Example sentences of "in [adj] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1934 my father left his wife and two-year-old daughter in the north , and came to London . |
| 2 | George Wade then took over the studio of Sir J. Edgar Boehm [ q.v. ] and in 1891 his bust of I. J. Paderewski was so appreciated that 500 reproductions of it were ordered for the American market alone . |
| 3 | She needs to give in public and in private her full personal support to the Princess . |
| 4 | In 1838 his father inherited a small property in Ulverston in the Furness peninsula , Lancashire , and from there John attended King William 's College , Isle of Man . |
| 5 | One day when we were vacationing in Santa Fe in 1943 my daughter , Jennifer , who was then 3 , asked me why she could not see the picture I had just taken of her . |
| 6 | Finally , in 1948 my parents received from the Air Ministry a photograph of the grave at Tourlaville , a simple white cross bearing the name ‘ P/O T Atherton ’ . |
| 7 | When he retired in 1971 his manager , Mr Barrett said that he was the best digger driver they had ever had . |
| 8 | Organisms , then , are like vortices in that their structure is maintained by a flow of energy , but the complexity of that structure is controlled by stable replicating molecules . |
| 9 | Single-parent families , that is mothers , are blamed for continuing this process , producing a culture of dependency and poverty in that their children are said to grow up with poor interpersonal skills , low educational achievement , and lack of marketable skills . |
| 10 | All you can do is give them a bit of comfort in that their letters have been read . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , those participating in the programme have a common intellectual goal in that their primary concern is to understand rather than to develop . |
| 12 | Although prepared foods are very good there is a feeling that there may be some advantage to live foods in that their vitamins , minerals and so on have not been affected by any processing . |
| 13 | The DUC considered the seminar a success in that their one platform speaker , helped by contributions from the floor , made the seven pro-industry speakers look foolish . |
| 14 | But most of them can take solace in that their performances are n't being reflected in the results of late . |
| 15 | It was considered one of the advanced mills , advanced in that their employees worked only the ten-hour day and finished work at one o'clock on a Saturday . |
| 16 | Nationalised industries usually have an advantage against their ‘ sponsoring ’ ministry in that their management is more continuous than that of ministers and mandarins , but this was not the case for Citrine . |
| 17 | Some of its politicians were backward-looking in that their major objectives were to remedy inter-war problems . |
| 18 | Many quite fluent Dyirbal speakers simply represented a dead end in that their intuitions could not be accessed . |
| 19 | There are many cases of conversion of documents which are intrinsically valueless but have a value in that their possession confers rights on the holder . |
| 20 | With reference to Genette 's definition they are exceptional in that their object texts are not only other ‘ noble ’ works of literature but quotations from scholars , product labels , radio broadcasts , advertisements , propaganda slogans , and various other ‘ public texts ’ or textual objets trouvés . |
| 21 | Continuously varying traits differ from Mendel 's peas in that their variation is probably controlled by a large number of genes , and by environmental differences too . |
| 22 | To some extent , therefore , A level art/design classes offered by the schools are in competition with foundation courses offered by art colleges ; however , the two are not strictly comparable in that the former are considered by many to be less suitable as pre-entry training for higher level courses in that their diagnostic value is much less than that of foundation courses . |
| 23 | Most are basically uncoordinated in that their planning probably represents the outcome of good fortune or minimal management . |
| 24 | They 'll be saying , Do you remember a a big fat woman living in that their house , with a white apron running after us . |
| 25 | Down are going through something of an identity crisis in that their form fluctuates wildly from week to week . |
| 26 | Some ten per cent of theses in the present study are regarded as unproductive in that their authors failed to publish related papers ; the original theses were never consulted , and the theses have never been cited . |
| 27 | The advantage of this approach would be that it would enable a mixed economy to be operated i.e. some institutions be validated in the present way ; , others who were ‘ chartered ’ would not necessarily be accredited for all their courses in that their courses would be validated in the present ways . |
| 28 | There were two women with cholecystectomy who reported frequent urgency and had objective evidence of diarrhoea in that their estimated intestinal transit times were 20 and 18 hours . |
| 29 | The effect on the indigenous peoples has been debilitating in that their loss of faith in , for example , indigenous medicine has been combined with a realization of the ineffectiveness of western medicine in treating psychosomatic illness . |
| 30 | Although they are keywords , the names of pseudo variables such as PI , LOMEM , HIMEM , PAGE , TIME , etc , act as variables in that their names can form the first part of the name of another variable . |