Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 2 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 3 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 4 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 5 | It would be difficult to justify an economic system in which wages were determined by a form of lottery ; or in which monopoly and exploitation were the order of day ; or in which each person earned the same wage regardless of effort , risk or training . |
| 6 | So you must contrive a number of situations in which character is revealed , either directly in talk or in action or in what other people in your book , the vestigial " other suspects ' , have to say . |
| 7 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 8 | They sat at their windows or in their small front gardens , making and mending nets and dyeing saffron the cloth for the coloured sails that were traditional on Elling craft . |
| 9 | ‘ Football on the continent has changed and the results in both groups of the Champions League show that sides are now willing to attack at home or in their away matches . ’ |
| 10 | Such people may be keen to work , but unable to find jobs because none are available in their occupation or in their geographical area , so that re-training or re-housing would be necessary to increase the chances of employment . |
| 11 | HMI lost no opportunity in ramming the message home , whether in individual school reports , in the ‘ Education Observed ’ and in the ‘ Curriculum Matters ’ series , or in their annual reports on the ‘ effects of public expenditure policies on educational provision ’ . |
| 12 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 13 | Some clients will identify obvious external factors , such as changes at work , home , or in their personal life . |
| 14 | Sure , this is where I , this is where erm I must say that I never quite understood this , but if the prosecution witnesses , in their statements or in their oral evidence , refer to your client 's bad character , then that is inadmissible , completely inadmissible . |
| 15 | They were all teenagers or in their early twenties . |
| 16 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 17 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 18 | Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould , two invertebrate palaeontologists , suggested in 1972 that the abrupt transitions in the fossil record reflect the way evolution actually works , by fits and starts , or in their latinate phrase , ‘ punctuated equilibria ’ . |
| 19 | It is her case that the university has failed either in the proper interpretation of its statutes or in their proper application . |
| 20 | This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history . |
| 21 | Staff do not , either verbally or in their written material , give more prominence to one establishment than others . |
| 22 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 23 | They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities . |
| 24 | The CAS Director saw more than 130 practices during the year , either at the RIBA or in their own offices , to offer help and advice . |
| 25 | Robin SeQueira , Dorset director and ADSS junior vice-president , says cash constraints may force some local authorities to cap the cost of caring for people , either in residential care or in their own homes . |
| 26 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 27 | Late of the RSC and a habitue of the West End and Edinburgh Festivals , Jayne Boniface makes all too persuasive a Julie , whether in her arrogant , teasing , lustful prime and pride as at the beginning or in her subsequent grovelling , whingeing humiliation . |
| 28 | Elitism , either in its traditional or in its recent form , appears profoundly critical of the pretensions of modern liberal democracy , though in different ways in each case . |
| 29 | This refers to the ability of the organization to continue in its present form or in its planned form . |
| 30 | 1.1 Loss , whether of status , security , freedom or in its many other aspects is often an implicit part of the life situations of departmental clients . |