Example sentences of "in [adj] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 2 | Pollution was directly to blame for a decline in life expectancy from 70.4 years in 1964 to 69.3 years in 1990 , Yablokov claimed , adding that in some particularly polluted areas it had fallen to as low as 44 years . |
| 3 | In these decidedly digital times it is unusual to hear of a new high priced pickup cartridge intended to complement the very best turntable systems available . |
| 4 | President , Congress , the C E C does not lightly bring forward a motion which limits the right of appeal , but in these very special circumstances we feel it is both justified and necessary . |
| 5 | But it remained true , as a very experienced commentator pointed out , that " any man filled with an excessive desire of fortune or riches should abandon the calling of negotiator " , while the most successful English diplomat of the eighteenth century claimed that after fourteen years in several highly important posts he found himself £20,000 worse off . |