Example sentences of "[vb base] in a [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | each the same sort of components , the same components are each colour say in a red individual they 'd all be pinky red colours and in a blue individual they 'd all be a blue colour |
2 | This may not seem much in terms of Hong Kong 's caseload of more tha 40,000 Vietnamese , but set in a historical context it is an achievement . |
3 | No they 're not gon na exploit their own workers but surely the , the , the whole idea of the build up towards land reform is that you are making , I mean in a Marxist sense it 's the only way in which you can do it is , is you make progress through conflict . |
4 | ( I guess in an ecumenical setting it depends where you are coming from ! ) |
5 | Without this single find in a remote country we should only have doubtful knowledge , from some remarks in Herodotus , of archaic decorative metal-work on this scale . |
6 | Every time you indulge in an habitual act you bind yourself in with the others . |
7 | However , the content through which these mathematical skills are taught has a set of messages all of its own and because we live in a capitalist society we can easily be unaware of these messages — about the exploitation of labour , the sexism , the inequalities based on racism and social class — that are all a part of the ideology of capitalism . |
8 | If you live in a medium-risk area you stand a one in 35 chance of being burgled in any year . |
9 | If we live in a free society we can not carry out experiments on the real world so it would not be possible to go ahead and build the road just to see what would happen . |
10 | I think in a democratic society we restrict the security services and that gives the advantage to the terrorists , ’ he said . |
11 | Arthur Scargill put it that ‘ Whilst we exist in a capitalist society we have to extract from that society the highest possible reward for the labour power that we sell , whilst at the same time trying to change the society . ’ |
12 | When I work in a particular area I want to know why a landscape looks as it does . |