Example sentences of "[that] in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the inspectors found that in its second year , up to the summer of 1991 , the only significant improvements were in primary science and ‘ some aspects of English . ’ |
| 2 | He predicted that in its first year the company would have a turnover of about £140m . |
| 3 | Experience during the past nine years indicates that in its new form guardianship has not gained popularity , and many social workers consider both that it is unenforceable and that it may be an unethical constraint on individual freedom . |
| 4 | Critics claimed that in its new form the post was earmarked for Lee Kuan Yew . |
| 5 | From this caricature ( for that is all there is time for here ) , it can be seen that in its empirical tradition , sociology ( and to a considerable extent social psychology also ) deals primarily with western industrial society , which it examines descriptively in a somewhat piecemeal fashion . |
| 6 | In the case of the atom , this meant that in its lowest energy state the electron could not be at rest in the nucleus because , in that case , its position would be exactly defined ( at the nucleus ) and its velocity would also be exactly defined ( to be zero ) . |
| 7 | But this sculpture remains an isolated example , emphasizing the fact that in its earliest stage Cubism was primarily a pictorial revolution . |
| 8 | We know from ancient tradition that in its earliest form Greek tragedy always dealt with the mythical sufferings of Dionysus . |
| 9 | Whilst it would be desirable to integrate information on our illustrations resources , it must be said that in its current incarnation IMAGES is too cumbersome and complex for data input , and is unacceptably slow for search and retrieval . |
| 10 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 11 | This motion advocated a revival of nationalist Gaullist traditions to distinguish the RPR electorally from other right-wing parties , and called for more party independence , asserting that in its present state , still demoralized by the defeat of Chirac in the 1988 presidential elections , the RPR was incapable of forming an effective opposition . |
| 12 | On 21 March , he wrote that he had ‘ thought a good deal ’ about the book — which , bearing in mind the Spanish use the word ‘ servile ’ in contrast to ‘ liberal ’ , I had called Liberal and Servile Society — but that his Board had agreed that in its present form , which was in any case fragmentary , it was insufficiently co-ordinated . |
| 13 | An extremely popular R-C filter , that in its ideal form provides total rejection at the designed rejection frequency , is the twin-T filter shown in figure 8.10(a) . |
| 14 | The new remit brings to the fore locally many of the larger issues about the UDCs that in its original form had been relatively irrelevant to the operation of MDC . |
| 15 | This is condemnation indeed , but more crucial is the circumstance that in its diminished state , criminal law remains for some students the first impression of serious legal study . |
| 16 | ‘ What is remarkable about it is that in its own way and by its own route it struggles after the same message as Christ . ’ |
| 17 | It might finally be observed that in its short life , Article 100A , which derogates from Article 100 by allowing the Council to act by qualified majority in co-operation with the European Parliament in order to complete the internal market , has already been used to anticipate new competences expressly recognized in the Maastricht amendments : two of these relate to the encouragement of ‘ trans-European networks ’ and measures in the sphere of energy , yet Article 100A had already been used to enact Council Directive 90/547 on the transit of electricity through transmission grids and Council Directive 91/287 on the transit of natural gas through grids . |
| 18 | Nevertheless , I believe that in its veiled way , the report is a very proper indictment of the drama scene — as it was perceived by these three sharp young people in 1974–75 . |
| 19 | But Commissioner Ripa di Meana argues that in its reworked form , the directive struck a good balance between the need to set high safety standards , while avoiding unjustifiable costs for Europe 's chemical industry . |
| 20 | Hailey 's reservations about Indirect Rule were based purely upon the practical consideration that in its dogmatic insistence on working only through the authentic traditional leadership it excluded other , possibly more effective , methods of securing the essential ‘ degree of acquiescence ’ in British rule . |
| 21 | It is important to remember that in their negative form ( i.e. combined with ‘ not ’ ) they never have the weak pronunciation , and some ( e.g. ‘ do n't ’ , ‘ ca n't ’ ) have different vowels from their non-negative strong forms . |
| 22 | Tumin concludes that in their enthusiastic search for the positive functions of stratification , the functionalists have tended to ignore or play down its many dysfunctions . |
| 23 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |
| 24 | I then covered the tank completely ( newspapers were used ) as according to my information Cardinal tetras are ‘ dark spawners ’ , meaning that in their natural biotope spawning takes place during the night in low light intensities . |
| 25 | This was chiefly at the behest of the Home Office who , according to Dorothy Hardisty , ‘ urged that in their own interest [ Jewish children ] should not all be placed in cities like London or Leeds where they would form a conspicuous Jewish enclave ’ . |
| 26 | For , to conceal the fact that in her utter astonishment she was looking ready to drop , Naylor moved his chair closer to her and drew her attention by planting a light and loving kiss on her cheek . |
| 27 | She knew he 'd worked for Bonanza , and the chances were that in her nervous condition she would n't question his appearance . |
| 28 | And after — what ? — fifteen , twenty years , there was that in her altered manner that showed she could still regard him with affection . |
| 29 | We are delighted that in her new capacity Jill will have a continuing relationship with FYT 's public relations and funding needs . |
| 30 | It seemed to him that in her gentle gaze there was more than a hint of despair , and it grieved him . |