Example sentences of "in [det] [noun sg] [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hoffmann J. declared that in each case the beneficial interest in the property was owned by the bankrupt and his wife in equal shares and he made orders for possession and sale but , after considering the circumstances of the two wives and their children and , in particular , that the half shares to which they would be entitled would be insufficient for them to acquire other accommodation in the area and the educational problems of the children , imposed a provision for postponement until the youngest child in each case attained the age of sixteen . |
| 2 | In each case quoted the patient was either dying , in pain , had fallen out of bed , was bleeding or had suffered a heart attack . ’ |
| 3 | The permanent secretary in each ministry became the accounting officer responsible to the Treasury for the expenditure of the money allocated to his ministry . |
| 4 | The booksellers in that sense amplified the vogue enjoyed by Duck 's verse , and exploited it further by publishing other labouring poets . |
| 5 | Americans can now do a course in Madonna iconography , so the argument continues , but whatever the positive or negative aspects of her behaviour , the fact is she changed the rules for women ; if nothing else she showed that female sexuality was powerful , and in that sense transformed the possibilities for women in rock . |
| 6 | Suppose that national rules of a member state required that the sales managers of all companies marketing products in that state had the appropriate certificate of competence awarded by business schools in that state . |
| 7 | The Rev E P Tompson was the first Chairman of its Executive Committee and in that capacity led the work forward to the point at which it was accepted as the youth club arm of Scripture Union , and a member of the SU Council assumed the chair . |
| 8 | Bismarck 's reform in that country had the effect of increasing the industrial output of Germany . |
| 9 | The jury in that instance ordered the remaining defendants to pay $2.1bn in damages . |
| 10 | By 1532 his office rivalled that of the Privy Seal , and in that year began the greatest development of the Secretaryship , when Thomas Cromwell was appointed to the post . |
| 11 | As I have already made clear , the issue in that case concerned the second decision which the Secretary of State has to make , whether to release the prisoner at the end of his tariff period or to detain him in custody . |
| 12 | In that case shut the f*ck up and go report on something else ’ . |
| 13 | Whatever research still went on in that area remained the privilege of Tech-Green itself : unpublished and hidden . |
| 14 | However , the Article dealing with special remuneration drew a distinction between the Board and a committee of the Board so that as a matter of construction ‘ the Board ’ in that context meant the Board and not the committee . |
| 15 | As a result , not a house in that street escaped the cholera . |
| 16 | Everyone in that gymnasium heard the break as Charlie staggered against the ropes . |
| 17 | For only I and one other person in that courtroom knew the truth , knew that the hand which had dispatched William had been neither a female hand nor a male one , but the hand of a terrible neuter thing ! |
| 18 | We may now understand better , too , why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table ; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true ‘ dignity ’ is . |
| 19 | The project 's lack of a distinct identity in this school seemed the cause of some confusion . |
| 20 | Hypnosis in this case relieved the patient 's negative mind set and is in line with Dr Bach 's thesis that such mental states , for which he developed his flower remedies , could impair the body 's ability to heal itself . |
| 21 | The officer in this case addressed the defendant precisely in terms appropriate to the contingency which had arisen as indicated in the Metropolitan Police pro forma instructions which were current in May 1990 . |
| 22 | She was " roving ambassador " during the years 1950-54 in both President Truman 's and President Eisenhower 's terms of office , and in this capacity attended the Queen 's coronation in 1953 . |
| 23 | This enigmatic man — one reluctant to disclose his plans even to his closest associates and so often the military miscalculator — in this instance judged the French national character correctly : if the Germans attacked Verdun , the French would resist . |
| 24 | Well , if you want to sell houses , why have all the major building companies in this country announced the largest cuts in profits this decade ? |
| 25 | When this war broke out organised Labour in this country lost the initiative . |
| 26 | Before the BDDA annual conference of delegates we would have been willing to risk a small wager that by far the greater number of the deaf in this country found the word " dumb " obsolete , misleading , offensive and any other such adjective you care to mention . |
| 27 | In this Law shared the view of his party , but it would have been substantially the same without him . |
| 28 | In this way began the darkest chapter in the cat 's long association with mankind . |
| 29 | In showing capitalism and capitalist values to be the creation of a moment of history Marx negated the transcendental claim of capitalism to be the only possible natural system for civilized man , and in this way challenged the basic precepts of capitalism . |
| 30 | In addition the Senior Common Room prided itself on its Extraordinary Members , opening its doors to leading figures in the arts and industry , and in this way created the atmosphere , less of an educational institution than of one of London 's most interesting private clubs . |