Example sentences of "[noun] [Wh pn] [vb base] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The couple are totally accepted by Linda 's middle-aged parents who live in a terraced house in Darlington . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | People who overdose in a suicidal attempt may take one or several drugs but generally ingest at most one pack of each . |
| 7 | 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 ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | CAT is a donee-based tax in which the more people who share in a particular inheritance the lower the tax will be . |
| 13 | Rank Xerox also talks to non-competitors who excel in a particular function . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In Statement B this story line is applied to the police force to suggest that the young white working-class men who enter the force are to a large extent preselected , and irrespective of recruitment and training policies are likely to be authoritarian personality types who flourish in a para-military environment and ‘ have a hang-up about race ’ . |
| 17 | The path and the valley are actually a trap created by a flock of Harpies who nest in a small cave hidden among the rocks . |
| 18 | A farmer and his family who live in a wooden shack on their organic farm say they will lose their home and their livelihood if they are n't allowed to build a proper house . |