Example sentences of "in that of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Lyons attempts to specify differences between ‘ language-systems ’ , such as in the example of English pronouns , or in that of the lack of status marking in English grammar , it becomes virtually impossible to keep the formal ‘ lexical and grammatical ’ features separate from the cultural context . |
| 2 | We confidently expect that an investigation of all other cases of sacred prohibition would lead to the same conclusion as in that of the horror of incest : that what is sacred was originally nothing other than the prolongation of the will of the primal father [ my italics ] . |
| 3 | This is done by high motivation and especially by immersing one 's own identity in that of the culture of the target language group . |
| 4 | He cited Madison ( Elliot 's Debates on the Federal Constitution ( 1876 ) , vol. 4 , p. 571 ) , at p. 271 : ‘ Some degree of abuse is inseparable from the proper use of every thing ; and in no instance is this more true than in that of the press . ’ |
| 5 | When the King fell ill he sent for Cranmer and died with his hand in that of the Archbishop . |
| 6 | There is no parallel in the home life of the hydrogen atom or even in that of the rabbit . |
| 7 | With our new spirit of centralization , both as an interim in the matter of teachers ' pay and conditions , and in that of the curriculum , and the more general removal of powers from Local Authorities , it may well be that we are imperceptibly going down the French road . |
| 8 | Whoever wrote the prologue saw the compilation of a law-code , rightly or wrongly , not in the context of earlier Roman legislation , which culminated in the Theodosian Code , but in that of the pronouncement of law by the law-men of small communities . |
| 9 | Among western historians , Raymond fisher has established the centrality of fur in the seventeenth-century Russian economy and , more recently , Janet Martin has demonstrated that control of the fur trade ( the ‘ Treasure of the Land of Darkness ’ ) was an essential ingredient in the political domination of a succession of mediaeval states , culminating in that of the Muscovite Tsardom . |
| 10 | I got to be working where they made the tools in that of the engineering shop and er I travelled on a Sunday from Nottingham to London and |