Example sentences of "[that] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I draw the attention of the House and of Ministers to the fact that in that context it seems to make no sense whatsoever that one regulatory authority responsible for safety — the maritime inspectorate — should still remain within the Department of Transport . |
| 32 | The truth is that in European affairs it would be difficult to diminish further the power of this Parliament . |
| 33 | More analytically , pluralist methods might in theory uncover conspiracy by an elite by investigating observable decisions , and the fact that in various studies they did not find evidence of narrow conspiratorial elites led pluralist community power researchers to conclude that a more flexible competitive and open system prevailed . |
| 34 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 35 | While such a set-up would probably be established under the auspices of the Bank of England , the main users in the shape of the institutions envisage that in due course they would take over ownership . |
| 36 | ‘ At this stage it is too early ti give an accurate figure for the likely return to depositors , however I do believe that in due course it should be substantial . |
| 37 | He said that in 10 years he hoped to have boosted the Mongolian economy to South Korea 's present level , with the help of the developed countries and of international economic organizations . |
| 38 | But Mr Heath was savagely criticised by the press and the public , and friends of Mr Major believe that in similar circumstances he would be unlikely to hang on . |
| 39 | This means that in individual families it must have been rather unusual to have grandparents surviving much beyond the infancy of their grandchildren , and thus relationships across three generations would have been comparatively rare . |
| 40 | ‘ It strikes me that in new clothes you could be highly presentable . |
| 41 | If however you hear anything of the matter , urge it as much as you can , and believe me I will leave no unconnected links in my track — and that in two years I will leave but little to be discovered here , if it please Providence to continue to me its wonted care . |
| 42 | ‘ Duart is forbidden visitors today , my lady , so that in two days he may be fit for the ceremony . |
| 43 | He stood for a moment longer , looking at her , unable to speak , seeing that she was so beautiful it was hurtful to him , thinking that in other circumstances he would be unmanned by such beauty , except that he was not unmanned , that was the very last thing … |
| 44 | Meeting Thomas reminded me that human relations do n't have to be like this , that in other countries you open your account in credit , and unless you squander that goodwill by behaving like a complete arsehole , the mutual warmth continues to grow with every subsequent encounter , as though it were natural for human beings to get on together . |
| 45 | The " I am lay " is a very old ritual that in other countries you can only read about in history books . " |
| 46 | The West , the Atlantic world , may have been firing rockets to the moon and fighting a war in Indochina , but the benefit of hindsight indicates now that in other ways it was gripped by a blinkered and introspective mood , absorbed by its own internal problems . |
| 47 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 48 | To the extent that the purchaser is willing to accept this reduction of the absolute nature of warranties , it should be on the basis the vendor acknowledges that in all circumstances it has made full and proper enquiries and investigations ( see clause 13.6 of the standard sale agreement — Appendix III ) ; ( i ) to provide that the vendor shall not be liable if the purchaser completed the sale at the full purchase price despite the fact that it had knowledge of a particular breach of warranty . |
| 49 | Essentially , everything is much the same as in the classical template except that in all probability it will be pretty well apparent to the reader quite soon who it is who has committed the murder . |
| 50 | In 1983 , the Attorney General issued new guidelines to the police which suggested that in all cases they should prosecute only when there was at least a 50 per cent . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | And we know that in all respects he co-operates with those who love God . ’ |
| 53 | It is very true that in one sense it must be implied that although there is no existing difference , still that a difference may arise between the parties : yet I think the distinction between an existing difference and one which may arise is a material one , and one which has properly been relied on in this case … |
| 54 | Fitzgerald calculated the critical number of samples needed to be 80 per cent certain that the mean score would be no more than one year out , and found that in one book it was 72 samples — which amounted to nearly half the book ! |
| 55 | Nothing would stop them , nothing would prise them apart , and she was glad to have them there : she liked to think that she and Charles had a comprehensive acquaintance , that in one house they could assemble representatives of most of the intersecting circles that make up society . |
| 56 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 57 | Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry . |
| 58 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 59 | The temptation to equate the two positions relies apparently on two things : on the fact that in each case we have an adjective and a noun or noun phrase , and on the supposition that attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives all share the referential locus of the head noun to which they are related . |
| 60 | We found that in each case it was necessary to think of three dimensions . |