
| 5 | However , it seems to me that in most contexts the utterance of [ 25 ] would yield effects not produced by [ 27 ] . |
| 6 | Is it not good enough for ‘ Managers ’ to be sent with briefs , memorised in their heads , to have fireside chats with the best and brightest , telling them that in this day and age their promotion is really the ability to retain their jobs . |
| 7 | Ben parked his newly acquired BMW at the roadside and hoped it would be there when he returned , reassuring himself that in this place of utter solitude car thieves were n't likely to creep out of the hedgerows with duplicate keys . |
| 8 | But I believe the figure should be erm a few thousand below erm the forty one thousand and to that extent I would agree with you that in practical terms erm it 's going to be very difficult even if the figure is twenty five , twenty six thousand , to stick to thirty one . |
| 9 | But at the moment small primary schools may well look at the opting out procedure , and I would have to say to you that in many cases those very small primary schools are receiving , by the wish of the Council , a very substantial subsidy from the Local Education Authority in the manner in which they are funded and |
| 10 | Being only 5′ 2½″ tall myself I too feel very strongly about the unfairness of this , but there is absolutely nothing I can do about it except to warn you that in these circumstances you do need to be very accurate in counting calories in order to achieve a good rate of weight loss . |
| 11 | And it is the Yorkshire and Humberside Development Association that is the one that in this locality , the county , takes the lead in attracting inward investment . |
| 12 | Each justified her interest in such a vulgar book by telling herself that in these matters one must be able to judge for oneself . |
| 13 | Er I 've never had any dwindling intellectual powers er simply because I 've never had any intellectual powers in the first place , so I would agree with him that in all cases I find dealing with er matters of a er er er er of , of legislation er en enormously complex . |
| 14 | Now , Azmaveth had told him that in other academies , conditions were very different . |
| 15 | Again , on the face of the statute , I can not see any reason why in this case the constable should do more than tell the driver the reason under section 7(3) why breath specimens can not be taken or used ; tell him that in these circumstances he is required to give a specimen of blood or urine but that it is for the constable to decide which ; warn him that a failure to provide the specimen required may render him liable to prosecution ; and then , if the constable decides to require blood , ask the driver if there are any reasons why a specimen can not or should not be taken from him by a doctor . |
| 16 | Well liberation theology is one version of it that in certain parts of the world , particularly where there is great economic and political oppression , where people get locked up in prisons for believing and thinking differently , and where there is very real persecution of the poor , and those who erm have different ideas . |
| 17 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 18 | The old cliché has it that in hard times pop culture goes soft , entertainment becomes more trivial , more ‘ escapist ’ . |
| 19 | Is it that in this society there is much too much material clutter , which is a manifestation ( infestation ) of the weaker sides of brains everywhere , and this is placed as a permanent distraction from , and avoidance of , truth ( the complex abstractual reasoning of which we are all capable ) ? |
| 20 | Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him . |
| 21 | By contrast , legend has it that in some cases , a single observation may result in a great discovery and here we 've got one or two examples . |
| 22 | Why is it that in some societies like our own the three stages of childhood development are clearly distinguishable and of great importance as far as personality formation is concerned , whereas in other societies this is much less true , and one or two stages seem to be almost absent altogether ? |
| 23 | Although those who work with old people will have observed for themselves that in this group there are a significant number of male carers , the implications have not been fully drawn out because so many old disabled people at home alone are women and so many younger women carry the main burden of informal care at home . |
| 24 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 25 | She told us that in 1979 unemployment was increasing at the astronomical figure of two thousand three hundred a week . |
| 26 | Local party officials tell us that in last November 's by-election they pushed hard for the campaign slogan ‘ Ashok to the Tories . ’ |
| 27 | Although light is made up of waves , Planck 's quantum hypothesis tells us that in some ways it behaves as if it were composed of particles : it can be emitted or absorbed only in packets , or quanta . |