Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I DID NOT STAY to see the Eid — the Eid Al Iftr , that great feast of the breaking of the fast , the days of celebration when everyone dresses in new clothes as though the sackcloth of fasting has lifted and life has renewed itself once again . |
| 2 | And everyone joins in this charade with talk of them now having time to do all the things they have always wanted to do . |
| 3 | And if someone writes in another language , you wo n't get it for a long time . |
| 4 | I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake |
| 5 | Nothing happens in this work , he wrote , but what of the world ? |
| 6 | Each of these challenges comes to nought in the end though , for , as one of the interpreters explains , ‘ Some will say nothing happens in this novel , in this , Convention , and they 'd be dead right . |
| 7 | Then on a Sunday night , the village , what they call wakes , they call them wakes in those days , not the village fair , it was the wakes . |
| 8 | Libra Bank , the London-based consortium bank which trades in third world debts , plunged to a pre-tax loss of £174.6m in the first half of 1989 from profits last time of £10.9m . |
| 9 | First , are we to regard the welfare state , which fits uneasily , if at all , into a Marxist scheme , as a new type of state , which differs in fundamental respects from the state as it existed in the laissez-faire capitalist societies of the nineteenth century ? |
| 10 | There is nothing more seductive than vanilla which evokes in most people cosy feelings of home-baked cakes , warmth and security . |
| 11 | Both the L and M series feature local bus video which turns in nifty performance figures . |
| 12 | Lehr Brisbin , of the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory in South Carolina , believes that radiocaesium , which accumulates in those tissues eaten by humans , could be present in quantities hundreds of times higher than the average in the area . |
| 13 | Appearance is a concern , but what I see is conditioned by my preconceptions , attitudes and information , all of which influences in varying degrees my choice of working locations . |
| 14 | The family , which lives in Old Colwyn , had refrained from making any comment on the delays , hoping that patience would pay off . |
| 15 | Much of the criticism , however , is directed against the nationalism of the developing countries — against Arab , African or Latin American nationalism , for example — which challenges in various ways the dominance of the industrial capitalist nations ; yet it is evident that nationalism is just as strong in the latter countries , though for good historical reasons ( they are long established , accepted nation states ) it may be less vehemently expressed . |
| 16 | We can avoid reference to transitivity by saying that there must be one and only one element which stands in some power of R to all the other members of the set . |
| 17 | Coercion is not needed today for most people in these areas , for the evolution of mankind has led to the internalization of these prohibitions ; the super-ego , which develops in most children in modern societies , controls these . |
| 18 | Subsequently , their Lordships have had sight of the approved transcript of the judgment which corresponds in all material respects with the report considered in argument . |
| 19 | At the present day , however , the rights of the purchaser of the legal estate for value without notice are diminished by the Land Charges Act 1972 , which has in certain cases prevented such a purchaser from defeating the rights of the equitable owners , by enabling certain rights in the land to be registered , and providing that registration is equivalent to notice . |
| 20 | Sir Teddy Taylor recently articulated the argument that the anti-Common Marketeers have had to contend with and which has in many respects been found wanting . |
| 21 | The Sandinistas recognise that perestroika will bring changes in their relationship with Moscow , which has in recent years been worth around £625m annually , according to European diplomats . |
| 22 | Interest in BSL by hearing people , which has in recent years grown enormously reached a peak in 1988 with a broadcast by the of a television programme on this subject , consisting of ten weekly parts , each of fifteen minutes . |
| 23 | A government inquiry cleared the plant , which has in one way or another brought about £100m to the area , but the cows go on dying . |
| 24 | The Sun has not been one of the newspapers which has in any way suggested that either the Queen or the Duke of Edinburgh have been other than supportive to the Princess of Wales . ’ |
| 25 | underlined the distinction between a common law agency which has in some cases distracted the court , and the real question which arises in cases where the issue is equitable relief . |
| 26 | This negative attitude towards Palestinian women in particular , and Arab women in general , originates from the Western colonial attitude which has in some ways permeated the Western feminist movement . |
| 27 | The Urengoy field , which lies in Western Siberia , inside the Arctic circle , is believed by the USSR to hold reserves of gas bigger than those of Holland , Canada , Britain , Mexico and Algeria combined . |
| 28 | Mars , which lies in 3,100 feet of water , is just one project in a highly prospective area that could become one of our major profit centres in the future . |
| 29 | The potentially longer duration of registered designs is the main reason why a design which lies in this overlap should be registered . |
| 30 | Leach ( 1977 ) has shown the ephemerality which lies in any attempt to classify deviance on a global scale ; for what is criminal in one society or at one point in time is relative to that time and place and to who holds the discourse on power . |