Example sentences of "[that] in [adj] [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | He considered the ordinary meaning of the word rape and concluded that in ordinary parlance rape does not connote sexual intercourse with a woman in the belief that she consents . |
2 | However , real-time evidence shows that in nineteenth-century Belfast raising of /a/ was well established both before and after velars : the rules are clearly stated by Patterson ( 1860 ) and cited in chapter 4.6 . |
3 | Another distinction is that in reckless manslaughter recklessness as to physical injury is needed ; in gross negligence the criterion may be merely gross negligence as to health or welfare . |
4 | It could be said that in Western society religion has performed a considerable disservice by providing a more or less uniform system of social values — the Christian ethic . |
5 | It is undeniably the case that in Western society aggression is regarded as part of human nature . |
6 | Finally , the theory that attention is directed to the left or right side as a consequence of asymmetrical activation of the cerebral hemispheres ( Kinsbourne , 1970 ; 1973 ; 1975a ) predicts that in hemispherectomised patients attention should be directed almost exclusively to the side contralateral to the intact hemisphere . |
7 | It points out that in 1989 government revenue was £18.1 billion , made up of £2.9 billion from road tax , £1.5 billion from car tax , £5 billion from VAT and £8.7 billion from fuel taxes . |
8 | Nevertheless , the ECA report noted that in 1989 food production in Africa had actually grown faster than population , for only the third time in 20 years ( 3.4 per cent , against population growth of 3.2 per cent ) , and that food imports had fallen by 12 per cent . |
9 | Tests on working class black people are then cited as evidence that in oral contexts education is by demonstration and is ‘ totally dependent on the concrete physical situation ’ ( ibid . ) . |
10 | This too failed , on the basis that in unlawful means conspiracy , as in conspiracy to injure , there must be an intent to injure the plaintiff , and conspiracy should not be extended ‘ beyond acts done in execution of an agreement entered into by two or more persons for the purpose not of protecting their own interests but of injuring the interests of the plaintiff . ’ |
11 | One of the reasons it thinks that COSE is interested in its participation is that it has some key technology that in typical DEC fashion , it has failed to trumpet . |
12 | The court accepted that in certain circumstances information about prices could be invested with a sufficient degree of confidentiality to make that information a business secret or its equivalent but in the present case it found factors which led it to the conclusion that neither the information about the prices nor the sales information as a whole had the degree of confidentiality necessary to support the plaintiff 's claim . |
13 | It was explained in Chapter 7 that in certain contexts no is pronounced , but the theory mentioned in the last sentence would claim that at an abstract level there is a phoneme , though in certain contexts the is not actually pronounced . |
14 | Weber 's observations on status groups are important since they suggest that in certain situations status rather than class provides the basis for the formation of social groups whose members perceive common interests and a group identity . |
15 | Coates ( 1985 , pp. 27 , 77 ) , for example , argues that in recent decades narrative has broken down to be replaced by a cinema of ‘ isolated heterogeneous events held together by the ramshackle constructions of Victorian melodrama ’ , and that from the mid-1960s we have seen the dissolution of the distinction between realist and non-realist film . |
16 | Just in case you 're tempted by knockdown prices on old style monitors , by the way , you should bear in mind that in four years time it will actually become illegal to use them at all at work . |
17 | It is useful to know what other models can do since microcomputers have a limited life and it may be that in five years time , the librarian and teachers will be involved in seeking a replacement for the existing microcomputer . |
18 | Do n't you understand that in small countries power is more likely to remain undisguised because there is n't sufficient societal depth to conceal the realities of institutionalised brutality beneath a respectable fiction ? ’ |
19 | The main point , however , is that in successful participant observation not only is the borderline blurred between covert and overt observation ; so also is the borderline blurred between covert and overt recording . |
20 | One relevant finding of Abrams ' research was that in successful neighbourhood care there were often central figures , key individuals , perceived as critical to the scheme . |
21 | In the Offer for Sale document published at the time of the Company 's flotation in 1986 , it was stated that in due course consideration would be given to the introduction of a Share Option Scheme for Executive Directors and senior management but that no such scheme would be operated without the prior approval of shareholders and in any event not before 1988 at the earliest . |
22 | In my view the key to the solution of the present problem is to be found by recognising that in present day society people generally work with two principal aims in view ; the first is to provide themselves with an income available for current spending and the second is to provide money that will be put into a pension scheme to provide them with an income after their retirement . |
23 | They pay that in bloody mackerel fishing |
24 | It seems indeed that in Darwinian terms egoism can not be primary , in spite of the fact that genetic traits will survive only if they favour their carriers . |
25 | First of all their assumption that in simple societies technology explains satisfactorily the division of labour is untenable . |
26 | In April 1989 a United States drug enforcement agent gave his personal guarantee that in two years time the United Kingdom would have a serious crack problem . |
27 | And we know that in all things god works for good for them that love him . |
28 | As the days passed in the library I increasingly understood why Laura had been attracted to Edward — the wry , sidespin dart of his humour , the sudden shy warmth of expressed affection , the uncompromising certainty that in all things meaning inhered , and the strict honesty which refused glib answers . |
29 | This time my reaction to the knowledge that in all probability cancer was back with me and that I had a dreaded secondary was quite different from my reaction on first being told of the disease six months earlier . |
30 | The following month , in the same journal , a swift refutation of these tenets came in the shape of a letter from a consultant histopathologist by name of J.V. Clark , who responds to the last point regarding the relations ' not understanding what is being asked when a postmortem is requested , by pointing out that in all probability funeral directors do not explain the procedure of embalming to the next of kin and , more seriously , maintaining that delay would reduce the maximum benefit of an autopsy and also delay the funeral . |