Example sentences of "that in [noun prp] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'ear , ’ Madame laughed as Ellie examined herself in a mirror hand-held by the assistant , ‘ that in London these new 'ats are lethal ! |
| 2 | Judge Richard Goldstone , the head of the inquiry , said that the MI documents showed that in December 1991 Roelf Meyer , then Minister of Defence , had ordered the dismissal of Barnard following hints of his activities in the press , although Meyer took no other action against Barnard or the senior SADF officers who had authorized his appointment . |
| 3 | It was a measure of how much the green political arena had changed that in December 1989 Jonathan Porritt , then Director of Friends of the Earth , was invited for talks at 10 Downing Street . |
| 4 | The background to the situation which I have described is that in December 1990 and January 1991 there had been an uprising in Somalia in the course of which the President , Siad Barre , had been overthrown . |
| 5 | The RF Central Bank announced on May 9 that in January-April 1992 , 143,100 million roubles were put into circulation — 1.6 times more than during the whole of 1991 . |
| 6 | Note : If we are to complete the list of known domestic creatures to which Gustave played host , we must record that in October 1842 he suffered an infestation of crab-lice . |
| 7 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 8 | Through Jacques , he reminded the committee that in October 1931 the then District committee had argued : |
| 9 | Unconfirmed reports claimed that in October 1989 Mladenov visited the Soviet leadership in Moscow and secured advance backing for his palace coup against Zhivkov [ see p. 37027 ] . |
| 10 | He was charged with " taking undue advantage of authority in favour of a third person " , it being alleged that in October 1989 he had authorized sending Zhivkov 's grandson Todor Slavkov to study in Switzerland for five years at the state 's expense . |
| 11 | So it was that in October 1976 , the Pistols signed to EMI Records . |
| 12 | In August 1864 , when Admiral ( Sir ) Henry Codrington [ q.v. ] sought a divorce from his wife on grounds of infidelity , the wife counter-claimed that in October 1856 he had attempted to rape Emily Faithfull , then a guest . |
| 13 | Mr Richard Aikens , QC , for the Independent , said that ironically the subject matter had now been held by the House of Lords not to have been confidential , in the sense that in October last year the Law Lords refused to grant permanent injunctions against the Observer and the Guardian , ruling in favour of freedom of speech . |
| 14 | In 1983 , research showed that in Britain 26 per cent of all adults were trying to lose weight , 35 per cent of all women . |
| 15 | The difference between the two countries is that in Britain such sources are primary sources , and in the United States , the primary source is the written document . |
| 16 | There is evidence that in Britain this epoch has now arrived . |
| 17 | We have already made the point that in Britain this seems unlikely . |
| 18 | Newman believes that in Britain these quasi-governmental and quasi-non-governmental bodies , estimates of which have ranged from a few hundred to a few thousand , depending on definitions , are not ‘ structurally integral to corporatism ’ but a significant domestic phenomenon which reinforces corporatist tendencies . |
| 19 | His explanation is not , as is often supposed , the fact that in Britain multi-employer agreements failed to determine actual earnings levels in the workplace , or that employers have come to prefer independent negotiations . |
| 20 | Instead , Sisson maintains that the real reason is that in Britain multi-employer bargaining has increasingly been found to be incapable of performing what employers regard as its major function , namely the neutralisation of the workplace from the activities of trade unions . |
| 21 | I regret that the seasonally adjusted figure went up by 700 to 121,600 last month , but I remind the hon. Gentleman that in January 1986 , the figure was over 170,000 . |
| 22 | Vital grain supplies due in from Siberia were so badly held up that in January 1922 the national Council of Labour and Defence sent there Felix Dzerzhinsky , the head of the secret police , and since April 1921 Commissar for Transport . |
| 23 | So confident was Sturt that a bountiful Garden of Eden existed somewhere in central Australia that in January 1843 he began to sue for funds for an expedition into the interior . |
| 24 | The Lords entered the fray in December with a strong preference for PR as a means of keeping both the Labour party and the Commons in check , so that in January 1918 there were disputes between the two houses as well as between and within the parties . |
| 25 | Health Secretary William Waldegrave told an NHS managers ' conference in London that in January long term waiting lists had been cut by thirty percent . |
| 26 | Mann considered these objective to be so important that in January 1897 he gave up the secretaryship of the Independent Labour Party which he had held since 1894 to devote himself to the continental agitation , especially in Rotterdam , Antwerp and Hamburg , which had been started in the previous year . |
| 27 | The company was enjoying a phase during which new products were constantly being introduced so that in January 1981 , partly to keep customers aware of the ever-expanding range and also to enlarge the buying circle , the company initiated twice yearly catalogues . |
| 28 | It was also alleged that in January 1989 Isaac Jesner , a Jarrad director , had indicated to David Jesner that Jarrad 's capital would be used to pay off Jesner 's debts . |
| 29 | The crisis leading to Lenihan 's dismissal arose in connection with reports that in January 1982 the Fianna Fáil leadership had attempted to persuade President Patrick Hillery by telephone to allow them to try to form a government without calling a general election . |
| 30 | You can see that in January this person weighed 9 st 8 lb ( 60.8 kg ) for eight days , 9 st 7 lb ( 60.3 kg ) for twelve days , 9 st 6 lb ( 59.9 kg ) for five days , 9 st 5 lb ( 59.4 kg ) for five days , and 9 st 4 lb ( 59.0 kg ) just once . |