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 . |