Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean that 's that 's one of his stock in trades he 's a superb volleyer of the ball and it was there for a second with a chance was there for a second . |
| 2 | In eighteen , in in late eighteen twelve erm with the prospect perhaps of Napoleonic rule in difficulties you see in some of Napoleon 's , some of the client states of Napoleonic Europe Spain , Naples you see constitutions being granted which are are pretty democratic actually . |
| 3 | And it may not be automatically obvious that whereas in some dictionaries " accountable " will be a separate entry in others it will appear under the general entry of " account " . |
| 4 | Without bothering to close the door , Ludovico began to make long and passionate love to her , teaching her how to take and give pleasure in ways she had never dreamed of . |
| 5 | Just as Moscow supported the creation of Communist regimes in eastern Europe after 1944 , so the Anglo — Americans had fostered liberal-democracy in areas they liberated . |
| 6 | Even when she was too tired to read she sought escape in romance-cubes she spent all her wages on at the Madreidetic shop . |
| 7 | With duplex Doppler scanning of the common femoral vein in humans we have shown a considerable reduction in peak blood flow velocity and shortening of the flow cycle during the respiratory phase on two occasions , with a return to normal venous blood flow characteristics on removal of the intraperitoneal gas . |
| 8 | Within the overall acceptance of innate sociality in humans we have tried to shift the debate on human aggression or peacefulness away from definitions and absolute categories , to an investigation of alternative moral orders in which the human person is perceived of as radically different from that constructed through the Judaeo-Christian tradition . |
| 9 | Partly due to their systematic exclusion , but also as a matter of choice , feminist artists increasingly preferred to display their work in settings they considered more appropriate to their desire to participate in the more public/political debates of feminism and a recognition of art as a communicative medium . |
| 10 | Because of this difference in numbers we had to exclude altogether a small area of Newham from our study , in order to achieve a sample size manageable for our purposes . |
| 11 | Whether that shame is yet moving them to have an impact on the men who they see perpetrating this sort of behaviour in colleges I do n't know , but certainly some of the undergraduates I have spoken to feel very embarrassed that this is the portrait of male behaviour that 's being perpetrated . |
| 12 | Where the applicant is a respondent in proceedings it is sufficient to attach a copy of the court application form to form CLA 5 with a supplementary statement containing any required information not included in the court form . |
| 13 | A property-owning democracy , it was argued , also leads to the improvement of the housing stock since people take a greater pride in homes they own . |
| 14 | It is generally accepted that each person , man and woman , is made up of both masculine and feminine qualities , and it appears that in some lifetimes the masculine will have been predominant while in others it will have been the feminine . |
| 15 | ( Compare X , Y and Z in fig i ) — In some the progression is very rapid while in others it takes very many years and may only be triggered by an acute personal crisis such as retirement or when the children leave home ( the " empty nest syndrome " ) . |
| 16 | On the whole speculation is frowned upon because it sometimes drives prices up in a monopolistic fashion ( through the cornering of some market ) and because it creates volatility ; yet where the speculator is a skilled trader in risks he is part of the system . |
| 17 | Some of the departments were small and without sufficient staff with relevant expertise in areas it was proposed to teach . |
| 18 | When the workers who produce the wealth of society demand an increase in their pay to match the rise in prices they are rebuked for being ‘ greedy ’ . |
| 19 | Trees , corn , grass , cabbages would all be anthropomorphised , so that ‘ for instance in trees I see expression and soul , so to speak . |
| 20 | The reduction in referrals we observed and the 23% reduction reported in Plymouth Health District followed voluntary adoption of the guidelines by practitioners without any reinforcement of guidelines to ensure compliance . |
| 21 | In the many visits I paid in the course of promoting these activities I again found the kind of awareness of what was new in literature in places I had least expected ; and when in the autumn of that year The Idea of a Christian Society was published , it was much more successful than Eliot hoped . |
| 22 | He says that if people spend money in Supermarkets they have n't got any left for smaller shops . |
| 23 | say your , er , er , and erm because there was no money in potatoes he , his sheds etcetera and his barns , he 's converted them and he 's letting them off as craft places |
| 24 | Moreover , such a policy would be seen to be libertarian , in that it genuinely trusted people to spend their own money in ways they prefer , rather than trying to bribe them into centrally determined consumption patterns . |
| 25 | Mr Milken was an anti-establishment maverick who financed raiders lacking any experience in companies they bought . |
| 26 | Instead , we urge you to get to know which particular pattern suits your personal needs — to record , analyse and , if necessary , to adapt that pattern in ways we shall suggest — and then to stick to it . |
| 27 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 28 | In the first group session the counselling method is registered in the course tutor 's notes ( Menary , 1986 ) by the explanation : ‘ This session aims to get participants to consider the subject of alcohol in ways they had not thought of in the past ’ ( p. 3 ) . |
| 29 | They are indicative not only of the strength of current Roman catholic social rules and sense of obedience on specified issues at the level of popular religion , but also of the direct power of the hierarchy operating through the state in affairs they considered sacred . |
| 30 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |