Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [prep] [Wh det] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This pivotal role is much more obvious in matriarchical societies in which it is accepted that the mother or grandmother must make the final decision about such expenditures . |
| 2 | The Opposition parties have 20 days in each session in which they can select the topic for debate . |
| 3 | Today 's objective is to focus on its core chemical operations groups such as adhesives and paints and to be among the leaders in each business in which it operates . |
| 4 | She still , after all these years , did not know , and one hand clenched in involuntary anguish at what she thought of as her intolerable betrayal of her brother . |
| 5 | There lurked in his character , as with all the best Welshmen , an element of Dylan Thomas 's ‘ No Good Boyo ’ , and his conversation was designed to provoke , particularly in political matters about which he felt strongly |
| 6 | There lurked in his character , as with all the best Welshmen , an element of Dylan Thomas 's ‘ No Good Boyo ’ , and his conversation was designed to provoke , particularly in political matters about which he felt strongly . |
| 7 | The idea is that one does not really accept a universal rule unless an imaginative attempt to put oneself in the place of everyone affected still leaves one happy with it , for only so does one accept the prescription that the action should be done in that case in which it would be oneself rather than the other who was in such a place . |
| 8 | Later cases have also insisted that if an employee is to be prevented from working in that area in which he has gained great expertise then the covenant is unlikely to be upheld . |
| 9 | There is a perception amongst informed people in the community that there may well be a shortage of long stay beds in Leicestershire and you do need to bear in mind that the National Health Service is increasingly going down the road of not keeping people in hospitals longer than they have to because hospitals are perceived as being very , a very expensive way of providing beds and you have to take that into account because that 's a fairly clear national policy and you are likely to see an acceleration in that process from what I read in the national press . |
| 10 | Sadly , Maastricht represents the third occasion in half a century on which Britain has been given the chance to face its European future and , I regret to say , the third occasion in that time on which we have chosen to seek refuge in the past . |
| 11 | Politicians and administrators were ill-equipped to handle the problems of working men caught up in bloody enterprise for which they were not responsible . |
| 12 | The multiplicity of utterance meanings does not mean that any linguistic expression can mean anything at all in complete disregard of what it means as a sentence . |
| 13 | People often have an underlying doubt about falling in and dislike not being in complete control over what they are doing . |
| 14 | My second 's in BROWN COAT for which I 'm renowned . |
| 15 | We thus engage in cultural confrontations in which we suddenly perceive how our vision is clouded and distorted by hidden assumptions that we did not know we entertained . |
| 16 | This is in direct contrast to what we might expect to follow according to the inductivist view , namely , that in order to establish the truth of some problematic observation statement we appeal to more secure observation statements , and perhaps laws derived inductively from them , but not to theory . |
| 17 | Other motivations may pull out of line this relationship between assuming and asking ; but at its purest , faith is strong or weak , advances or retreats in direct proportion to what it assumes . |
| 18 | Those who were quite recently converted began to take responsibility in different areas in which they had not seen a need prior to our departure . |
| 19 | In the arts it has become over the last century not the exception but almost the rule for the innovator at the crucial time of forming his style to find something in another culture from which he can learn , an influence not superficial , as in eighteenth century chinoiserie , but radical ( the Impressionists and the Japanese woodcut , Debussy and the Javanese gamelan , Frank Lloyd Wright and Japanese architecture , the Imagists and Japanese and Chinese poetry , the Cubists and African sculpture , Henry Moore and the Mexican Chac Mool , Brecht and Chinese theatre , Artaud and Balinese dance ) . |
| 20 | These two States have undertaken by treaty to accept the obligations contained in another treaty to which they are third parties , in recognition that any attempt at a lasting settlement is unlikely to succeed without their co-operation . |
| 21 | which provided the telephone lines in these trials , is now involved in another experiment in which it has teamed up with the CBS television network . |
| 22 | On his return to Trinidad in 1948 , Eric Williams almost immediately got involved in public appearances at which he gave his opinions on historical topics concerning the West Indies and while his work for the Caribbean Commission strictly forbade any political involvement , it did not prevent him from opening a window on the West Indian past . |
| 23 | This second stage is carried out in public speech to which we have been given the decoding key , and from our privileged perspective the success of the hypocrite has unfortunate consequences for the dupe . |
| 24 | And just to remind you what I was saying , if you 've just switched on , what I was just confirming with Colin er earlier , is that erm it 's slightly different in this competition to what we 've been accustomed to in the football league er this and last season , in as far as it 's not goals scored that 's important when you have the same number of points , it is goal difference . |
| 25 | Adultery has been a hanging matter — both in this and in the usual sense of the phrase — for the literature of the past , and perhaps it could be suggested that both senses may at times be presented to the mind by what Amis does with the subject , and that there is no striking difference in this respect between what he did in the Sixties and what he has done in the Eighties . |
| 26 | IV Intelligence School who immediately made arrangements for a billet in nearby Linslade. from what he heard of the telephone conversation , Harold gathered that the billetor was unwilling to have a private soldier , and had to be persuaded that this particular specimen knew how to behave . |
| 27 | He also expressed the fear , however , that the very widespread and intense national feeling which the war had revealed might lead in some circumstances to what he called ‘ social imperialism ’ : the imperialism of a whole people . |
| 28 | This political landscape stood in some contrast to what I understood to be the quite exceptional role played by West Ham in the historical development of the Labour Party and the trade union and cooperative movements . |
| 29 | So there are educational erm resources erm as well as others and in my view one of the great gaps that 's starting er that 's growing and growing in the world is the difference between educational patterns in the more advanced world and that in some parts of what we normally call the Third World . |
| 30 | on other occasions , he would appear at society functions wearing a chunky-knit pullover and a pair of slacks — in defiant protest over what he might have termed ‘ the folly of fashion ’ ( if he 'd said anything about it ) . |