Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Is it possible to summarize the relationships you find in a linear causal model ? |
| 2 | Such comparisons suggest a fixed set of symbols or rules which operate in a fixed way , whereas this is only partially true of language . |
| 3 | It allowed a maintained secondary school , or a primary school with over 300 pupils ( extended in 1990 to all primary schools ) , on the resolution of its governing body , with the consent of a majority of those parents who vote in a secret postal ballot , and with the approval of the Secretary of State , to opt out of LEA finance and control , and be given ‘ grant-maintained ’ status . |
| 4 | The couple are totally accepted by Linda 's middle-aged parents who live in a terraced house in Darlington . |
| 5 | Where these signs are not obvious , subtler discriminations can be made : Quebecois who refuse to understand anglophones who talk in a Canadian accent , will respond to anglophones who talk with a British or US intonation , as Flemings who claim not to understand French spoken with a Belgian accent , understand French French . |
| 6 | ‘ And four of those bloody years I spend in a bloody prison-camp — if you 'll pardon the expression . |
| 7 | The University of Edinburgh is essentially a university within a city , unlike many British universities which operate in a large ‘ single-campus ’ area . |
| 8 | ‘ The political stance adopted by a class at any given time will be i part a function of the structure of the political system as whole and the concrete possibilities which exist in a specific situation for the application of various kinds of class alliances ’ ( Roxborough 1979 : 82 ) . |
| 9 | Let me give you one or two specific examples , I 'm always interested , having been in a college for thirty five years in adult education , I 'm interested in the primary schools and I must admit I get more job satisfaction the moment we go in a primary schools than ever I had when I was in the college itself ! |
| 10 | Under the Bill introduced by Abse , these controls were not only maintained but extended , so that , in addition to the Army Act , section 66 , it would be possible to take proceedings under section 64 , with reference to ‘ officers who behave in a scandalous manner ’ ; or under section 69 of the Air Force Act , with reference to air force discipline . |
| 11 | Moreover , though he devotes several pages to a description of the work done in these oil refineries , Gallie does not address the question of whether the technology itself differs in the French as compared to the British plants , nor whether details of the work organisation itself differ in a non-random way between the two countries . |
| 12 | he added , ‘ I know that has meant taking younger men as lifeboat crew to withstand the battering they receive in a heavy sea . |
| 13 | He wanted to emphasize the new play 's connection with The Family Reunion : once again he was to deal with characters who live in a worn-out society , and have lost their way . |
| 14 | People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each . |
| 15 | Mm I mean er why do n't they do it on like the square , how big your house is because that way you could I know it 's not far when people who live in a great big old house do n't have to pay as much cos if this I mean Uncle Trevor and Aunty they 've got a massive great house have n't they ? |
| 16 | Frequently too , people who live in a particular geographic location combine together to form a pressure group if their neighbourhood has been earmarked by government for the siting of , for example , a new motorway or nuclear power station or the dumping of nuclear waste which is considered to constitute a substantial threat to their safety and health . |
| 17 | A newly elected collegium , it was announced on Sept. 16 , included " competent people who think in a modern way and who have stood the tests of the crisis " , according to a spokesman . |
| 18 | What the people who work in a local government planning office do is constrained by a further dominant ideology at some higher level of centrality . |
| 19 | People who work in a particular business tend to read the relevant trade and technical press , whether in the UK it be The Grocer , Marketing , Electronics Weekly , the British Baker , or whatever . |
| 20 | CAT is a donee-based tax in which the more people who share in a particular inheritance the lower the tax will be . |
| 21 | As an Inspector you work in a small team and operate from one of more than 20 offices in England , Scotland and Wales . |
| 22 | However , I can not get excited by them ( and that applies to the passion they generate in a sexual as well as a moralistic sense ) and would certainly not ever describe them as sublime . |
| 23 | Devise a recipe incorporating potatoes which shows what a valuable role they play in a healthy eating regime . |
| 24 | We shall go on improving education and training to guarantee that all our children have the basic knowledge and skills they need in a modern economy . |
| 25 | Clients will be allowed all the freedom they require in a flexible , tailor-made schedule . |
| 26 | However , there are a number of post-war schools of thought which lie in a direct line of descent and which continue a distinctive democratic elitist pattern of argument . |
| 27 | Rank Xerox also talks to non-competitors who excel in a particular function . |
| 28 | These ‘ happy homes ’ are meant to give old people a sense of dignity and worth , but in reality they live in a privatised world cut off from both family and the wider community . |
| 29 | Economic considerations are mediated through the minds of human beings who live in a social world , which means that the impact of economics is crucially conditioned by ideology — a notion which has been explored and expanded by the Marxist theorists to whom we now turn . |
| 30 | Meanwhile the ethereal life of Ranveer , Bubbles and Socks , an unworldly trio who react in a childlike way to every sling and arrow as if permanently looking for Nanny , starts to unravel when a new administrator takes over the game park with thinly veiled hostility towards his country 's nobility . |