Example sentences of "[coord] in the [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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1 | Since October 1989 teachers have been delivering the first stages of a new national curriculum ; and in the early summer they will start testing ( sorry , assessing ) all seven-year-olds on the three core disciplines : mathematics , English and science . |
2 | Such portraits were far removed , in appearance and in the moral authority they were intended to convey , from contemporary images of the Macedonian kings who then ruled the Hellenistic world : royal portraits suggested the physical attractions and hopes of youth . |
3 | However as regards 40% of the subjects examined the correlations were not significant and in the remaining subjects they were significant but low . |
4 | Raynor made a warning movement , but the creature was before him , and in the uncertain light they could see the gleam of moonlight on bare sinewy thighs , which quivered with strength and intent to spring … |
5 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
6 | Forest fans gave it to that slag Clough and in the long run they got a bitter reward . |
7 | They have no chance of winning the title this season and in the long term they 'll struggle to win the Premier League because they ca n't compete with Blackburn , Arsenal , Leeds and Manchester United … not only on the playing field but on the financial front . |
8 | Resident Simon Halliwell says ‘ This place is a gift for a person with a big ego and a big wallet and in the long term they wo n't be of any use to the island . ’ |
9 | Students follow a general course in their first year , and in the final year they select one of three specialist areas of study . |
10 | When Harold Smith , the brother of F.E. , was asked for advice in organization by Huddersfield Unionists , he delivered them a lecture on Liverpool methods , and in the following year they elected F.E. Smith as their President to carry through reforms that would make Huddersfield like Liverpool . |
11 | During this three-year period they applied two dressings of farmyard manure and in the intervening year they applied an indigenous legume crop as green manure . |
12 | There was a final , violent crash of thunder , and in the bright light they saw that the tree had been torn in half by the lightning . |
13 | Many of the leaders of the industry were already earning salaries of £4000 — £6000 per annum and in the larger companies they could earn more . |
14 | ‘ So again Kingfishers , when they catch a fish , always beat it until it is killed ; and in the Zoological Gardens they always beat the raw meat , with which they are sometimes fed , before devouring it ’ — Charles Darwin : The Expression of the Emotions in Man & Animals |
15 | The people in in , in districts like that , they seem to be perennially voting , forever voting and in the blank year they 're voting for county council elections . |
16 | Mayer Amschel Rothschild built Mentmore , Alfred Rothschild built Halton House , Lionel Rothschild rebuilt Tring , and Ferdinand built Waddesdon , all on the most spectacular scale and in the wildest styles they could muster . |
17 | Success rates among the bottom band were reduced to 30–40 per cent and in the top band they ranged from 65–80 per cent . |
18 | No one had ever seen a bride or groom walk to their wedding ; even the very poor found a car for that day and in the old days they had gone by trap or sidecar . |
19 | The level of SR activity declined sharply and in the pre-war period they took less advantage than did the SDs of the opportunities for legal activity . |
20 | I find them all delightful in the first and second year , something happens between the second year and the fourth year , and in the fourth year they seem to have lost interest in academic things . |
21 | By 1815 , a brief postwar upsurge in trade had been and gone and in the same year they went bankrupt . |
22 | Swindon could have made double figures … with a little more accuracy and determination … but in the second half they eased back … the hard work had been done … |
23 | Six Finger Satellite might look unpleasantly like a '90s misappropriation of Devo , but in the dressed-down flesh they are a groovesome hardcore update of Wire with a head honcho given to lurching about like an adolescent , erm , Lurch . |
24 | So , themes of nationalism , self-identity , industrial power , anti-intellectualism and xenophobia had all featured in working-class rhetoric , but in the postwar period they derived particular effectivity by being reworked into a unified discourse of labourism . |
25 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
26 | Mick and Paddy had been well briefed on most things , but in the last-minute rush they were not given full details of my self-made code of conduct . |
27 | Agrarian , ethnic , and religious influences will be examined here , but in the post-revolutionary situation they all had negative rather than active political influence on the conduct of high politics . |
28 | Our ships may be small , Mr. Mottram , but in the old days they were liners — that is , they made regular , scheduled runs from various ports on the Continent to the United Kingdom . |
29 | Ah ha , but in the old days they used to have |
30 | But in the wrong hands they are as lethal a weapon as a gun . |