Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] were " in BNC.
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| 1 | The schedules proved to be acceptable , Their major drawback was length , perhaps inseparable from comprehensiveness , and the fact that in this exercise they were not integrated with normal agency practice and statutory six-monthly reviews . |
| 2 | S said that she needed the car to take her family to the airport and that in any case they were only abroad for one week out of two , so she would need the car again on her return . |
| 3 | When stories appear along the lines that in another life you were a peasant girl who starved to death during Ireland 's potato famine you know you 've arrived . |
| 4 | In one of these early lessons he was very lucky in his teacher ; Miss Public House took him home on one of his first nights — she who usually never could be bothered — and in one exhausting night Miss P taught him everything he knew about how to make love without getting hurt or hurting anybody ( remember that in those days we were still getting used to the idea and still elaborating our repertoires of what you could and could n't do , which was very hard for us , for me anyway , since we had spent so long trying to forget the very word could n't ) . |
| 5 | He went upstairs with his wife , and in two minutes they were asleep . |
| 6 | My mother said she thought the two qualities went together and Lili said they did n't : not necessarily , and in many cases they were mutually exclusive . |
| 7 | In effect this was a time when new worlds and new social structures were being forged ; and in many ways we were closer to the world of the underground than that of the moral majority , for we were walking the same ground and like many in the alternative society were ( somewhat unsystematically ) following an essential and perennial theme of history — that of man 's journey as ‘ hero ’ . |
| 8 | A number of rarer departures from Mendel 's laws were found , and in each case they were able to find a corresponding abnormality in the chromosomes , of precisely the kind required to explain the genetic findings . |
| 9 | In all three studies , the children were selected to be as representative as possible and in each case they were asked to perform exhaustive intelligence tests and behavioural exercises . |
| 10 | And in all probability you were n't alone , which means that either you fell , or were swept , out of a boat someone else has landed safely somewhere . ’ |
| 11 | And in that time you were in receipt of benefit were you ? |
| 12 | Some of the seeds hung like bells from the ends of the ferny frond , and in some species they were several centimetres long . |
| 13 | And in some cases they were referred to mental-health professionals like us . |
| 14 | The inspectorate , who came into most frequent contact with the diversities of local procedures , were consistently interested in ‘ modernising ’ the selection system , and in some ways they were the single group most responsible for altering local authority activities . |
| 15 | Everything people said about Kelly was supposition , nothing against him had ever been proved and in this country you were innocent until proven guilty . |
| 16 | They say a watched phone never rings and in this case they were right . |
| 17 | ‘ And these fellers used to go to sea like that ; and in these boats they were gone ten and twelve weeks , and they slept in little bunks , and they never changed their clothes the whole time . |
| 18 | A very tiny handful of totally unrepresentative films achieved a certain notoriety but were in general lost sight of as attention focused on better films and in any case they were to represent a dead-end rather than a way forward . |
| 19 | It is doubtful whether they would have been able to afford the elaborate system which replaced this piecemeal amateur effort , and in any case they were spared the necessity of any expenditure since the Empress Elizabeth seized their assets in 1747 , just as plans were in hand to construct the new line . |
| 20 | I was born in 1910 and my parents were therefore Victorian , and in those days you were told absolutely nothing . |
| 21 | The Romans were in some respects good engineers , as is evident from their sophisticated heating systems involving plumbed hot water and their networks of roads , but in other ways they were often surprisingly primitive . |
| 22 | There are some similarities to the New Confucian officials , of course — they dressed alike , in saffron robes , and had similar rituals and ceremonies — but in other ways they were completely different . ’ |
| 23 | But in other respects they were tribal hunters and food-gatherers . |
| 24 | These pressures I have described , both internal and external , invited change in almost every aspect of the curriculum , but in many respects they were also conflicting . |
| 25 | At first they operated alongside their toastrack predecessors , but in post-war years they were the only open cars in operation . |
| 26 | Sometimes they were responsible only for work directly connected with production , but in some cases they were responsible also for development work , drainage and ventilation . |
| 27 | The French proved to be a highly motivated and very brave addition to the ranks of the SAS , but in some ways they were a mixed blessing . |
| 28 | Now I think they have sep little tables now but in those days they were long , just long trestle tables . |
| 29 | But in those days they were called temples , and gods lived in them . |
| 30 | And the paternalistic traditions of the great landowners could be married relatively easily to the responsibilities of a Welfare State , because in many ways they were not really that different . |