Example sentences of "and in [det] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 Moreover , what we can know , such as our duties and obligations to each other and to God , is just what we need to know ; and in many other cases we have beliefs sufficiently well-founded for the purposes of our everyday life .
2 At that time , the mullahs were the country 's principal teachers and in many rural areas they had become considerable men of property , taxing the people and buying land for themselves .
3 ‘ Certainly , Cabannes did superbly at the back of the lineout today but he was a regular target and in all other areas I gave Back the edge .
4 And in all that time she 'd never heard from Jez , nor even from her parents .
5 They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened .
6 I have been using pastels for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased .
7 I have been using pasters for at least 30 years and in all that time I have never once seen a warning to this effect in either art books or on the many boxes of pastels that I have purchased .
8 I have been keeping tropical fish for around 20 years and in all that time I have always had not just one , but a number of aquaria .
9 I 've supported Leeds since I was 5 and in all that time I 've never once wished Leeds would lose a game , ever .
10 Ellie was now eighteen years old , and in all those years she had never travelled in a taxi-cab , nor had she ever been into the heart of Boston .
11 She felt as though she could n't get enough of him , and in that split instant she made her decision .
12 Timothy looked straight into Topaz 's eyes and in that split second she knew without doubt that he was aware of her love for Andrew .
13 There was clearly a close friendship between them , and the Office gives a moving account of his efficacy in curing her of some kind of fit : He came and found her mute , but when he had seated himself at her window and they had eaten together , it chanced that at the end of the dinner the recluse wished to sleep , and oppressed by slumber her head drooped towards the window where God 's saint , Richard , was reclining , and as she was leaning a litle on that same Richard , suddenly , with a vehement onslaught , such a grave vexation took her in her sleep that she seemed to wish to break the window of her house , and in that strong vexation she awoke , her speech was restored , and with great devotion she broke out into the words " Gloria tibi Domine " , and the blessed Richard completed the verse which she had begun .
14 Shakily Fernando eased away from her and in that terrible second she hesitated , fearing the rejection he had once threatened her with .
15 And in that one house we used to do thirty thousand or more — we 'll call it thirty thousand — in three hangings .
16 I laced my arms round his back , under his own arms , letting his face fall on mine , and in that awkward position I blew my own breath into him , not in the accepted way with him lying flat with most things in control , but into his open nostrils , into his flaccid mouth , into either or both at once , as fast as I could , trying to pump his chest in unison , to do what his own intercostal muscles had stopped doing , pulling his ribcage open for air to flow in .
17 On the other hand , if you went to the other end of the scale and in that same season you looked at all horses that were offered at precisely two to one on , then you 'll find that there were twenty two horses which were offered at those odds and fifteen of them won .
18 I mean I 've only got some figures here up to the twenty fourth of February , and in that particular week we sold about thirteen and a half thousand U K holidays , as against the week last year of about five and a half , so we 've obviously seen a fairly major growth in U K holidays , but , as I said , we spent about a hundred thousand pounds on promotion , so we 're very pleased with the uptake of business coming in .
19 And in that little book it said , If the firm provided space for bicycles or what have you they were responsible for them .
20 Their eyes met for a split second , bleak green against ice-blue , and in that fleeting moment she wanted to tell him the truth , she wanted to explain , repaint the picture that had been mistakenly built up .
21 Except the life has gone out of me and in some curious way I hardly care . ’
22 The dish contained something shiny and wobbly and pink with a cherry on it , and in some strange way it managed to look like something you would n't eat even if it was pushed on to your plate after a week 's starvation diet .
23 The contributors will largely be from the educational faculty at the University , and in this first programme I have with me Professor Tony Becher , who is Chairman of the Education Area .
24 Once it disappeared altogether , and although a fair degree of brightness remained in the sky , the land became very dark and in this pathless place it was not easy for Stephen to find his way .
25 ‘ The British have a long history of being inventive and in this current climate we are being inundated with new ideas , ’ says Richard Paine , marketing director of Inventalink , one of Britain 's biggest agencies which sells the ideas to commercial companies .
26 Nonetheless , it is always useful to have some general guidelines , and in this final chapter I have gathered together many of the points that , from my personal experience , are worth bearing in mind when embarking on such a project .
27 All I can say is that I failed , and in this particular case I regret that failure . ’
28 But Herschel 's equipment was not sensitive enough , and in this particular investigation he failed .
29 Porter has undoubtedly had a considerable impact upon corporate strategic thinking , and in this brief discussion it has been possible to present only the barest outlines of his ideas developed in two sizable books .
30 Obviously there is not a club atmosphere at Harlequins , and in most other sports they would be fined or disciplined for the unfair competition they are setting up in the league , both from the top and bottom sides .
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