Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right sort of literary experience can be like a nuclear explosion , whereas the ‘ human expressiveness ’ that Scholes detects in the humblest graffito is more like the low-level radioactivity that is always present in the natural environment . |
| 2 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 3 | It 's true that this was not the only experience of ridicule that Ian faced in childhood . |
| 4 | Lorna Woodroffe gave them a great send off by defeating Mandy Wainwright ( Essex ) , the National 's 16 's champion , 6–3 , 6–4 , Wainwright gained revenge in the doubles , which was the only reverse that Woodroffe suffered in the series . |
| 5 | Then she remembered that her therapist had said something about that , had said that it was not for Camille that Scarlet grieved in expectation but for herself and her own pain , implying by her tone that it was really most foolish . |
| 6 | On the other hand , he points out that Devlin had in fact answered the question in the affirmative , and had justified this response by suggesting that , just as society can take steps to preserve itself against acts of treason , then so it may protect itself from attacks on established morality , for this too can threaten society 's existence . |
| 7 | This is approved on the understanding that RVA works in closer partnership with Christian Aid . |
| 8 | The general consensous is that Kelly playing in the right back birth , instead of his normal striker role , had a brilliant game outshining everyone . |
| 9 | Were these the woods , I wondered , that Kingsley had in mind when he wrote of Tom 's escape from Ellie 's little white bedroom ? |
| 10 | There is a curious sense in which the no-holds-barred style that Nizan adopted in this series of five articles , the last he ever wrote for Ce Soir , marked a return to the sectarian , aggressive , uncompromising Nizan of 1932 . |
| 11 | The ironic delight that Nizan displayed in presenting an extremist image of himself , whether it be as the arch-conservative , staunch defender of private property and the Church , or as the committed Bolshevik , reached its climax in late 1925 and early 1926 . |
| 12 | The tense relationship that Nizan discovered in Soviet society between alienating metaphysical anguish and political struggle and social construction is clearly reflected in his writings of this phase . |
| 13 | The Proconsul is not interested in the fact that Polycarp believes in the existence of another god . |
| 14 | It was with one of those credit insurers that Graydon met in January 1991 to take a fresh look at how corporate risk could be effectively measured and summarised . |
| 15 | Two factors that have influenced the way these have been developed are the principle that Davidson believes in , that ‘ what is measured gets done ’ , and his experiences in dealing with boards and managers at the coalface in retail banking . |
| 16 | In the ‘ timeless world of pure play ’ that Wilde creates in this comedy , young love triumphs in the end , improbably but hilariously , in spite of the confusion caused by the double lives of Jack and the Bunburying Algernon and the obstacles raised by the imperious Lady Bracknell . |
| 17 | Zak cursed and said that Pierre had in fact been going to knock Raoul to the ground at a slightly later rime , and now that would have to be changed . |
| 18 | Iran 's new leadership tended not to accord Moscow any particular credit for its rivalry with the ‘ Great Satan ’ , because of , first , the image of godlessness that Moscow enjoyed in Iran and , second , the presence of Soviet troops in neighbouring ( and predominantly persian-speaking ) Afghanistan . |
| 19 | She wished that Fernando had in fact made fiery , passionate and glorious love to her on that blanket , because at least her body would have been sated and that would have been something at the very least . |
| 20 | ‘ I felt that Ben panicked in our race in Seville , ’ Carl said , ‘ and if someone is with him at sixty metres then I think he is vulnerable . ’ |
| 21 | For much of the broadcast he was answering questions put by two interviewers , but as it was drawing to a close he suddenly began reading from a prepared text , declaring : " I warned in 1987 that Gorbachev has in his character an aspiration for absolute personal power . |
| 22 | These appear to be the assumptions that Musgrave had in mind : ‘ that the size distribution of income originating in various industries is the same [ or ] there is a random relationship between the distributional origin of expenditures on any particular product and the distributional destination of factor payments ’ ( Musgrave , et al. , 1964 , p. 201 ) . |
| 23 | Jacques Ogg 's immaculate performances are lively and sensitive : in this very different music , he plays with all the depth that Horszowski finds in Chopin . |
| 24 | He was reported to have said that Pakistan had in 1991 frozen production of highly enriched uranium , meeting one of the US demands , but would only destroy its weapons cores if India did the same . |
| 25 | Jenkins is observant , and knowledgeable on strategy , as when the reports on Gooch 's plans for containing Salim Malik , or draws one of the key post-match lessons that Pakistan paid in the end for their lack of a medium-pace bowler . |
| 26 | It is said that Freud wrote in a male-dominated society , and that his theory about sexuality , and about female sexuality in particular , reflects this in the male bias in his work . |
| 27 | The move follows the severe financial crisis that Nobel suffered in 1991 , caused by the near-collapse of its financial subsidiary , Gamlestaden . |
| 28 | For the scene when Benjamin is trying to get a room key , Nichols suggested that Dustin find in his life what was the most painful thing for him to do that had a sexual connotation , in a public way . |
| 29 | Again the cockerel , its cry a reminder to me — like the little cake that Proust dipped in his tea — that time is a complex thing , stronger than any tide , yet so fragile it can be traversed instantaneously on a familiar sound or smell . |
| 30 | Despite the fact that Hilton says in chapter ten of Mixed Life that the nobleman who is like Jacob married to Rachel and Leah will only become Israel " is verri contemplatif " ( 33.374 – 5 ) , if he is released from worldly responsibilites there is no ground for suggesting that he meant to rule out the possibility of the most profound kind of contemplative experience for the man in mixed life . |