Example sentences of "in [adj] [that] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in vain that she told herself he was a stranger , a man who had probably by now forgotten her . |
| 2 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |
| 3 | Judges confess in private that there are counsel now practising whom they can not understand . |
| 4 | The BBC 's coverage of the election caused great offence to Mr Major and senior Tories , who voiced concern in private that it wanted to see the return of a Labour government to safeguard its future . |
| 5 | The reason that has been given for saying that Halley 's attempt was serious , rather than merely placatory , is that he confessed in public that his efforts had not , after all , produced decisive results . |
| 6 | While exploiting the conquered territories France constantly proclaimed in public that it had come to Indochina on a " mission civilisatrice " to help the backward nation into the light of the twentieth century . |
| 7 | A week earlier , Michael Heseltine , whose challenge in the leadership election contest brought about her fall , had still been adamant in public that he would not stand against her . |
| 8 | It is in Anglo-Norman that we find the earliest evidence of the concept of fabliau in England , and it is appropriate , therefore , that our earliest English fabliau is labelled a " " fablel " " in an Anglo-Norman rubric . |
| 9 | In sure that there domestic problems do n't spill out across there borders . |
| 10 | Wright confessed : ‘ When the ball goes in like that it 's hard to contain yourself . |
| 11 | In short that I had caused pain . |
| 12 | What is required , Locke argues , is that the law of nature be embodied in a set of known and established laws that there be an ind in short that it 's not just up to the individual to state what the law of nature is in any particular case , you know , you 've got a set of known and established laws , you know , which do that . |
| 13 | It could only get worse for poor Mr Collins as room and meal materialised , but at least he acknowledged of the Cornish in general that they had , ‘ no propensity to jeer at strangers ’ . |
| 14 | But the form of that narcissism tells us more about men 's love of men : it is masculinity in general that they love , and there is " a contradictory corollary in the iconography of miners — it both suggests and suppresses sexuality . |
| 15 | Thus Burton concludes from his discussion of employment subsidies in general that they are |
| 16 | And with the help of all these er er pieces of equipment er we found in general that we were reaching a new standard of production , where we were increasing it er and we were able to bargain more strongly and more favourably on behalf of our members . |
| 17 | Now a group of major , highly competitive retailers seek to persuade the world in general that their opposition to Sunday trading stems from a desire to preserve the small shops sector . |
| 18 | it is a comment upon current government policy towards schools and education in general that one can find hardly anyone with a professional interest in education who does not have reservations about how it will work in practice . |
| 19 | It 's also good I think for , for cricket in general that he 's got a pitch that helps him a bit on the fifth day and that 's how it should be . |
| 20 | Well let's talk , let's talk a little bit about the personnel that you 've got on the City Council now and the kinds of services in general that you 're providing . |
| 21 | For , even if they knew in general that it was unlikely to be the case , they could not afford to take chances . |
| 22 | I underpainted some details in red that I wanted to see through it . |
| 23 | Notice in particular that we have not used , anywhere in our analysis , the " shape " of the tubes T and S , so we can expect a similar analysis to hold for all homoclinic orbits to the origin which occur in the Lorenz equations . |
| 24 | It is vital for lower-division players in particular that we rally round . ’ |
| 25 | Notice in particular that we set out the Keynesian theory more generally than we did the classical theory where we assumed no government and no foreign trade . |
| 26 | Calculating the changes under multilateral abandonment of protection requires some assumptions on world prices , in particular that they would rise by more than under unilateral action . |
| 27 | It has often been argued that girls in single-sex schools are likely to have higher educational achievements than girls in mixed schools , and in particular that they are more likely to do well in scientific subjects ( e.g. Department of Education and Science 1980 ; Steedman 1980 ) . |
| 28 | I am satisfied that the proposals for NHS trust status for the south Ayrshire group of hospitals also meet the criteria which I have outlined , and in particular that they will secure benefits for patients and an improved quality of service . |
| 29 | their own back benches in rural counties are kicking up so much in Somerset and Hampshire in particular that they 've had to back down . |
| 30 | Does he accept in particular that there is a problem involving students from Northern Ireland who have attended English universities and been recommended for further degrees and second awards , but are turned down because they are from Northern Ireland ? |