Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] in [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Since words in the closed class have a syntactic rather than a semantic role in utterances they are also known as function words . |
| 3 | Estimates suggest five per cent of Danish sows are kept outside , and while there is some growth in numbers it is not likely to go beyond 10 per cent . |
| 4 | 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 " . |
| 5 | When he gets to Iona , Johnson will walk for the second time in footsteps he does not yet know about , those of the man who caused the folklore — Columba was here . |
| 6 | ( 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 " ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | As a leading man in films he was expected to be nothing other than purely masculine . |
| 9 | I think in terms of our our first duty to protect the public by keeping offenders locked up securely , yes by and large we do a good job and that , by keeping good order in prisons we do a good job generally speaking incidence are very few and far between after the mid eighties , things have settled down considerably . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | fire fighters which will give us er more consistency in cuts we have Chairman of their meeting er er a number of months er during the past year when we are by Home seventy five . |
| 13 | ‘ For the first time in ages they are tackling their problems in a sensible , mature manner without hysteria on one side and bloody-mindedness on the other . |
| 14 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 15 | For the first time in years he felt what it was like to be a truly free man . |
| 16 | It 's the first time in years I 've been able to uncoil a little with Ali . |
| 17 | For the first time in years it is possible to walk around the whole building and experience it in three dimensions . |
| 18 | For the first time in years it was thick enough to bear . |
| 19 | For the first time in years she had someone she could rely on . |
| 20 | For the first time in months she felt very sick again . |
| 21 | For the first time in months he was smiling . |
| 22 | He realised that for the first time in weeks he had not thought of school , Murray , Fairbrother or the wretched affair of the letter . |
| 23 | He understood at once why she had not told him ; he remembered the glass of milk in the café , and for the first time in weeks he was able to weep . |
| 24 | For the first time in days she felt relaxed , rejuvenated even , as though the trees had somehow managed to impart new life into her . |
| 25 | For the first time in days she felt a stirring of life inside her . |
| 26 | If governments acted to remove some of the existing constraints to economic growth in DRAs it would be reasonable to expect private investors to move in from outside to exploit the opportunities thus created . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Mr Milken was an anti-establishment maverick who financed raiders lacking any experience in companies they bought . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Some of the departments were small and without sufficient staff with relevant expertise in areas it was proposed to teach . |