Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] [pron] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite the fact that at least one in 10 couples — some researchers suggest one in six — have fertility problems , the new technology results in the birth of a child in only 30 per cent of cases at best ( often the rate is lower ) . |
| 2 | Patios lend themselves in particular to herb cultivation because they are so often sited next to the house and facing the sun . |
| 3 | Round the neck of the bottle was a piece of paper with the words DRINK ME in large letters . |
| 4 | And there 's a filter light and he said oh you 'll be waiting here ages put it in neutral just as |
| 5 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 6 | For more evidence that addictions have something in common in the way they act on the brain as a whole , no matter which pathways they stimulate , look at the pictures on this page . |
| 7 | The underclass is deeply functional ; all industrial countries have one in greater or lesser measure and in one form or another . |
| 8 | Meetings , all companies have them in some way one human being companies . |
| 9 | As well as the growth in the number of low-paid jobs , a significant group of flexible workers find themselves in great demand , and consequently gain high salaries . |
| 10 | Some stories give you in one or two pages exactly enough information about why two people wo n't ever get on , the divisions between them and so on . |
| 11 | Algae reproduce themselves in two ways — by straightforward asexual division and by the sexual method , of such importance to the progress of evolution , in which the sex cells will only develop if they meet each other and fuse in pairs . |
| 12 | If your customers pay you in two months your average monthly debtors outstanding will be £100,000 or 16.7 per cent of your annual turnover . |
| 13 | In part two , as the Featherstonehaughs preen themselves in pristine white tuxedos , flaunting two-foot mug shots offering surrealist images of bodyless faces , hands and legs emerging and retreating , the word precious takes on a different meaning : while yet further connotations appear as the Cholmondeleys , in voluptuous crimson velvet , sensually stimulate the imagination in part three . |
| 14 | These positions have it in common that they express a view about how company law should regulate corporate power in the public interest : by introducing social welfare considerations as explicit decision-making criteria , or by excluding them and relying instead on the benign effects of the invisible hand , guided where necessary by external legal controls . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , semi and unskilled operatives constitute one in eight of all self-employed temporaries and that persons with low grade personal service occupations constitute a further one in ten . |
| 16 | It is also possible that the tribal tattoos which Savage Orc Shamans paint onto the Orcs ' bodies protect them in some way . |
| 17 | All religions use what in classical theology is known as the via negativa — the negative way of speaking about the centre of religious worship or meditation . |
| 18 | Perhaps the cooler attitude and the rigours of endless hours of practice are the reasons why so many top players find themselves in extended slumps and periods of burn out . |
| 19 | It is this ‘ position ’ that homosexuals find themselves in modern Britain that requires further consideration . |
| 20 | Real numbers are both very versatile and very simple , so it is not surprising that learning processes use them in many different ways . |
| 21 | It was another American gesture , though far fewer Americans do it in these cancer-conscious days . |
| 22 | Electrophysiological measures suggest themselves in this context but the problem of artefact , that is , of actual or potential eye movements producing an asymmetry in the EEG record ( Anderson , 1977 ) , would have to be circumvented . |
| 23 | That 's to say that men embody themselves in partial versions of themselves , and then , in order to realize themselves more fully , they have to overcome by many kinds of struggle this previous realization . |
| 24 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 25 | ( This trend has been so insistent that when men find themselves in part-time work economists have begun to call this the feminisation of labour . ) |
| 26 | Sensitivities to foods manifest themselves in many different ways . |
| 27 | Bees collect it in great baskets on their thighs and take it back to their hives for immediate consumption or for turning into pollen bread which is an essential food for their developing young . |
| 28 | Over-active minds affect one in eight men and women , and another one in 10 stay awake through pain or illness . |
| 29 | So that was four men do it in twelve hours , how many in two . |
| 30 | So when the Danes reconsider it in another referendum on May 18th , will most Europeans know what is at stake ? |