Example sentences of "[vb pp] [that] in [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this is theoretically conceivable , every writer who has recently examined the problem has considered that in nature it must be a very rare event and certainly not a common factor in the evolution of animal traits . |
| 2 | In Technograph Printed Circuits Ltd. v Mills & Rockley ( Electronics ) Ltd. [ 1969 ] , a case involving a patent for a method of making printed circuits , Harman J. said : It was objected that in fact it was not until ten years after the invention was published that it was commercially adopted … and it was argued from this that it was not a case of filling a long felt want . |
| 3 | But FA spokesman Mike Wilmore said : ‘ We have said that in principle we would n't be in favour , but it would be a brave man who said that would always be the position . ’ |
| 4 | The argument just offered may gain agreement in principle , but it could be said that in practice it is unworkable . |
| 5 | He has promised that in extremity he will send for her , and she will come and be his nurse . |
| 6 | The Departments of Environment and Transport could have agreed that in principle it was better not to encourage more cars onto the roads by building better motorways . |
| 7 | It had been agreed that in effect he was to work as required in any country in which his employers had contracts . |
| 8 | … In the present case it is not even averred that the defendants knew of the pregnancy of the plaintiff 's mother when they received her as a passenger ; it is merely averred that in fact she was then quick with child , viz. with the plaintiff , to whom she subsequently gave birth . |
| 9 | He had hoped that in time she would have his children and one day she might come to love him . |
| 10 | I have already suggested that in speech we normally plan at the point of utterance and that is evidenced in those typical features of speech which appear so surprising and , indeed , shocking to people inspecting transcripts for the first time . |