Example sentences of "in the [adj] [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the immediate post-war years there was an attempt to absolve the bureaucracy of responsibility for externally aggressive and internally repressive policies , by pointing out the ways in which bureaucrats had tried to hold back military excesses . |
| 2 | There was a se er a little seat situated in the great long ribs there was across , and then there was the side that . |
| 3 | Students are selected to take part in the four regional finals which involve preparing the menu in cook-offs , and from each regional final a student team is selected for the grand final . |
| 4 | The first concerned the large army of lay or local preachers : for every minister in the four leading denominations there were seven lay preachers . |
| 5 | One can imagine that if Xerxes had been successful and absorbed Greece into the Persian empire , Greek archaic art might have crystallised in the decorative academic formulae which characterise Achaemenian ; while the threat and its repulse can be seen as the catalyst which released the spirit of Hellenism , flowering in the fifth century as richly in literature and thought as in the visual arts . |
| 6 | In the wide ranging debates which accompanied the Prime Minister 's Review of the NHS , there was widespread agreement both on the strengths and weaknesses of the British health care system . |
| 7 | In the infrequent acute infections there may be high mortality . |
| 8 | Wes smiled and looked up at me and for a moment the tough mask dropped from the grubby features and in the dark wild eyes I read sheer delight . |
| 9 | In the early postwar decades it seemed that governments had some clear options . |
| 10 | But in the early postwar years its import surplus was so large that despite expanded gold exports it was a net drawer on the sterling pool , until it left the pool at the end of 1947 . |
| 11 | In the early middle ages we find a saint , St Eligius ( 588–663 ) , acting as goldsmith to Frankish kings . |
| 12 | In the early Middle Ages it often meant kaleidoscopic change on the political scene but the new pattern ( unlike a kaleidoscope 's ) took some time to form . |
| 13 | Finding a sufficient number of tokens of a variable for each speaker did not apparently emerge as a problem in the early urban surveys which followed Labov 's 1966 model . |
| 14 | In the early post-war years it was believed that investment expenditures were not very responsive to changes in interest rates , and most of the empirical evidence at the time , seemed to support this view . |
| 15 | In the early post-war years it was difficult even to stay alive , with low rations , a fuel shortage and an economy which worked by barter in the absence of a stable currency . |
| 16 | After leaving the Navy he also wrote much fiction , and as a novelist in the early post-war years his first published work , The Felthams ( 1950 ) , was thought highly of and his bestseller , The Rock ( 1957 ) , served to establish him as a writer of more than a little promise . |
| 17 | Competition is intense in the deregulated financial markets which have been created since 1986 . |
| 18 | Their resistance lies in the tiny glandular hairs which cover the foliage of the wild potato , but not that of cultivated species . |
| 19 | A striking example of the formation of pertinent social collectivities on enterprise lines is found in the Japanese industrial/commercial combines which provide lifetime employment for many workers as well as extensive ‘ welfare ’ and social services . |
| 20 | Occupational pension provision has always served best the interests of employees who have a lifelong record of full time employment in the better paid occupations which offer an employer 's pension as a fringe benefit . |
| 21 | Thus in the European feudal societies it was not the conflict between lord and peasant which was decisive in bringing about change ( only in the twentieth century has it been possible to organize peasants in effective revolutionary movements ) , but the emergence and growth in those societies of an alien incompatible element — the bourgeoisie . |
| 22 | I am more interested in the varying symbolic functions they fulfil . |
| 23 | The leaves fell thickly in the more established portions of the city , to the envy of residents in the bare new suburbs who were still awaiting paved roads and street lights , never mind trees . |
| 24 | Let us assume , in accordance with the Marxist concept , that in the earliest human societies there was no political domination , in however rudimentary a form ( not even the domination of women by men ) , though this may seem less probable than it once did , in the light of recent studies of animal societies . |
| 25 | It is to the shame of this Tory government that er er our senior citizens have to struggle to feed and clothe themselves and to try to keep warm , and as inadequate pensions that they receive from this government if you compare the way in the other European countries what they get and what the British government gives to our old age pensioners , our senior citizens they 're more they 're worse off than actually second class citizens . |
| 26 | In the other loyalist groups there were a number of competing leadership figures who offered differing responses to events and who were obliged to engage in more extensive consultation with their supporters before pronouncing . |
| 27 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
| 28 | The matter has been further discussed in the two Special Commissions which have reviewed the operation of the Hague Convention . |
| 29 | We will examine these commercial issues in more detail in the two main sections which follow . |
| 30 | Americas Watch also found crowded prisons in 1982 , primarily in the two main prisons which were used to house ‘ Somocistas ’ . |