Example sentences of "that in some [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And , from my experience , I can only believe that in some measure , the courts are guilty of supporting the police in this attitude , for the sake of maintaining a status quo .
2 I suppose that in some recess of his mind he was recalling the old cliché about honours being handed out like lollipops , but the more I look at the sentence the less I understand what he was on about or why it was considered worthy of preserving in print .
3 In particular , purchase allows the possibility ( which borrowing rules out ) of in-house use of materials , which may be quite heavy ( although Brown also comments that in some university libraries 70% of the stock has remained unused over a three-year period ) .
4 It implies that in some way Wainwright himself was to blame for the outdatedness of some of his copious details .
5 Like the three kings in the story , O went home another way , feeling that in some way he had just been warned about something .
6 People do leave something of themselves behind in the houses they 've lived in , the Japanese recognize that in some way , I do n't know how .
7 He went out of the room , into the corridor and into his room and there he stood with his back to the door , his mouth wide , gasping at the air , still in fright , yet knowing that in some way he had emerged as if out of a deep canyon .
8 When they do n't have enough time , teachers know , even if they are fairly successful at not thinking about it , that in some way or other they are letting down their pupils , their colleagues or themselves .
9 To talk of ‘ the family in industrial society ’ implies , as we have noted , that in some way the family has changed with the process of industrialization .
10 Did this mean therefore that in some way France had forfeited her position in Indochina and was she to be treated as an opponent rather than an ally ?
11 Any claim that a certain state or government , regime or society is " really " or " in the last analysis democratic , however implausible it may seem , must involve the implication that in some way or other the government , regime or state in question serves or represents the people ; that the " real " will of the people is expressed through it , or that the people support it , even if this support is not necessarily demonstrated through such formalities as elections .
12 Perhaps a scientist suggests that in some way the bat 's ears are involved in its ability to avoid obstacles .
13 However , Mr. Philipson seeks in effect to draw a line down the centre of the Atlantic , and to suggest that in some way the supervisory operations of the Federal Reserve Board and those of the Bank of England are separate and unconnected .
14 The guardian ad litem takes the view that this decision is against the interests of the child and that in some way the inconvenience of the decision ought to be got round .
15 The way I have phrased this criterion implies that we should begin by looking for the biochemical and cellular changes and then on this basis seek the neurophysiological ones , and that in some way the neurophysiology is a mere incidental product of the biochemical and structural changes .
16 When Picasso painted the Demoiselles d'Avignon , those of his friends who were allowed to see it seem to have felt that in some way he had let them down .
17 I thought that in some way I was n't pleasing you .
18 ‘ I know that in some way I 've offended you , ’ she began .
19 He knew that in some way he had hurt her .
20 Earlier today the Secretary of State chided me and said that in some way I was an advocate of his system because I used the example of refuse collection and its cost to show that his system was simple and that we were in agreement on it .
21 She could not guess why or how , but she knew that in some way he was out to drive a wedge between herself and John .
22 The reasons are numerous — the recession , people 's awareness of drink/driving and perhaps a perception that in some way white spirits are healthier !
23 Erm are you saying then that erm you have actually quantified and and related that in some way to the the damage which has been evident through all of the statements from Harrogate Borough Council , to in fact the N Y C C and acknowledged by the N Y C of the environmental impact that this will have .
24 But he told Mr Brown : ‘ You are saying that in some way income-related benefits have to be adjusted for particular price rises that occur .
25 She knew he was being evasive and sensed that in some way he was trying to protect her .
26 People expect of a theory of origins that in some way or other it gives them some quite privileged and special position , and they feel undermined and threatened by a theory of origin which does n't say something really rather special about them .
27 We may well not choose to , but if we could be cool , calm and collected and stand back objectively , we might just find that in some conflict situations , to our surprise we may be the unwitting agent provocateur .
28 I felt that she may have either directly or indirectly encouraged him to make this decision for several reasons : she was suffering ; she knew that he was n't going to leave the hospital and she accepted that ; and she did n't like seeing him talk himself into more suffering for him and for her ; and I do n't think there 's any question that in some sense she must have gotten this across to him that he ought to give up much more than anyone else .
29 If so , we can allow that in some sense the value of the society is a matter of the values actualised in the distinct lives , while insisting that these values could only be actualised within just such a society .
30 We may note that although Moore thinks that in some sense what one should do is what looks most likely to be one 's duty in the sense of that which will produce the best consequences , it is unclear what meaning he can ascribe to this ‘ should ’ .
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