Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] ' [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was now preparing his speech to the Academy , due to meet in eight hours ' time at the behest of the military . |
| 2 | Now , with both Liverpool and Everton among the also-rans the two men find themselves in the ironic position of standing in each others ' way with the Premier League championship up for grabs . |
| 3 | His positioning helped Iain Dowie — the pair have tended to get in each others ' way on past occasions — and Dowie revelled in the extra space . |
| 4 | A staggering 52% — mostly females — said they expect rates to be higher in 12 months ' time with a consequent knock-on effect on mortgages . |
| 5 | To allow us to compare community care plans without appearing overly judgemental , and to structure our discussion of the part played by care programming in different authorities ' policies for mental health , the rest of this section employs the biological concepts of assimilation and adaptation . |
| 6 | and erm then we kept the babies in different toddlers ' homes at |
| 7 | ( Metric and Imperial measure comparison of all weapon sizes in this book are mathematical and do not take account of slight variations in different countries ' measurements of bore sizes , etc . ) |
| 8 | These are seen in the repetitions , checks , and expansions which are noted as so prominent in some parents ' speech by Brown ( Brown , Cazden and Bellugi , 1969 ) and Cross ( 1977 ) . |
| 9 | New Zealand won a place in the challengers ' final against Il Moro di Venezia in 10 days ' time by defeating France 's Ville de Paris in the penultimate semi-final race . |
| 10 | The extraordinary 19 per cent rise in real consumers ' spending between 1985 and 1988 was mainly due to the real wage rise of 14.1 per cent . |
| 11 | Worst of all there was very little interlocking between separate communes , a circumstance which was reflected in these peasants ' lack of political cohesiveness in the Dumas . |
| 12 | Exporter 's $10m receipt in three months ' time under a forward contract will be worth DM40.4m . |
| 13 | This means , for example , that , given the current spot yields , the market is expecting the yield on a one-year bond maturing in three years ' time to be 11.92 per cent . |
| 14 | There has been a steady increase in illegitimacy in the 1980s accompanied by a rise in unmarried parents ' applications to court for maintenance , custody and access . |
| 15 | Hewitt ( 1989 ) , for example , accepts that the speech of black adolescents shows influences from Creole but asserts that the same influences can be seen in white adolescents ' English in certain areas : the English of many black youngsters also itself displayed evidence of Creole influence beyond those stretches that might be plainly treated as switches . |
| 16 | These reports are a valuable aid to our Information Department in answering Members ' enquiries about resorts , and to the guide 's editor , Chris Gill , in compiling the new edition . |
| 17 | Our experience has been that where we are able to admit a person who is dementing we wonder after a couple of days — How did the relatives manage ? b The past 3 years have shown us the myth that exists in many professionals ' minds about relatives pushing an old person into care . |
| 18 | The examiner is not looking for technical perfection and certainly would not find it in many candidates ' answers to this question . |
| 19 | Meanwhile the opinions of newspaper proprietors played a disproportionate role in determining politicians ' views of what the public wanted . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking around in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loadsamoney ’ at me ’ |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't want to be walking down the street in ten years ' time with people shouting ‘ Loasdamoney ’ at me , ’ he says . |
| 23 | Still others , as in the case of unit , investment or property trusts , specialize in matching borrowers ' needs for long-term finance with lenders ' needs for paper assets denominated in small units which are readily saleable . |
| 24 | Was strauss really so ineffectual in five years ' correspondence with Hofmannsthal about the opera ? |
| 25 | The table shows the percentage of respondents that predicted dominance in five years ' time for each of seven operating systems listed in the table . |
| 26 | It 's a fairly safe bet that the ASB will be heavily criticised in five years ' time in any case ; that 's just a fact of life that standard-setters in the UK have to accept . |
| 27 | The Cabinet met on Tuesday 11 December and unanimously approved of Baldwin 's decision that the government meet Parliament in five weeks ' time on 15 January . |
| 28 | The result is a sharp jump in developing countries ' share of world output , to 34% from 18% on the old method . |
| 29 | Data on differential behaviour so obtained will be related to a number of factors , in particular teachers ' conceptions of their role vis-a-vis ethnic minority children and the ethnic composition of the nursery ( few or many minority children ) . |
| 30 | In twenty years ' work on the Mesozoic Brachiopoda , I have found plenty of relationships , but few if any evolving lineages . |