Example sentences of "in that [adj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that final settlement he can be influenced by , without necessarily even remembering , every relevant experience throughout the whole of his life . |
| 2 | In that ascetic age he earned a strange renown for his childlessness ; it was attributed , rightly or wrongly , to celibacy , and this was regarded as a sign of virtue . |
| 3 | In that unhappy mood he went to Paris to meet the designer Balanchine had stipulated , Dorothea Tanning , who followed the surrealist manner she had previously applied to one of Balanchine 's own ballets , Night Shadow . |
| 4 | On February 6 , 1958 , Gregg saw many friends and team-mates die in that fateful crash which stunned the nation . |
| 5 | The discovery that he was still here , that his heart had found time , in that sinister cell he inhabited , to entrench itself in the obsessions of his lifetime , and that he believed himself to be in contact with the ghost of the dead king , were complications Huy could have done without . |
| 6 | Airtime goes beyond packing to offer general time management advice : ‘ Do n't , ’ it says , in that authoritative tone it likes to adopt , ‘ clutter your memory with non-consequential facts . ’ |
| 7 | This true story of a young Ayrshire doctor starts in that vast country we know as Russia , 275 years ago , during the reign of Czar Peter the Great . |
| 8 | Then display it in the nice rosewood frame above the mantelpiece in that new home you 're now too poor to furnish ? |
| 9 | and rise and fall about twelve feet , they tell you in that new book you 've got there , the rise and fall . |
| 10 | … You use the same phrase in a new context and embedded in that new context it acquires a completely different meaning . |
| 11 | It 's rather like DIY in that one day you may need a power saw to cut up some timber , the next a hand saw for some precision work . |
| 12 | And in that one house we used to do thirty thousand or more — we 'll call it thirty thousand — in three hangings . |
| 13 | However , the instruction manual , though extremely comprehensive , is written in that awful Americanese which makes similar pamphlets printed in Japan almost a pleasure to read ! |
| 14 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 15 | But rain has fallen here , too , in that arbitrary way which makes life so unpredictable . |
| 16 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 17 | Graveney insists that Hick should go back to basics , and remain in that classic position he is in at the start of the bowler 's run-up — to stand sideways-on , bat on the ground , knees slightly bent , feet about shoulder width apart , and head up and still with both eyes level . |
| 18 | In that endless moment she was truly a part of Rune , sharing his strength of mind and body , his former pain and his present pleasure . |
| 19 | Even in that scant garment he was very hot and sweaty . |
| 20 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 21 | In that six weeks they had become friends , and it was a very satisfying feeling . |
| 22 | It was only to teach her a little lesson that I 'd added some nail-varnish remover to the ephedrine in that nasal spray she carried around everywhere . |
| 23 | Well why ca n't she do that two weeks marking in that first week she needs to unwind ? |
| 24 | I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in . |
| 25 | ‘ Independent schools have great problems with control of pupils using illegal substances because our pupils are in that socio-economic group which makes them attractive to drug-pushers . ’ |
| 26 | This result can be interpreted in support of Frith 's contention , in that good readers who are poor spellers are those who do not have a good awareness of the relationships between sound and spelling . |
| 27 | Jonah Barrington , Britain 's squash-rackets hall-of-famer , has come up against the Pakistan sportsman 's competitive edge more than a few times down the years in that windowless torture-chamber which can be a squash court . |
| 28 | There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun . |
| 29 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 30 | In that frozen moment his advisor said , ‘ C'm on , you bloody fool . |