Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] in the " in BNC.

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1 In the Middle Ages everyone ate in the same manner — like pigs .
2 if I can comment on that Chairman , the erm , the Authority asked for thirty for next month , along with all the other authorities I think in the country , asked for an improvement in the , in the policing the country , and I think people that live in , in Shropshire , and the people that live in other er , parts of the country as well , would have welcomed the increase in the police force this year , but the government decided not to do that .
3 Even then the kids were calling him Crazy Jake , and I do n't know how many bloody noses I got in the playground , fighting to shut 'em up . ’
4 ‘ When I think of all those months I lived in the Store , not even knowing about the Outside … . ’
5 For six months I lived in the homes of working-class women , men and children .
6 For some months I worked in the Information Department of the British Embassy , where I was engaged in propaganda , which included writing leaders for the Iraq Times .
7 The other guideline which was issued was namely that of capital , where the a accepted the general guidelines which appeared in the county papers and as far as this Committee was concerned , would mean the general acceptance of all those items which appear in that the first year of that capital programme , subject to the proviso that the revenue contemplated and the benefits of the capital programme will be considered by Policy Panel in its forthcoming meeting .
8 Dispensing devices include single dose sachets , measuring dispensers integral with the packaging and graduated containers or measuring caps which assist in the correct dilution of liquids .
9 The catalogue raisonné which the German collector Dieter Blume has been compiling since the late 1970s has now reached its ninth volume , and has a general index listing well over 2000 unique sculptures , from Caro 's schoolboy efforts under the tutelage of Charles Wheeler , through his heavily modelled ‘ geometry of fear ’ period when he was Moore 's assistant , to the more distinctive Caro of the welded steel constructions which began in the 1960s .
10 ‘ Such terrors , ’ he whispered , ‘ pale compared to the demons which lurk in the mind of man and feed on the human spirit . ’
11 The main ones were post-war reconstruction , a productivity gap between the USA and the rest which drew American dollars and know-how into Europe and Japan , a sharp upward shift in peacetime levels of public expenditure ( caused by defence needs and welfare transfer payments ) and the absence of general synchronisation in the downswings which occurred in the major economies from time to time .
12 They do not represent a complete list of the ‘ traditions ’ in English curricula nor are they timeless entities ; they simply represent three clear constellations of curriculum styles which recur in the history of the school subjects under study .
13 I challenge Dr McNab to justify his so-called remedies which fly in the face of all that 's known about the pathology of this disease . "
14 This was the major period of emplacement of granite intrusions which resulted in the growth of the Western Cordillera .
15 It is only by locating repeal feminism in the broader history of moral environmentalism that we can begin to understand the more obvious class and gender contradictions which surfaced in the politics of the social purity movements in the 1880s and 1890s .
16 In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today .
17 The first type of ‘ Negroid ’ painting is more purely pictorial and is represented by the sketches and series of heads which culminate in the Nu à la Draperie , a painting of late 1907 which is known also as the Danseuse aux Voiles .
18 The downtown antique shops which clustered in the streets off the Marktplatz sold the bric-a-brac , not of the nineteenth but of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries .
19 The three hundred or so grammar schools which existed in the late Middle Ages were mostly local and small .
20 Education is very much based on trial and error though schools which specialise in the education of the autistic child have developed common aims .
21 Since the Scottish Council 's involvement in April 1989 in the Mini Enterprises in Schools Project ( MESP ) , the number of schools which participated in the project has more than doubled to 168 in the academic year ended 1989/90 .
22 By using words which originated in the context of their own society they imply that the institutions of that society have some kind of privileged universality .
23 On one of them , where I farmed for 45 years , while my employees who belonged there spoke Gaelic , I also from time to time employed Scots speakers from Alyth , splendid fellows , in whose speech I could recognise classical Scots words which occur in the poetry of the Scottish Chaucerians .
24 The chief preoccupation of Methuen 's later years , apart from his painting , and one for which he denied himself many luxuries , was the restoration , maintenance , and improvement of Corsham Court , the family seat , and of the collection of pictures which hung in the magnificent gallery built and furnished for them in the 1760s .
25 This paper seeks to uncover and resolve confusions which occur in the use of " design " as a term ; to delineate the significance , philosophically , socially , politically , and so on , of the design activity ( considered both as an " ideal " activity and in its empirical reality ) ; and to outline some particular benefits of this in problems to do with understanding the social benefits of design , design evaluation , technological control , education and social futures .
26 After spraying , the beetle feeds on the crystallised proteins which react in the insects ' gut , causing paralysis then death four to seven days later .
27 Thus his ideas remained as a potent legacy for the new generation of Marxists which emerged in the 1950s and 1960s .
28 Thus it comes about that the patterns of object-relationships which exist in the unconscious inner world determine the kinds of immature object-relations which people sustain in their outer world .
29 This is n't intended for the profound jottings which occur in the back of the van after a gig ( to be auctioned at Sotherby 's when you are dead ! ) .
30 Ranulf stopped his chatter and when Corbett drew his sword so did his companions as a blatant warning to the dark shapes which lurked in the half-open doorways .
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