Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun sg] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , his manners in company nothing if not impeccable , Ven switched to English and introduced Lubor Ondrus . |
| 2 | The result is that only those negative regulations , restrictive in nature , contained in a s.52 agreement may be enforced against successors in title who have notice of such an agreement . |
| 3 | Dennis was an assiduous host , constantly on the move , opening bottles , disposing of empties , topping up everyone 's glasses and handing round salty snacks in case anyone 's thirst began to flag . |
| 4 | No cos it wer No it 's just the fact she wants to go to a veterinary nurse you see , I wanted t them Do n't want her be in contact with too many animals in case they have s do n't wan na get . |
| 5 | Dot avoided the danger of the swivelling eyes in case they had the same compelling powers . |
| 6 | Refusing to shut her eyes in case she succumbed again , Sarella fixed her gaze on a point over his shoulder on the scarlet wall opposite . |
| 7 | He wo n't close his eyes in case you do something to him . |
| 8 | Amato , having been invited by Scalfaro to try to form a government , took on June 24 the unusual step of presenting a document to the 16 parties in parliament which outlined his proposed government policy . |
| 9 | ‘ But if we can find the funds in future we would want to reinstate the service . ’ |
| 10 | ( 1 ) The defendants have a contractual right to retain out of the mortgage funds in hand their costs , charges and expenses , including the receivers ' remuneration , on an indemnity basis . |
| 11 | of writes : WITH the recent Californian earthquakes in mind I was wondering if you knew in what year most earthquakes had occurred . |
| 12 | The attitude of the Bench to past proposals for the reform of the criminal law did not suggest that their judgment in such a matter was reliable , and those Government supporters in Parliament who had given most study to the matter were unanimously in favour of abolition . |
| 13 | On the Thursdays in lab you have to work on your own and everybody 's doing different experiments and it is really — I mean , I dread Thursdays , because it is really worrying . |
| 14 | In order to placate Washington Israel officially claimed this was all an unauthorised operation but in the intelligence world an unauthorised operation is simply one that is too hazardous to handle by normal channels in case something goes wrong . |
| 15 | for the pearls in slime his grandfather swore he found . |
| 16 | Well erm it was a sticky bus you know , er a field in Winter , it was just er bare soil , there was n no no grass on it and with the cart trudging back and forth , getting towards er a gateway , you would up to your knees in mud you know . |
| 17 | Maybe if I was really hard up with no career or opportunities in life I might feel differently . |
| 18 | With the development of the NACAB policy of equal opportunities in recruitment there has been more awareness of this issue and considerable developments in recruitment practices have resulted . |
| 19 | I refrain from naming the books in case you have yet to read them . |
| 20 | The eldest , Thomas , was to have ‘ all my books in case he betake himself to the study and practice of physic ’ . |
| 21 | However , whilst asserting that the reporting accountant should already as part of his or her duties be auditing at least two reconciliations in detail they also argued that the process was ‘ highly unlikely to reveal a great deal that the reporting accountant would not otherwise pick up during the year-end work ’ . |
| 22 | Microcomputers are often described as personal computers In fact it can be quite helpful to think of them in this way when considering the differences between them and mainframe or minicomputers Usually microcomputers are used by only one person at a time ; for example , a personnel manager might have one on his desk top which he uses to examine trends in recruitment . |
| 23 | As to the second , there are two fractals in physics whose D is fairly well accounted for , namely the ‘ Brownian ’ drift of a small particle jostled by molecules in a fluid which is an erratic curve with D=2 , and the hierarchy of density fluctuations in a fluid at the critical point where it can not properly be considered as liquid or gas . |
| 24 | It should be noted that there are a number of morphologically irregular words in English which will require explicit statement in the lexicon ( e.g. children instead of childs , caught instead of catched ) . |
| 25 | But you see I find this discussion slightly difficult to deal with because on the one hand you 're saying yes , the exclusion clauses in the policy reduce the scope of your liability quite dramatically , and on the other hand you 're saying but that 's just the words in practice we behave quite differently . |
| 26 | As Johnson-Laird has pointed out we customarily understand and use words in context whose meanings we do not know in any exact sense : |
| 27 | From this standpoint , the two contradictions in capitalism which Godelier distinguishes are to be regarded as being equally basic and important . |
| 28 | In this chapter , I shall argue that Simmel 's assertion that his analysis is one of modernity rather than solely of capitalism should be taken seriously , and that the contradictions in modernity which he analysed are not resolvable through Marxist conceptions of a future society , but are dilemmas which have to be investigated as integral aspects of modern life . |
| 29 | That left me with dozens of portly gentlemen in blue who spent the rest of the night eating my shortbread , drinking my coffee and asking me if I knew Terry Wogan . |
| 30 | The 140k DNA binding domain specifically recognizes multiple gene 62 promoter sequences in DNase I footprinting assays |