Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In their more usual homes they like to live in huge colonies around cracks in the ocean floor where hot mineral rich larva or oil and gas leak from the sea bed . |
| 2 | Although politicians tended to steer clear of acknowledging this aspect of policy too publicly , in their more candid moments they admitted that this cure for inflation went hand in glove with a rise in unemployment above NAIRU . |
| 3 | In its more specific uses it has much to contribute by way of correction to generalizing uses of culture' . |
| 4 | But in its more common uses it refers to an indirectness of relation between experience and its composition . |
| 5 | If he were to look at his life rationally — as in his most philosophical moments he liked to think he did — then there was no questioning the profile . |
| 6 | He told John Colville , one of the junior private secretaries he inherited from Churchill , ‘ that in his most optimistic dreams he had reckoned that there might , with luck , be a Conservative majority of only some forty seats ’ . |