Example sentences of "[noun sg] that in [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I 'll never know how I made it through to the interval , an hour later , but I do know that I wrenched those lenses out with such force that in the second act I was white-faced , red-eyed , and resembled one of the Brides of Dracula .
2 Again , it was the darkest ones that survived best , with the result that in a few generations the peppered moths living near the big industrial cities were nearly all black .
3 When my hon. Friend returns to his desk after the next election has been won by the Conservatives , will he bear it in mind that in the past 10 years west Lancashire has benefited greatly from being a development area ?
4 Like ‘ violons ’ , this is a term that in the 17th century was used more broadly than the single word ‘ oboe ’ suggests .
5 The evidence of Table 6.10 strongly supports the case that in a competitive and semi-strong form market , few investment advisors can be consistently successful .
6 He went on to say that the Met failed in this respect , and it is certainly the case that in the late Sixties some policemen would have taken the evidence with them , later , with a conjuror 's flourish , producing sackfuls of cannabis from behind the furniture with cries of ‘ Hullo John !
7 It was certainly the case that in the first centuries the example of Jesus must have been a tremendous model for living and for dying .
8 Erm , it 's quite frankly about abusing women and it 's often the case that in the eighteenth century one 's sexuality was considered to begin much earlier than we do now .
9 Finally he took a whole lot of bottles out in the hope that in the ensuing muddle they would all finally be fitted in .
10 Unlike the state monopoly telecommunications business which has tended to stay that way , the semiconductor chip business started out with United States commercial dominance ; it has continued on this pattern , with the one major change that in the 1980S the multinational companies dominating the world chip business ceased to be predominantly American and became a combination of Japanese and United States companies .
11 It is no coincidence that in the current recession , the big boys have been active again , though with mixed success .
12 Eliot may have experienced displeasure at racial mixing in After Strange Gods , which he later withdrew from print as ‘ a bad book ’ , but it was no coincidence that in the same year as the performance of The Rock he defended Frazer , but attacked Ezra Pound 's favourite , Leo Frobenius , whose anthropological doctrines of racial purity he found particularly distasteful .
13 It is a striking coincidence that in the same year that Aethelbald came to power among the Mercians , the assassination of Osred , son of Aldfrith , in Northumbria and the accession there of Coenred also broke the entrenched power of the family of Aethelfrith which had dominated the kingship of the northern Angles for more than seventy years ( see below , pp. 47 ff . ) .
14 And I knew from experience that in the ten to fourteen days during wastage of muscle tissue prior to an operation , a patient should normally suffer intense pain almost every hour of every one of those days .
15 It was no wonder that in the late Seventies , when Americans were beginning to query whether they were carrying out too many coronary by-passes , Britain 's health correspondents were reporting that many people did not even know such life savers existed .
16 Genealogy develops the possibility broached in the Archaeology that in a general history different significances can be accorded to events , depending on ‘ their correlation with other previous or simultaneous events , discursive or not ’ .
17 It was a help that in the same year , 1977 , Robert Fellowes left Harvey & Ross , the discount brokers , to become the Queen 's assistant private secretary .
18 Granted his contention that in the long-term or ideal equilibrium , wealth and power are inevitably associated with one another , it is coherent with his general model that he reduces class analysis to elite analysis , but again this is a problem which recurs in later elitists in more potent form .
19 But er at that time there was plenty work coming in , erm there was , there was no need for us to be apprehensive , and so therefore we had to convince the management that in the best interests of everybody , having agreed that the scheme would go on across the whole spectrum of the workforce , was to move reasonably , you know , quickly through the various machine departments and introduce with a minimum amount of frustration .
20 It is a sobering statistic that in the twelve months either side of Owens ' triumph there were twenty-six lynchings of blacks in the USA .
21 I did not want that , but I believed that the top salary awards were so out of line with what we were proposing in the rest of the public sector that in the real world of industrial relations it made my job infinitely more difficult .
22 But , having regard to the passage from the judgment of the European Court in the Francovich case which I have just quoted , it is in my opinion right that in the present case your Lordships should proceed on the basis that if , on the reference to it in the Stoke-on-Trent case [ 1991 ] Ch. 48 , the court should hold that section 47 of the Shops Act 1950 is invalid as being in conflict with article 30 of the Treaty , the United Kingdom may be obliged to make good damage caused to individuals by the breach of article 30 for which it is responsible .
23 It follows from the above account of the expectations-augmented Phillips curve that in the short-run , both Y and P rise ( and unemployment falls ) , but that in the long-run , unemployment returns to the NUP and Y falls back to that level associated with the NUP .
24 Just making the point that in the early years , your income will be less , then there 's a crossover point , because the value of the asset grows , and so does the yield on the fund .
25 This was important because they had a predominantly ‘ social ’ rather than a ‘ professional ’ relationship with users , and it acted as a reminder that in the final analysis they had the power to impose sanctions when necessary .
26 I am driven to the conclusion that in the present state of the law , article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights , and equally article 19 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights ( to similar effect ) do apply .
27 In March and April 1982 well-meaning planning experts back in Whitehall had obviously jumped to the conclusion that in the wet , cold , boggy desolation of East Falkland , dehydrated Arctic rations would be the ideal fare .
28 I refer to the decision of the Labour Group that in the first instance all Conference items should be submitted to the Labour Group Executive for approval before being placed on a committee agenda .
29 However , it is a matter of historical record that in the twenties the Ipswich branch had opposed the development of a district organisation and viewed the period following the introduction of the 1924 Adult Education Regulations as one of increasing centralisation .
30 As for the hon. Gentleman 's suggestion that the grant-maintained school policy might be paralysing the production of reorganisation proposals , let me tell the hon. Gentleman that in the past 12 months 150 proposals for school reorganisations were received and some 93 have so far been approved .
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