Example sentences of "[that] in a [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just as Wunis Abdulhadi was able to opt out among friends , but knew that in a conflict he could not walk down the street without danger of attack from Zuwaya , so ‘ the obligation to fight ’ arose from people 's perception that their opponents would assume the worst possible case — — that everyone who had a theoretical obligation to fight would do so . |
| 2 | Oh , I 'll empty that in a minute I must admit I do n't fancy trying to do it , it 's going to be really cold and horrible . |
| 3 | The American conductor John Canarina also pointed out that in a performance he attended at Tanglewood in 1965 and in a recording he made with the Chicago Symphony , Munch made two cuts between figs. 110 and 128 ( in the Durand score ) . |
| 4 | Many have been taught that in a relationship they have no right to make demands on a partner ; to say clearly what they want may lose his affection . |
| 5 | Yet investors were so shocked that in a day they knocked $13.4 billion off the value of the company . |
| 6 | The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery . |
| 7 | And I suppose you could say that in a way it it worked . |
| 8 | Charity agreed coolly that in a way she supposed it was . |
| 9 | Strange that in a way he would like to be her friend even more than her lover . |
| 10 | So that in a sense we have all been clipping , fleaing , and paring . |
| 11 | Tolkien , of course , being a Christian , did in absolute fact believe that in the end all things would end happily , that in a sense they already had — a belief he shared with Dante , and a matter of faith beyond argument . |
| 12 | I feel so close to God , so inspired by His Spirit that in a sense I am God . |
| 13 | The bright solar surface is made up of gas at reasonably high pressure , so that in a spectroscope it yields a rainbow . |
| 14 | Jessop argues that this is highly unlikely and that in a crisis we can not say in advance whether the state — now divorced from any one-to-one relationship with the ruling class — will assist capital , labour or ( as seems to be the perennial case in Britain ) pursue policies to the mutual ruin of the contending classes . |
| 15 | You may think that in a democracy you too can flick idly through ice-screws and ropes , but the moment you prod anything with an inquisitive finger , an assistant will leap on you with a quiz as to your standard of rock-climbing . |