Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] [pron] [vb base] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women in better paid jobs can negotiate better conditions especially for nannies who live in . |
| 2 | He exhibits a number of adjectives which differ in precisely the way required while maintaining the same or essentially the same lexical value ( we modify his examples slightly where it is possible to do so without damage to his case , so as to make the distinction sharper ) : ( 19 ) visible stars vs stars visible the only navigable rivers vs the only rivers navigable a handy tool vs are your tools handy ? guilty people vs people guilty As it happens , the examples which Bolinger uses employ words which can make the distinction a rather subtle one , with perhaps the exception of visible stars ( a group recognized astronomically ) beside stars visible ; but it is quite easy to produce further instances which seem to confirm his view : ( 20 ) a complaining visitor vs a visitor complaining the eligible bachelor vs the bachelor eligible In other cases , the divergence of lexical value between the two positions may be greater but still with the characteristic value for the former , and the occasion value for the latter : ( 21 ) the responsible man vs the man responsible a sorry sight vs the girl is sorry He notes that the acceptability of an adjective in pre-adjunct position may apparently depend on whether or not it can be regarded as indicating a relatively enduring characteristic of what is expressed by the noun , as in : ( 22 ) the faint girl vs the girl is faint an asleep man vs a man asleep This possibility of course depends not only on the adjective itself but also on the nature of the noun being qualified , so that " when one scratches one 's head the result is not *a scratched head but when one scores a glass surface the result is a scratched surface " . |
| 3 | One way of looking at the effects of the kind of industry they work in is to see whether black people and whites living in the same area — inner cities for example — have similar rates of unemployment . |
| 4 | They are given certain targets or quotas to fulfil , depending on the kind of institution they work in . |
| 5 | In the seventies the women 's movement exposed the prevalence of violence against women and provided safe passage in the network of refuges which exist in about a hundred cities . |
| 6 | Do you know anything about them at all , their form and what sort of leagues they play in ? |
| 7 | Yeah sort of thing , so I have heard you say only three is that the number of posts they put in ? |
| 8 | I 've just had a Polo all they 're looking at is like what kind of accents you talk in |
| 9 | Most people will be asked 14 questions about their age , sex , race , marital status and the kind of home they live in . |
| 10 | The loss of confidence which set in after Stalingrad was not least a consequence of the totally misleading and outrightly mendacious German propaganda which had preceded the catastrophe . |
| 11 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 12 | and that obviously affects the kinds of problems they have with regard to income , benefits , debt problems erm and with regards the kind of things they come in to see us about , things like single payments f for things . |
| 13 | I gather there are plenty of crackpots who go in for that sort of thing . |
| 14 | ‘ But the course is n't cheap , and we do deal with cases of people who get in over their heads financially . ’ |
| 15 | erm you know we know the special case officers in each of the areas , and we also liaise erm on behalf of people who come in with problems to them . |
| 16 | The majority of people who come in are angry because they ca n't get anywhere . |
| 17 | In what ways might each of these proposed developments reduce the pleasures of people who live in or visit the area ? |
| 18 | Again , your postcode indicates the sort of area you live in and this information can also be used by companies to estimate your purchasing power . |
| 19 | Like a lot of people in the sort of society we live in , you feel very isolated from everything around you and you do n't know the neighbours and you are only barely on speaking terms with the shopkeeper . |
| 20 | The kind of society we live in — broadly the industrial capitalism which is being embraced by more and more of the world — is making us prone to the alienation and isolation on which madness feeds . |
| 21 | Another possibility is to charge water according to the type of property you live in , for example , one band for a detached house and a lower band for a terraced houses . |
| 22 | That presupposes there is no relationship between the impact of films we make , like Rambo , and the kind of world we live in . |
| 23 | ‘ Is that the kind of world we live in ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ But that is n't going to happen , ’ said Mike Morrissey , ‘ not in the sort of world we live in . |
| 25 | Cats are normally extremely efficient at regulating the amount of food they take in . |
| 26 | Now I do n't know if you 've been brought up on a diet of men who jump in and out of bed with whatever women take their fancy , but if you have then I suggest you go find one of them to satiate your appetite . |
| 27 | The city was just recovering from one of the usual bouts of plague which come in late winter ; its citizens , however , sensed the worst was over and the streets buzzed like an overturned hive . |
| 28 | The Katmandu meeting has called on expeditions to reduce the amount of supplies they bring in , make more use of local produce , carry out their own waste , and be more efficient in their use of fuel . |
| 29 | If you would like to see me on top of Michael 's bonfire ring in and the er th th the more amount of votes we get in for that |
| 30 | And in the sort of market we work in , there are people around the world who are n't suffering from the recession and do still want to buy fine cars . |