Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj] [noun] they [am/are] " in BNC.
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1 | Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb . |
2 | Under permanently wet conditions , small mammal bone becomes soft and easily broken , and it has been found that small mammal bones preserved in wet caves become extensively broken , whereas in dry caves they are better preserved , but other factors may also modify such an assemblage . |
3 | People can feel impelled to find out what their confusion and disorientation of feeling is about , and while in this state they are vulnerable and need a great deal of skilled support . |
4 | whilst in some respects they are considered sinful and falling short of the pattern for our life as revealed in the Scripture , make the best moral sense of a situation which is , of itself , flawed . |
5 | The newspaper concluded : ‘ Soldiers might take time to consider whether in this attitude they are not just fixed in the past ’ ( The Daily Telegraph , 12.6.1986 ) . |