Example sentences of "[subord] in the [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used a small spray of birds-foot trefoil , and although in the finished picture it seems as though it has been pressed just as it was picked , in fact the majority of the piece was dismantled for pressing and reassembled for the picture . |
| 2 | For example , although in the last chapter I advocated a policy of not hoarding , there are certain exceptions . |
| 3 | Even in the first year , when fewer than a third of Leeds primary schools were involved in PNP , this requirement accounted for 760 teacher-days ; but from year to year , as more and more schools became involved and as roles proliferated , the investment of time increased until in the fourth year it stood at 2,035 teacher-days . |
| 4 | In the next verse you hum instead of singing ‘ shoulders ’ until in the fourth verse you are humming all the way to the last two lines . |
| 5 | She has said nothing of this to me , and as her father I really ought to know , I think , what she , and you , propose to do , even if in the modern fashion you do not choose to ask me for my blessing . ’ |
| 6 | It would be less passive , but still a form of projection , if in the above illustration I were to add , ‘ And doctors … if you would n't mind making notes … to help our discussion later ’ . |
| 7 | I just feel that you know , if you if in the seventh year they get the opinion that you work in school and you do nowt out of school come ninth year , tenth year , eleventh year you ai n't gon na change it ! |
| 8 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 9 | Well when , that 's what I said to , er Paula people should always go to that village shop because in the long run I know it might cost you more , but the hassle and everything , the only thing is they have n't got the variety |
| 10 | That 's the bit that people fe find a bit hard to er to accept because in the real world it does n't actually happen because there 's always some other force like air resistance , friction , road resistance from your tyres and , and it grad it always stops eventually . |
| 11 | Lawrence 's masquerade of adjustment involves a projection of his own fears , anxieties , and neurosis which , in the Swift/Celia case , is especially revealing because in the same breath he consciously repudiates the scapegoating process which partly comprises that projection ( pp. 303 — 4 ) . |
| 12 | He was n't on the piano in this intermission because in the next act they were using the orchestra pit as part of the scenery . |
| 13 | It is , though , usual to distinguish between electrostatics and magnetostatics ; in the former case the variables are p , E , and D , whereas in the latter case they are J , H , and B. |
| 14 | There are culturally determined practices related to eye contact , for example certain aborigines , to be polite , do not look into each other 's eyes as they talk , whereas in the Western world it is polite to maintain eye contact during conversation . |
| 15 | In this case , however , methodological issues are tackled from a largely user standpoint , whereas in the previous part they were viewed as substantive problems in their own right . |
| 16 | Canonisation of artists has exploded : whereas in the last century you worshipped either Rubens or Botticelli , depending on your aesthetic credo , now it is legitimate to worship Gerome as well as Manet , while putting them on the same altar as living legends like Schnabel , Kiefer and Koons . |
| 17 | In this section , we will use weighting factors , whereas in the next section we shall describe a different , and more radical , approach . |
| 18 | In Japan it will be to the particular company , while in the Arab world it is the family which is the key to social , business and over-arching structures . |
| 19 | Both evolved a stable set of industrial relations , but while in the latter case it was achieved within the context of increasing output , the industry in Scotland was characterised by declining output and productivity and eventual collapse of the traditional spinning and weaving branches . |
| 20 | The choice between searching for the least or most distant neighbours may depend on the experimental ( or even presentational ) needs because in the former case the algorithm finds more detailed and possibly informationally redundant order of probes , while in the latter case it finds a minimal set of probes connected by clones spanning large regions of the genome . |
| 21 | She was holding a net curtain to one side with the gold-ringed fingers of one hand , while in the other hand she held to her mouth a long white ebony cigarette holder on which she drew constantly as she watched the visitor enter her neighbour 's house . |
| 22 | While in the fifteenth century it was rare to designate a man by the title ‘ shipowner ’ , this occupation became commoner in the sixteenth ( 100 ) . |
| 23 | And while in the short term it wo n't replace other forms of communication such as fax or telex , in time these will become as relevant to our business as semaphore or the carrier pigeon were hundreds of years ago . |
| 24 | In early modern England the proportion of solitary 65-year-olds was only 10 per cent , while in the mid-nineteenth century it came as low as 7.5 . |
| 25 | With oligarchy went federalism ( though the connection was not a necessary one , since in the fourth-century league we find democratic institutions ) . |
| 26 | Whilst in the Paralympic Village we read the quote from Mr Dick Palmer , of the British Olympic Association , ‘ justifying ’ their not allowing our athletes to wear ‘ their ’ logo . |
| 27 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 28 | Every scrap of understanding you can glean about the dynamics of bereavement will , of course , be valuable ; but never try simply to ‘ play it by the book ’ — this or any other , for in the long run it will be the way you use your heart , not your head , that will count most . |
| 29 | It is known that St. Leonard 's Priory had some academic function , for in the fourteenth century it was partly used as a study centre for young monks , possibly preparing them for their degree courses at Oxford . |
| 30 | I am not that man , he thought again , straightening up now , for in the next instant it seemed entirely necessary that he should not hide , should visibly walk to the front door and into his library . |