Example sentences of "[conj] in their [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | Coopers & Lybrand does not believe that the ED 's proposals ‘ should be issued either in the short term or in their present form ’ . |
| 6 | Some clients will identify obvious external factors , such as changes at work , home , or in their personal life . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Most children with severe visual handicaps will have been discovered within a few days of their birth or in their early infancy in hospital . |
| 9 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | It is her case that the university has failed either in the proper interpretation of its statutes or in their proper application . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Staff do not , either verbally or in their written material , give more prominence to one establishment than others . |
| 14 | They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities . |
| 15 | The CAS Director saw more than 130 practices during the year , either at the RIBA or in their own offices , to offer help and advice . |
| 16 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 17 | Robin SeQueira , Dorset director and ADSS junior vice-president , says cash constraints may force some local authorities to cap the cost of caring for people , either in residential care or in their own homes . |
| 18 | Few craft activities of the early Anglo-Saxon period have left any archaeological traces except in their finished products , and metalworking is notable for its near absence . |
| 19 | Except in their occasional introductions , science textbooks do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution . |
| 20 | They 'd see us coming hours before we got up there on foot , the girl would have been spirited away before we got anywhere near her and nobody would speak to us except in their incomprehensible dialect . |
| 21 | The eating disorders and other forms of addictive disease may not be seen at all except in their extreme forms . |
| 22 | Although in their own eyes the rebels had simply been fighting for what was rightfully theirs , from the point of view of Henry II and Richard they were disturbers of the peace , and as princes maintaining the peace within their dominions , the Angevins could generally rely on the support of the church . |
| 23 | The role of the officers — the vanguard of revolutionary education , exempt from the civilian controls which applied to electricity or water — seemed to have encouraged them in their belief that in their private capacities too officers were not subject to the same rules as civilians . |
| 24 | Indeed , one may imagine that in their private lives these same authors may well feel that the visit of the in-laws or attendance at some social function or a distant relative , two of the few reminders of the once overwhelming burden of personal social relations , are curbs upon their own ‘ freedom ’ . |
| 25 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 26 | It is important to remember that in their negative form ( i.e. combined with ‘ not ’ ) they never have the weak pronunciation , and some ( e.g. ‘ do n't ’ , ‘ ca n't ’ ) have different vowels from their non-negative strong forms . |
| 27 | Gyford points out that in their earliest days , the politics of local government assumed ‘ a somewhat kaleidoscopic form . |
| 28 | Tumin concludes that in their enthusiastic search for the positive functions of stratification , the functionalists have tended to ignore or play down its many dysfunctions . |
| 29 | The constitution helps to shape politics and also regulates public access to , and the behaviour of , the various institutions of the state ( such as the Cabinet , the House of Commons , the civil service , the military , the judiciary , and the police ) that in their different ways have the right to exercise public power , if necessary through the use of physical force , within the United Kingdom . |
| 30 | I have always suffered from nightmares , and at first I thought to press one of them into service , believing that dreams speak from some inner truth , and that in their very unlikelihood lies something more plausible to our inner beings than the most prosaic diurnal life . |