Example sentences of "[coord] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew they would return ; perhaps tomorrow , in a year or in a million years , but they would be back . |
| 2 | This may take the form of requirements for reports , returns and information or the holding of enquiries , or in a few cases the issuing of directions , e.g. by the Secretary of State for Education to a local education authority . |
| 3 | But this week , the members of John Major 's new administration , whether reappointees or freshmen , will simply emit a long sigh of relief and satisfaction , and think of England ( or in a few cases , Scotland , Wales or Northern Ireland ) . |
| 4 | Executive Director of the Tour , Joe Flanagan , says : ‘ It is not a pleasant task to tell a girl that she is off the Tour for the next four weeks , or in a few cases , a whole year . |
| 5 | A second dominant trend in the twentieth century is the gradual extension of democracy , but as I showed in Chapter 1 this was a slow and halting process in the interwar years , with democracy being suppressed in several European countries , by fascist regimes , the Stalinist dictatorship and the dictatorships in Portugal and Spain , while in the colonial territories it either did not exist at all , or in a few cases only in rudimentary forms . |
| 6 | But no blows were struck then , or in the similar crises of 1051 and 1052 , when Edward the Confessor first secured the expulsion and then accepted the return of the powerful Godwin family . |
| 7 | So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut . |
| 8 | The ways in which the various tools are used are described here or in the various chapters throughout the book — cutting and bending pipe , for example , in Chapter 2 ; the correct way to use an immersion heater spanner in Chapter 4 . |
| 9 | For example , agricultural production might be organised on the basis of the master-slave relationship , as in Ancient Rome or in the southern states of the USA , or based on the lord serf relationship , as in feudal Europe , or on the capitalist-proletarian relationship , as in modern Western societies . |
| 10 | ‘ I know all the King 's spies and agents , whether they be working in the court of Castille or in the Papal Chambers in Rome . |
| 11 | It is only if a strike remains in the news for a long period that anything of its history or underlying causes will emerge and then only in the ‘ quality ’ press , rarely on television or in the tabloid newspapers where most people obtain their information . |
| 12 | As many of the battles with the Hunters were either fought on inhospitable and barren asteroids or in the upper atmospheres of colonial planets , both pieces of knowledge were essential for survival . |
| 13 | Risk-takers and innovators in underdeveloped economies tend to be found either in highly speculative enterprises such as property development and money lending or in the liberal professions , the traditional home of the unproductive intermediaries . |
| 14 | Institutions can directly reflect political circumstances , and there can be no divorce between the implications of that feudal relationship and its expression in ‘ constitutional ’ forms — in appellate jurisdiction , in the devices used to delay homage or evade services , or in the administrative expedients whereby rights and revenues were upheld and increased . |
| 15 | This is very unusual , for most livebearers normally have fry during the night , or in the early hours of the morning . |
| 16 | Return will be on Sunday , 2 May , late evening or in the early hours of Monday morning . |
| 17 | ‘ They come in the night or in the early hours of the morning , ’ Bimal told me . |
| 18 | He said someone who was in the area last Friday night or in the early hours of Saturday must have seen the two attackers . |
| 19 | The GEP is aimed at individuals with a viable business project that may be at the planning stage or in the early stages of trading . |
| 20 | ‘ When I was at university , doing my professional training or in the early years of practice , I always worked with women women solicitors , women bankers and so on . |
| 21 | They were written either while he was on solo trips to London or elsewhere , or in the early days of the war when he was in the RAF . |
| 22 | But any economy that was made or in the early days of Hector 's er business , I know , was always saving material rather than time . |
| 23 | No fathers were monitored for exposure at around the time of their child 's conception , or in the four years preceding their child 's conception . |
| 24 | Persons disabled by war or in the armed forces and those disabled at work as a result of injury or prescribed industrial disease have for many years enjoyed reasonable financial provision . |
| 25 | But his new picture of Marie did not take into account those disturbing scenes in her kitchen , or in the pill-box tunnels when her aggressive , violent behaviour had scared him half to death . |
| 26 | The present study shows that substantive uniformity , whether in the message that constitutes the text of the bill , or in the legal consequences attached to the recording , is only attainable when the various participants in the transactions arrive at a consensus with respect to the fairness of their rights and duties . |
| 27 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 28 | ‘ I could n't find any food here or in the other huts . ’ |
| 29 | Writing in 1972 , McGregor suggested that : ‘ the last two decades have witnessed the cumulative removal of restraints both of custom and law upon behaviour , and upon their public portrayal in print or in the visual arts ’ . |
| 30 | Some are working with the displaced or in the controlled zones , carrying out literacy campaigns and press or political work . |