Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] in [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | We are developing the VK 989 field ( BP : xx% ) which lies in 1,300 feet of water . |
| 16 | Thus , despite the striking familial association between gluten sensitivity and ulcerative colitis , it is clear from this study that the gluten driven proctitis is not part of a continuum of inflammatory change which culminates in some individuals in full blown ulcerative colitis . |
| 17 | A point-in-polygon problem was used as an example which results in five classes of answer depending on the position of the point relative to the digitized boundary and the ‘ epsilon ’ distance ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |
| 18 | It is difficult to account for this difference in latency periods , but one contributory factor may be the better bibliographical control of the subject field , as described earlier , which results in increased consultations soon after the theses are deposited . |
| 19 | There are some unavoidable costs er on that count , particularly on the engine programme where delays to the aircraft programme which results in extra costs on the engine side are the customer 's liability . |
| 20 | It 's also the term we 've applied to the phenomenon which results in these disappearances . ’ |
| 21 | Jakobson and Lübbe-Grothues note that the speech of schizophrenics is characterized by the tendency to omit the pronoun ‘ I ’ as well as a fear of responsibility for independent affirmation or denial which results in ambiguous statements ( 1980:135 ) . |
| 22 | Chronic idiopathic intestinal pseudoobstruction is an uncommon but serious disorder of intestinal neuromuscular function which results in recurrent episodes of intestinal obstruction without a mechanical cause , in vomiting , and in an inability to tolerate oral feeds . |
| 23 | More efficient treatment of the gall stone disease and less need for hospital treatment , which results in fewer episodes of recurrent gall stone pancreatitis , may offer a more likely explanation . |
| 24 | It is these residual , archaic superego elements which combine with the more rational , mature ones in the comprehensive externalization of the superego which occurs in total societies . |
| 25 | And the sorts of objectives that er these wars are concerned with er may be control over resources , over particular minerals , control over markets con control over trade the acquisition of territory or the recovery of lost territory and ideological or political objectives , objectives which are strictly speaking er to do with the belief system which predominates in particular states or where there 's a conflict between states er which have radically conflicting er ideologies . |
| 26 | Peer review is used by the ( American ) National Science Foundation ( NSF ) , which equates in some respects to the UK Research Councils , in their peer review Proposal Evaluation Criteria , as described by Weinberg ( 1989 ) . |
| 27 | The site lies on a low hill of red sandstone , which rises gently from the valley of the River Eden to the south but which terminates in two summits at present occupied by the cathedral and the castle . |
| 28 | In America it is called the thick-billed murre , and it is closely related to the common guillemot which breeds in large numbers on the cliffs of Shetland . |
| 29 | Too often in the public sector final outputs become reducible to vague and unquantifiable notions of public good , which leads in many cases to the measurement instead of more easily quantified — but possibly misleading-intermediate outputs . |
| 30 | There seemed to be no place for the concept of a human soul sustained by a divine being , which exists in other religions , independently of the Christian accretion of the Man-God and suffering Saviour . |