Example sentences of "in [adj] [coord] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 However , in turbulent and windy conditions it is always better to play safe and land into wind in another field , rather than to make a downwind landing .
2 The South therefore includes countries like Saudi Arabia with about 10m people and a GNP per capita of $12,230 per annum ; however , most of its income is derived from oil exports and investment income , and in economic and social terms it is still regarded as an underdeveloped country .
3 In this and other chapters we have discussed the various LEA-based and school-based strategies devised to secure the implementation of PNP .
4 ( 99 ) … in civil or criminal cases you must not put forward what you know to be a false case .
5 When Alfred Kinsey and his team went into the closet to examine graffiti in male and female lavatories they found that men wrote and drew more sexual graffiti than women .
6 ‘ I think that in six or seven months I 'll be much more competitive and able to do more justice to myself , ’ he said , adding that his current form in matches fell well below the standard he is reaching in practice .
7 During the nineteenth century the majority of the cattle of northern France were dairy breeds , whereas in central and southern areas they were draught animals used for work on smallholdings .
8 Indeed , sites which were generally successful often attracted organs of government to them , as was the case with the cities and major towns , but in these and other instances it is always difficult to distinguish the primary function once it has been overlaid or mixed with others .
9 In later and easier days he would certainly have studied mathematics at university , but instead left school when he was seventeen .
10 Then , to increase her income and her reputation , she plunged into business enterprises for which she was ill-equipped and inexperienced ; in three or four years she had lost most of her money and people refused to work for her , ‘ it was advised about the town … that neither man nor beast would serve the said creature ’ .
11 Where a title appeared as a class reader in three or more schools it was regarded as ‘ well-used ’ overall .
12 In mediaeval and earlier times it was commonly called " golds " or " ruddes " ; its present name is a corruption of the Anglo-Saxon merso-meagalla , marsh marigold .
13 The matrix unc is of very great importance , not only in studies of the intrinsic properties of A , but also in dynamical and other applications it is called the characteristic matrix of A.
14 But although the attitudinist agrees with the intuitionist that the meaning of ethical words can not be exhaustively analysed in naturalistic or metaphysical terms he takes a more positive view of the kinds of definition which Moore was so concerned to refute , for he sees them as examples of a particular type of definition , which has a legitimate place in discourse .
15 Though they produced some statuary in Classical and Hellenistic styles they were not copyists .
16 However in one or two generations it will be possible to change our appearance without affecting relationships , and the sky is not going to drop on us as a result . ’
17 We at Glenlola know we 've got warts — but in one or two areas we achieve extremely highly . ’
18 Things happen fast in a head-on attack and in two or three seconds we had passed directly over them .
19 Thus a certain brinkmanship has gone on , with a hospital discharging an elderly person home , ostensibly on trial and then refusing to re-admit when in two or three days it is clear the person can not cope .
20 Perhaps in two or three years we will have a convertible currency .
21 In two or three years it could be , believes Farr-Jones .
22 If the county championship was still there as it used to be , then I could pick only northern-based players and in two or three years I 'd have a very strong side . ’
23 So erm so give it a go anyway and see what happens erm and it 's no great hardship to have to y'know kind of do it in two or more sets I would n't have thought y'know it 'll it 'll probably still work .
24 If we are of a lazier disposition , the solution is simple and usually quite acceptable : if the same note will occur in two or more parts it can be omitted where it is least necessary and retained only in the principal part ( thus in Example 140 we would keep the E♭ only in the upper voice , to retain the melodic shape ) .
25 If it curves in positive and negative directions it is a compound curve .
26 I mean if you were n't in at whe when you were in your third and fourth year , it was a four year er training , er in third and fourth years you were allowed to stay out till ten o'clock at night .
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