Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] in [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole of the party were in excellent health and had well tried each others stamina in walking up mountains etc. etc. but having so many interesting objects in view they had allowed no difficulty or danger to impede their progress . |
| 2 | Quoting Bertrand Russell 's dictum that if you hold unorthodox opinions in England you will be disregarded at first , persecuted if you persist , but finally canonised if you live long enough , he comments : ‘ having experienced the first two stages , I seem to be approaching the third . ’ |
| 3 | It may be sufficient to remark that when the instrument was demonstrated to an assembly of interested parties in Oxford it met with great approval . |
| 4 | When Arthur Wellesley was in command of the British troops in Spain he refused to pay for their upkeep by pillage and plunder . |
| 5 | Why is it that we can look at organizations which we ourselves have worked in for most of our lives , where we have complained bitterly , where over drinks with our colleagues or at the Christmas pantomime or some other time we have given vent to our irritation at these bad organizational and behavioural characteristics ; and yet when we reach high positions in companies we consider them to be something which is beyond our capability to influence ? |
| 6 | I think they had a bit of juggling to do , moving people out of the odd house in rows they demolished , and into the empty spots in ones they 're keeping — like filling decaying teeth-but most of it was just rotting where it stood . |
| 7 | In the case of many of the former British territories in Africa they had something of a common industrial relations heritage built around an institutional framework in the British mould which was fostered by colonial administrations . |
| 8 | ‘ After his enforced lay-offs in Sydney he 's raring to go . ’ |
| 9 | old ones in case they |
| 10 | Well three sort of top professors in America they |
| 11 | Although there are over 20 million individual shareholders in Japan they only account for a quarter of the total shares held . |
| 12 | Microcomputers are often described as personal computers In fact it can be quite helpful to think of them in this way when considering the differences between them and mainframe or minicomputers Usually microcomputers are used by only one person at a time ; for example , a personnel manager might have one on his desk top which he uses to examine trends in recruitment . |
| 13 | Since then there had been a number of regional conferences of communist parties , such as the meeting of Latin American parties in 1975 and of European parties in 1976 and 1980 , but many parties refused to attend even these more limited gatherings in case they compromised their organisational independence . |
| 14 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 15 | Scar tissue all right ; a birthmark she 'd had removed in early teens in case it turned malignant . |
| 16 | As the manual tells you , by holding certain stitches in holding ( E ) position and knitting the remaining stitches in sequence you can work shoulder shaping , neck shaping , sock heels and toes and even a shaped hemline on skirts , while most attractive full skirts can be made on the same principle . |
| 17 | While they were accustomed to being absolute rulers in Hanover they realized that being King of England was more important than being Elector of Hanover and they spent most of their time in England , but they never felt entirely at ease in the forty-six years during which they ruled in London . |
| 18 | Once William and his wife Mary ( who had a better claim to the throne than her husband ) were established as joint rulers in England they had , like the Republic thirty years earlier , to bring the rest of the territories of the King of England into obedience to the new authority . |
| 19 | Each campesino had been given instructions to always have ready 20 extra tortillas in case we had to leave at a moment 's notice , but even so , it was very hard . |
| 20 | The sunshine when she landed at Heathrow was a cruel reminder to Alyssia of the lazy days in France she had thought would never end . |
| 21 | The figures are both shocking and tragic , but set in the context of 19th-century political convulsions in France they are relatively mild . |
| 22 | It had been his first and only history lesson , and throughout their hungry and needy years in Bunarkaig he never lost the sense that they lived under threat , that government was pitiless , and that some day they would have to fight again for the right to live at peace in their own place . |
| 23 | Using a democratic structure of rotating the roles of therapist and patient , it encourages people to express previous hurts in ways they might have done as children if that had been allowed . |
| 24 | " My dear , in a moment I shall have to call one of the bearers to assist Mr Hopkins with his natural functions in case it should be necessary . |
| 25 | ‘ With a lot of the hard men in football it 's all down to their characters . |
| 26 | In the centre of a rich and densely populated countryside with ready access by canal and river to 5 of the most populous counties in Ireland it still remained ‘ but a small town of very insignificant appearance ’ with only about 867 inhabitants . |
| 27 | With so many major projects in hand she wanted to make sure that everything was in a fit state . |
| 28 | But they 're quite long distances in Sanday you see . |
| 29 | The competition now goes into winter hibernation , but when Rangers travel to play the Belgian champions in March they will do so believing they really can reach the final . |
| 30 | Likewise , various scurrilous attacks were made on Constanze 's honour , suggesting that during her frequent sojourns in Baden she had taken Mozart 's pupil Süssmayr as a lover , and that her last child ( who bore Süssmayr 's Christian names ) was his . |