Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | She closed her eyes and in three minutes she was asleep . |
2 | Also now I tend , as you 've probably come to realise I 've tended to include specific types of bonding arrangements as a functional group for example , I call a carbon carbon double bond , I call that a functional group for the simple reason that that arrangement of bonds dictates the principle properties of those compounds and in that context I 'm then using the word group a bit more liberally instead of saying it 's a group of atoms which dictate the properties I 'll say it 's a group of atoms or it 's a special grouping of electrons , which dictate the properties . |
3 | ‘ the notion of public interest has its limitations and in many cases it will not be served by dissemination of information about a person charged with a criminal offence or it must yield to the need to secure a fair trial for such a person . |
4 | We 'd known that in the mountains and in due course I was to see it myself from the other side of the fence . |
5 | It is covered by scales ; in small specimens , disk diameter c. 2.5 m , it is possible to distinguish the centrodorsal and primary plates but in larger specimens they become inconspicuous . |
6 | Normally I 'd also put out road blocks but in this case it 's already too late . ’ |
7 | All farms have rats and mice but in recent years they have been coming through from the barn into the house and getting into the furniture . |
8 | Moscovici has offered the examples of ‘ charisma ’ and ‘ split brain' and particularly psychoanalytic terms , in order to illustrate the passage from science to social representation : ‘ In each of these cases and in many others we are confronted with social representations that are created and shared by the members of our society as myths and ‘ common sense ’ were shared in the past ’ ( Moscovici , 1984 : 954 ) . |
9 | The Etruscans were great builders and in this respect they occupy a similar relationship to the Romans in the development of architecture as do the Pelasgic and Minoan peoples to the Greek . |
10 | Since we all experience all four life-positions at different times and in different situations we can at least increase the frequency of OKness . |
11 | The young people I know pay no attention to such dictates and in that sense they are far ahead of the politicians and the priests . |
12 | Actually , we were probably more technical than we are now , 'cos we had a year 's break between the two bands and in that time we lost all our talent , so we had to start again . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | " There are so many amazing , wonderful plants and in this garden they 're all very uncontrolled . " |
15 | JOAN Bassett has been the conductor of the Hadley Court Singers for over eight years and in that time she has welded this group of 45 singers based at Haddington into a flexible corporate whole motivated at all times by her own perceptive musicianship . |
16 | But he has been the Labour Party 's chosen candidate for almost two years and in that time he has worked hard to build up a high profile , assiduously interpreting official figures on unemployment , training and hospital waiting lists as well as taking on directors of newly-privatised monopolies . |
17 | In the Lepismatidae and Pterygota the hypopharynx is typically a simple lobe with a number of suspensory sclerites but in most Diptera it is a stylet-like structure pierced by the salivary canal and in some cases is used as a piercing organ . |
18 | The term de-industrialisation has several meanings but in this section it refers to the argument that public expenditure pulls human and capital resources out of the manufacturing sector of the economy . |
19 | Tritsch Tratsch lasts only about three minutes but in that time it does not waste a second . |
20 | They all like a dryish soil in full sun ; in rich conditions or in shady spots they tend to grow too lush and produce too few flowers . |
21 | A former schoolteacher and the wife of a Magee College lecturer , she was of pronounced left-wing sympathies and in later years she became Bernadette Devlin 's secretary in London . |
22 | ‘ Career breaks would enable women to choose to take five , six or seven years out to have their families but in that time they would be kept in touch , ’ said Miss Armstrong . |
23 | ‘ It was made in his atelier so I went over for the fittings and in those years I was very sure of myself . |
24 | Some computers will perform this function on receipt of a sequence of control characters and in this case you can use VDU or CHR$ to send the appropriate codes . |
25 | Always excellent on that yes , he 's a toad in some ways but in other ways he 's very good . |
26 | Left-inclined critics , whilst recognising that political inactivity can be construed as a measure of satisfaction and power for certain interests , nevertheless argue that this is not the case for all interests and in many cases they regard inactivity as symptomatic of a powerlessness and fatalism which renders any activity pointless . |
27 | stakes and in twenty-two hours I |
28 | When ingested by animals they accumulate in the blood and tissues unchanged or after minor oxidative alterations and in some cases they form the prosthetic group of a chromoprotein . |
29 | Trade union representatives should ensure they meet young people during their placements and in many cases they will take a pastoral responsibility , dealing with any problems they may face . |
30 | Usually , where subsidiaries have shares in issue which are not held by another company in the group they are reported in the consolidated financial statements within minority interests but in some cases they are required by the [ draft ] FRS to be reported within liabilities , that is , as debt . |