Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 2 | This planning diary should show , for example , weeks in which certain lecture courses begin or in which certain work assignments are due for presentation ; weeks in which there are social or sporting events ; weeks in which you are free to take a break or to go away for a few days . |
| 3 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 4 | So you must contrive a number of situations in which character is revealed , either directly in talk or in action or in what other people in your book , the vestigial " other suspects ' , have to say . |
| 5 | At the next level of organization , the action of InsP 3 has been studied on populations of receptors prepared either in membrane vesicles or in their normal location within permeabilized cells . |
| 6 | ‘ Football on the continent has changed and the results in both groups of the Champions League show that sides are now willing to attack at home or in their away matches . ’ |
| 7 | Such people may be keen to work , but unable to find jobs because none are available in their occupation or in their geographical area , so that re-training or re-housing would be necessary to increase the chances of employment . |
| 8 | HMI lost no opportunity in ramming the message home , whether in individual school reports , in the ‘ Education Observed ’ and in the ‘ Curriculum Matters ’ series , or in their annual reports on the ‘ effects of public expenditure policies on educational provision ’ . |
| 9 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 10 | Some clients will identify obvious external factors , such as changes at work , home , or in their personal life . |
| 11 | Sure , this is where I , this is where erm I must say that I never quite understood this , but if the prosecution witnesses , in their statements or in their oral evidence , refer to your client 's bad character , then that is inadmissible , completely inadmissible . |
| 12 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 13 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 14 | Niles Eldredge and Stephen Jay Gould , two invertebrate palaeontologists , suggested in 1972 that the abrupt transitions in the fossil record reflect the way evolution actually works , by fits and starts , or in their latinate phrase , ‘ punctuated equilibria ’ . |
| 15 | It is her case that the university has failed either in the proper interpretation of its statutes or in their proper application . |
| 16 | This religious dimension is conserved as a sub text in many political ideologies , where it furnishes particular articles of faith in the self-emancipation of ethnic minorities , or in their special role as makers of their own history . |
| 17 | Staff do not , either verbally or in their written material , give more prominence to one establishment than others . |
| 18 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 19 | Late of the RSC and a habitue of the West End and Edinburgh Festivals , Jayne Boniface makes all too persuasive a Julie , whether in her arrogant , teasing , lustful prime and pride as at the beginning or in her subsequent grovelling , whingeing humiliation . |
| 20 | Elitism , either in its traditional or in its recent form , appears profoundly critical of the pretensions of modern liberal democracy , though in different ways in each case . |
| 21 | This refers to the ability of the organization to continue in its present form or in its planned form . |
| 22 | The word fundamentalism is unfortunately used by the Western press as the ‘ thought represented by mediaeval Islam ’ — rather than Islam at its source or in its pristine form . |
| 23 | Also insured , in the same way as your caravan are your caravans equipment including fixtures , fittings , awnings , utensils , furniture and furnishings0 ( but not your personal effects ) , while in your caravan or in its immediate vicinity or removed to secure premises provided they fall within the maximum amount payable . |
| 24 | ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’ |
| 25 | The degree to which the ESSE/L Project can be seen to be radical either as an initiative , or in its actual impact in schools , depends on how close it comes to one or other of these doctrines . |
| 26 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 27 | Is Anderson using the word ‘ random ’ in its mathematical sense , as one out of a series , or in its statistical sense in which each item has an individual chance ? |
| 28 | The Polish United Workers ' Party ( PUWP , or in its Polish acronym PZPR ) , since August 1989 no longer the ruling party but with four ministers in the Solidarity-led coalition government , opened on Jan. 27 its 11th and final congress , dedicated to the task of disbanding itself . |
| 29 | In addition , all parameters remained abnormal in patients not adhering to their gluten free diet , or in whom villous atrophy had not resolved . |
| 30 | What the patients need is to have emotional fear and pain acknowledged and expressed through words , tears or in whatever other way they find helpful . |