Example sentences of "[noun] in [pron] [adj] [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Composites : essentially manufacturers in their own right which stock and sell other manufacturers ' products . |
| 2 | This year 's Reith lecturer , Jacques Darras , is an outsider in his own culture who believes in a cross-cultural unity . |
| 3 | There 'd been a fault in her original logic which he 'd seized upon , but she was already beginning to see the fallacy . |
| 4 | Taking the example of an art nouveau dairy part of a Parade of shops in his idealised suburb he says : ‘ First it was new-fangled , then fashionable , then merely commonplace , then out-of-date , then ( to the sophisticated ) attractively ‘ period ’ . ’ |
| 5 | A court would interpret such words in their natural manner which is objective , i.e. the Secretary of State could not simply rely upon his own subjective beliefs , but would have to point to some evidence from which it could reasonably be inferred that , for example , Napoleon was a person of hostile origin . |
| 6 | The eyes of his beloved wife , are tear-reddened ( sic ) and she has come to the awful realisation of a gap in her waning life which will never be filled . |
| 7 | I saw an interesting industry in its own right which was changing and growing . |
| 8 | On sherds of a beaker found at Verulamium , Hercules is standing with his bow in his right hand which is thrust forward and presumably his left is drawing an arrow from a quiver , the lion skin and mask are draped over his outstretched arm ( fig. 14.36 ) . |
| 9 | Other people , with a mountain of blame in their inner world which they are afraid to express , may use their partner to do this for them . |
| 10 | The most critical one in some ways is a change in the structure of our lower jaw , so instead of having a lot of bones in our lower jaw we have just a single bone in our lower jaw , the dentory , which articulates with a bone called the scremosal , whereas in reptiles the quadrate and articular for the articulation and those bones have now got stuck into our inner ear and do some stuff about conducting sound impulses . |
| 11 | More happily , a colleague told me of a seventeen-year-old girl in his last parish who was cruelly told that she would be dead in a year . |
| 12 | Er , the other motion is of course pointing to so many of the changes that are taking place in our industrial society which prompt us into building a new union . |
| 13 | If it were made good , it would go a long way towards providing a justification for denying English the place in our educational system which we demand for it . |
| 14 | I have a 1982 Range Rover engine with Stromberg CD 175 carbs in my 1976 lightweight which I run on LPG or petrol . |
| 15 | As I gained confidence in their genuine goodwill I found that my sense of humour returned and I enjoyed making them laugh . |
| 16 | Having replied Yes with much confidence in his initial request I did not think I could take two steps to the rear , so I hastened to add that the job would take me some considerable time as ti would be my spare-time/spare-time job , consoled myself with the thought that it was the first time that I had made anything to be used in a church , so it would be a challenge . |
| 17 | When we use fractions in our everyday life they have to be a fraction of something . |
| 18 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 19 | What the Aplysia group needed was some process in their favoured animal which could be unequivocally recognized as long-term memory and whose circuitry could be studied in a similar manner to that they had so effectively employed with the short-term processes ; hence the attention paid in the early 1980s to finding an analogue of classical conditioning of the gill and siphon withdrawal reflex . |
| 20 | Triton , the largest satellite of Neptune , goes round the planet in the opposite direction to Neptune 's other moons , and may originally have been a small planet in its own right which was captured by Neptune 's gravity . |
| 21 | After many years in its free-standing position it now finds itself neatly stacked against the side of the grandstand . |
| 22 | The surgeon 's face appeared on a level with my own : ‘ We 've found a tumour in your spinal cord which we think is the cause of your troubles . ’ |
| 23 | That indicates what might happen next : a vote of no-confidence in Mr Yeltsin in his own parliament which , because that parliament is increasingly under the sway of Communist deputies , might pass . |
| 24 | I notice , for instance , the growing number of families in my own area who are involved in Eastern mysticism and the soft fringes of the occult . |
| 25 | One will be the doctor who has attended the person in their last illness who must see the body before completing the form , and another doctor who must also see the body . |
| 26 | As a person in her own right she takes up her destiny . |
| 27 | The married woman 's status is changing and from being a person in her own right she is becoming a chattel . |
| 28 | Applicants are attached to a voluntary business advisor in their own area who will assist them with their initial business plan . |
| 29 | If those primitive attitudes had n't also been the determining factor in my own fate I would have found it as ludicrous and pitiful as I do now . |
| 30 | The major changes in their economic position which began in the late nineteenth century and have lasted until the present , essentially are responsible for creating the dependence of younger people which now appears such a natural part of human life . |