Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 31 | No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ? |
| 32 | Punks were not normally aggressive , and though he adhered to his normal practice of avoiding eye contact in public places he was fairly relaxed about them . |
| 33 | The toilet was er at the back of what we used to call the brew house it was n't a kitchen it was a brew house , and er the , the toilet was at the back of the brew house adjacent to the old ash pit , which was an ash pit in those days it was filled up and when it was filled , they used to come at night and empty the ash pit wheel up the entry it might be there for three or four months and you got flies , bluebottles all sorts in the hot weather you know , I could n't try my shoes on sometimes , but er it was a bit , well I suppose in those days they used to take it for granted , it was a bit primitive it was n't the best five houses in the area , but er |
| 34 | You may not be aware that excessive usage of the lifts does in fact cost the company a great deal of money , and in line with our cost-cutting efforts in other areas I have drawn up the following guidelines , which must be strictly adhered to from now on . |
| 35 | On engagements associated with financings in foreign jurisdictions it will be necessary to take advice from a partner in the country where the finance is being raised to ensure that the documents are in order and that the local regulatory and filing requirements are being met . |
| 36 | Because we were n't able to define with any confidence areas of neovascularization in capillary tumours we 've based the study on those tumours with solid er solid tumours or those with solid elements . |
| 37 | If , however , Rueschemeyer were making not a positive statement about substantive differences between law and medicine in this respect but a statement about general beliefs in such differences he would be on surer ground . |
| 38 | The former Soviet international has established herself as the world 's leading female middle distance runner in recent years she won the 1500 metres and 3,000 metres at the inaugural World Championships in Rome in 1987 and finished third and first respectively in the same events at the Seoul Olympics a year later . |
| 39 | In recounting my coming out story in later years I have always sited this period of my life as extremely important to my subsequent emergence as a lesbian . |
| 40 | So they 're saying this is an ex gratia payment in other words they 're offering you that payment as er some compensation for the fact that you 've losing your job . |
| 41 | Because these appear at about the same level in adjacent fibrils they give to the whole fibre its characteristic cross-striated appearance . |
| 42 | Although the SNP recorded swings in several seats it failed to breakthrough in the Labour seats it would need to win in any significant nationalist revival . |
| 43 | While the research is primarily concerned with comprehension in fluent readers it is likely to have implications for certain forms of reading backwardness and for the development of Natural Language Understanding programs for computers . |
| 44 | And actually really in a last resort in many cases they come to you . |
| 45 | Given the common values of E and p in structural solids we find that the speed of sound in these substances is very high indeed : for steel , aluminium and glass it is about 11,000 miles an hour or 4,800 metres per second , which is much faster than the speed of sound in air . |
| 46 | Of course in those days we used to go to Bournemouth . |
| 47 | Er you were called out at night and of course in those days you went round on a bicycle and you , you went round with your little black bag strapped on the back . |
| 48 | Here the great problem is to try to decide if the non-respondents differ in any way from the respondents and of course in most cases they obviously do in not being interested in the subject of the survey itself . |
| 49 | Given the steeper wage profiles in large firms it is not surprising to find intense competition for employment in these firms and employers are able to select those with the highest qualifications . |
| 50 | Due to the scale of operations in large companies it is often possible for staff to specialise in a way that is impractical in smaller companies . |
| 51 | Whenever I could afford it you know , but erm , there was n't so much money in those days I ca n't remember exactly how much we , we used to get in for coppers you know . |
| 52 | I do n't know how much they gave , but I do know that it , it , it came into a , a few hundred pounds which is a lot of money in those days you know , when you 're talking about nineteen sixteen . |
| 53 | ‘ On the basis of experience in other sectors we would advocate delay in the introduction of schemes while a programme of training in basic principles of job evaluation is provided , ’ she says . |
| 54 | I mean , I do I do take your point about the culture , and it and it 's it is a significant issue , which will take some time , I mean , probably wi with your experience in Social Services you 'll know that a substantial number of directors of Social Services are in fact female , and maybe one of the questions that we have to ask at a senior level is , our s senior erm , chief officers , erm , the fact that we 've got no woman , chief officer , and it may well be because now that we 've got an equal opportunities policy , that we may get applications from erm , very able women who see that we have got a clear commitment to equal opportunities demonstrated in this paper . |
| 55 | Um and I think there 's some acknowledgement in these quotes I 've got under end results , classifications and syndromes which um I suppose there 's some acknowledgement that maybe these things were adaptive at the time but maybe once people are grown up they 're not quite so adaptive . |
| 56 | Because there 's been a dramatic increase in traffic in recent years we need to assess the impact on the river 's special environment . |
| 57 | I erm have n't done a survey of this , but from my experience of meeting people in different universities I do get the impression that there tends to be many people of a religious persuasion , whereas in the sciences of the very small , biology and so on , there is not . |
| 58 | If we can help people in those circumstances it 's got to be a brilliant product . |
| 59 | At a speed of fifty yards in fifteen minutes it would take me another eight hours to reach the road . |
| 60 | Edward Cody of the AP and I once came to the conclusion that in every interview we conducted in Lebanon , a special chair should be set aside for The Plot — since The Plot invariably played a leading role in all discussions we ever had with politicians , diplomats or gunmen . |