Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In cases of personal injury it has been seen that the courts generally take a broad view of the question of kind of damage and also of the degree of foreseeability necessary . |
| 2 | In cases of this sort we are really passing a moral judgement upon the law . |
| 3 | It did not work directly , but since the end of the war did coincide with a change in personnel at local level it was quite often the case that local authorities had new education officers at a time when they were eager to innovate . |
| 4 | In times of civil disturbance they were also called upon to help in maintaining the king 's peace , as when in June 1234 the foresters of fee of all the royal forests of England were commanded to aid the sheriffs in arresting the malefactors who were roaming over the countryside as a result of the disturbances created by the Earl Marshal and his adherents . |
| 5 | In times of economic difficulty it 's not only debt that causes problems . |
| 6 | In times of social upheaval we guard against anything that might make society fragment too precipitately and dangerously , and we try to take care that racist or intolerant literature is suppressed . |
| 7 | At times of high wages or low food prices , out-workers could opt for more leisure , but in times of slack trade they might well find themselves unable to get enough work to compensate for falling rates . |
| 8 | Thus , in times of slack demand it is not uncommon to find managements tightening up on industrial discipline . |
| 9 | Occasionally in times of dire need they may rouse a dragon from its centuries of slumber , but only their greatest heroes can aspire to ride such ferocious steeds . |
| 10 | Though some of these reasons are currently out of fashion in discussions of political authority I believe they all have their role to play , though some are more important in some societies than in others . |
| 11 | In areas of endemic haemonchosis it has often been observed that after the advent of a period of heavy rain the faecal worm egg counts of sheep infected with H. contortus drop sharply to near zero levels due to the expulsion of the major part of the adult worm burden . |
| 12 | I 've noticed that in sermons of any kind it is important not to state your hand too early , or too clearly . |
| 13 | But then , in matters of that sort it was always the same , and thinking of Charley , she began to cry . |
| 14 | In matters of this kind we are often considering a span of 15–20 years from the time when it is first apparent that an old person can not ‘ carry on as before ’ to the time of death . |
| 15 | It tells us about his pride , humour , fixation with the Royal Family , longing for justice : but in pieces of this sort he loses touch with his gifts . |
| 16 | In terms of financial intermediation it is only externally funded schemes that carry out an intermediary function , as the funds collected for future pension payments are invested in financial assets ( and a small proportion in real assets — property and works of art ) in order to earn a return on investments to be able to pay out future pensions , whereas in pay-as-you-go funds are merely transferred from present employees to present pensioners , with no financial intermediation taking place . |
| 17 | As Professor Duckham has pointed out , the combined mileage was not great until after 1790 ( up to then it was well under a thousand miles ) but in terms of strategic linking they were already beginning to turn the " golden key … to unlock the riches of the inland coalfields " . |
| 18 | They have the greatest reproductive success and in terms of Darwinian evolution it is Third World rapidly expanding populations which are enjoying the highest levels of reproductive success . |
| 19 | By Easter week it was clear to Richard that he was making no headway against a well-conducted defence and that in terms of political psychology it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success . |
| 20 | In terms of sheer size they are sometimes bigger than the countries in which they operate ; they are estimated to control over a quarter of world output ; and their ‘ inter-firm ’ shipments of goods from one country to another account for nearly one-third of recorded trade ’ . |
| 21 | I look as if I 've made an about-turn but in terms of simple logistics it 's getting itself out of all proportion . ’ |
| 22 | It 's paradoxical because often divorce law reforms thought of as favouring women and in circumspect that allows women to get away from an unreasonable husband and that kind of thing , it 's certainly true , but at the same time you have to notice that in terms of reproductive success it may benefit more er men more . |
| 23 | Part of Glass 's need to create may rest , paradoxically , on his feeling that ‘ in terms of social change we , as artists , are powerless . ’ |
| 24 | Yes , in terms of this definition it has to be because that 's the only , that 's the bottom line of evolution , and it 's the only quantitative measure we can ever have , it 's the only When you 're ready , there 's no hurry . |
| 25 | Will ultimately go through the solution that you 're looking at , in terms of optical activity it comes out t' other end , cos light tends to do that , you know it 'll come t' other end and at this end , after going through a length system etcetera , will be a an eyeball . |
| 26 | In situations of moral dilemma he does what he considers must be done , even though it involves him in distress and suffering . |
| 27 | For example , in languages with non-semantic gender it may happen that the syntactic gender of a noun is different from the natural gender of the object it refers to . |