Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harsher penalties in particular could help foster a tough , ‘ macho ’ criminal self-image in the young men who predominate in the criminal statistics . |
| 2 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 3 | It did not so much contest with the establishment as succeed in areas like the mining districts of Cornwall , Kingswood and around Newcastle , where there was no contest in the sprawling villages which were growing out of the reach of a moribund parish structure . |
| 4 | Most conspicuous is the practice of placing large rhomboids in the rectangular panels which lie adjacent to a central square — in two panels ( e.g. pls. 23 , 13 , and 11 ) or possibly in all four ( e.g. pI . |
| 5 | But Rush , who has watched Liverpool concede 11 goals in the three games he 's missed with a groin strain , insists : ‘ I 'm not interested in breaking records at the moment . |
| 6 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 7 | He will be enmeshed for his own good in the electric wires which bring with them life-giving energy to make the farm fertile . |
| 8 | This fact must be continually borne in mind in the following pages which are concerned first with the decline and then with the tentative , uneven , but ultimately decisive revival of the relationship with the United States . |
| 9 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 10 | The Colne Valley Divisional Labour Party was formed in June 1917 , the Leeds City Labour Party reorganized itself in April and May 1918 , and promoted the formation of constituency parties in the six divisions which made up Leeds , while constituency parties were formed for all four of the Bradford seats in April 1919 . |
| 11 | These boundaries are also obtained from reference space excursions and can thus cause uncertainty in the spatial relationships which need to be checked at a lower local level . |
| 12 | Just as there is a break in the four volumes which constitute the Omnibus , Thru being in many respects a new departure , so the final volume of the Quartet breaks with the technological preoccupations of the first three novels . |
| 13 | The history teacher adopting an evidence based approach will regularly use document sources in the classroom , but there can be an added advantage in looking at relevant documents or pictures in the historic surroundings themselves . |
| 14 | Losses in the three campaigns which had already taken place meant that most of Russia 's rank-and-file soldiers had been recruited recently and that there were not enough officers to train them . |
| 15 | In a sense , Richard consolidated the supremacy of the Christian cavalry which El Cid had established over Islam in Spain and he proved this to great effect in the running battles which followed the siege of Acre . |
| 16 | But that was the first case of that absolute determination which he was to use to great effect in the later films I did with him . ’ |
| 17 | There were no cinemas or pubs or dances so that we were forced to find pleasure in the ordinary things which surrounded us , the sky and books and the changing seasons . |
| 18 | She was also asked to keep a diary of her week , monitoring the extent of her sense of achievement and pleasure in the various situations she was in . |
| 19 | Chandrasekhar and Xanthopoulos ( 1988 ) have also considered perturbations in the initial regions which contain the approaching waves . |
| 20 | The area of study in the social sciences which has gone under the name of anthropology in English-speaking countries has traditionally concentrated on primitive peoples . |
| 21 | The speech of Lord Lowry , with which the other members of their Lordships ' House agreed , is a salutary reminder that the protection from action in the ordinary courts which is conferred on local authorities and others by the rule in O'Reilly v. Mackman must not be carried too far . |
| 22 | Carroll House was the second Italian-owned winner of the Arc in the two years it has been sponsored by the Italian hotel chain Ciga . |
| 23 | Many Serbs fled from the advancing Turks and settled north of the Sava in the Hungarian-held lands which came to be known as Vojvodina . |
| 24 | The proposals would undermine the principal effect of removing the ‘ subject to ’ opinion , which is to encourage better reporting of uncertainties in the financial statements themselves . |
| 25 | They chose Ian Botham , their young hero — he was then twenty-four — who had already performed great deeds in the twenty-five Tests he had so far played . |
| 26 | From my experiences in the Occupied Countries I could tell she was starved . |
| 27 | The punchcards in the basic packs which are marked for colour changing are for manual yarn changing , where it is the pattern that is intended to change ; so these wo n't work with the colour changer either . |
| 28 | His release is a victory for those elements in the armed forces who reject even their fellow officers ' professional criticism of the Falklands campaign and argue that General Galtieri deserved a statue , not a prison sentence , for his actions . |
| 29 | ‘ They are great pals , the prince enjoys her company and he has found her of great help in the recent troubles he has had at home . |
| 30 | Given that background , my hon. Friend is right in saying that — as we have often commented — the Israelis ought to halt the policy of establishing settlements in the occupied terrorities which is provocative and , in our view , illegal . |