Example sentences of "[conj] in [adj] [noun pl] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Platform weapons were set to allow nothing to rise more than a thousand kilometres from the surface of the world below — or in other words they had a killing range of about thirty-five thousand kilometres . |
| 2 | More analytically , pluralist methods might in theory uncover conspiracy by an elite by investigating observable decisions , and the fact that in various studies they did not find evidence of narrow conspiratorial elites led pluralist community power researchers to conclude that a more flexible competitive and open system prevailed . |
| 3 | It was encouraging that the wives saw themselves as having an increasing role to play and it was equally encouraging that in many cases they saw training courses as the best way of acquiring new skills and knowledge . |
| 4 | He also concluded that in most cases they had simply been wrong . |
| 5 | In April 1983 , teachers reported that in some areas they had not been paid for four months and 828 schools had been closed down . |
| 6 | He was astute enough to see that in some ways they shared the same experiences . |
| 7 | Cos in those days they did n't . |
| 8 | Follow they did , and in many departments they matched and even surpassed the later Sierra releases . |
| 9 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 10 | In 1850 therefore the deer were officially banished , and in five years they had all been killed off . |
| 11 | In 124 couples the female partners smoked cigarettes , and in 236 couples they did not . |
| 12 | er and in some villages they went a great deal further than they did in , in |
| 13 | But in latter days they came with a tank and they put it out and put it in a trailer you see but I just worked with bags when it was the first of it . |
| 14 | At Chesterfield Inlet , northern Canada , in these conditions , Savile and Calder ( 1952 ) found willow shrubs ( Salix spp. ) and dwarf birch Betula glandulosa growing only 15 cm high on open ground ; in the shelter of boulders the willows grew to 1 m or more , but in exposed areas they became completely prostrate , with horizontal laterals close to the ground . |
| 15 | Reference is often made to Britain 's honourable and proud tradition of welcoming refugees , but in those days they consisted mainly of persecuted individuals . |
| 16 | I saw that the wing commander engineering , who also was a pilot ( but in those days they did an engineering course as we had no Engineering Officers , at least I do not remember any ) opened his window in the office and climbed out . |
| 17 | But in later years they got a gig and it was far easier on the pony you see with a big heavy man riding a pony is awful tiresome on the pony you see . |
| 18 | The costs of community services to control sample members at both second and third assessments were considerably lower than those of the action samples , even though in both boroughs they increased during the year . |
| 19 | And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education . |