Example sentences of "[coord] in the [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Then added more calmly : ‘ There 's been nothing on television or in the papers about any cut on the victims ’ foreheads . |
2 | A general name for the familiar demon or mischievous spirit who dwells in private houses or in the chinks of trees . |
3 | 5.12.4 Unless the Landlord shall otherwise direct to carry out and complete before the expiry of the Term any works required to be carried out to or in the Premises as a condition of any planning permission which may have been granted during the Term irrespective of the date by which such works were required to be carried out It is understandable that a landlord will wish to ensure that the tenant not only complies with planning legislation but also does not make application for planning permission without the landlord 's consent . |
4 | ( 1 ) Subject to the provisions of this Act , no person shall , except during the permitted hours : ( a ) sell or supply to any person in any licensed premises , or licensed canteen , or in the premises of a registered club any alcoholic liquor to be consumed either on or off the premises , or consume in , or take from , any such premises any alcoholic liquor . |
5 | Families in the rural areas or in the countries of emigration may provide financial assistance for some of their unmarried males to travel many hundreds of miles to seek employment . |
6 | But even without looking he 'd known that her clothes — all her dresses and her coats and her cardigans and her shoes were no longer in her wardrobe or in the chests of drawers she shared with his father in their bedroom . |
7 | Possibly de Moivre was one of Bayes 's teachers , so that Bayes may have learned of the problem directly from him , although he may equally have encountered it first in his writings or in the Observations on Man , His Frame , His Duty , And His Expectations ( 1749 ) by David Hartley [ q.v . ] . |
8 | Six men had bled to death there in the snow or in the arms of friends and relatives as they carried them home . |
9 | Such a spreading strategy is useful when the price of the middle contract is out of line with the prices of the near and far contracts , and the trader is not able to predict whether the adjustment will be primarily in the price of the middle contract , or in the prices of the near and far contracts . |
10 | Many of the social workers ' functions require them to act as controlling agents , or in the interests of children against irresponsible or cruel parents , or to safeguard the community against a dangerous or disruptive mentally ill person . |
11 | When you act in the light of knowledge which is in your own self-interest or in the interests of your group or class , this is not bravery but absolute necessity . ’ |
12 | It may , of course , happen that he deliberately holds himself out as a partner for his own private benefit and not in the course of his work or in the interests of the firm . |
13 | The following is an example of a suitable clause : It is hereby agreed that notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the Articles of Association the investor shall be entitled at any time after Completion to transfer all or any part of the investor 's shares to another investor or investors approved by the Managers ( such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed ) to the intent and effect that any such investors shall be entitled to the benefit of all such provisions of this Agreement and Articles of Association as the investor shall require and the Managers and the Company shall do or procure to be done ( insofar as it lies within their respective powers ) all such matters and things , including the execution of all such documents as shall be necessary or which the Investors shall reasonably require for the purpose of giving effect to the provisions of this clause . |
14 | We did n't have time to play on the beach or in the streets with the other kids . |
15 | One of the most commonplace simplicities in the 1980s was that there were two alternative forms of industrial relations available to employers in Britain : one was based on employee involvement , flexible forms of work organisation , single-union deals or no union representation and the other persisted with multi-union representation , traditional forms of work organisation , strict workplace discipline and offered employees little opportunity for direct participation in their work or in the affairs of the enterprise . |
16 | It was the premium put upon child labour within the domestic family economy of textile manufacture which provides the context for Defoe 's observations of around 1720 on Norfolk that " the very children after four or five years of age , could earn their own bread " , while at Taunton " there was not a child in the town , or in the villages round it , of above five years old , but , if it was not neglected by its parents , and untaught , could earn its own bread " . |
17 | There has been no change , for example , in the management of Iraq ( Mr Hussein hangs infuriatingly on ) or in the dogmas of Iran ( it still sees confounding the West as its sacred duty ) . |
18 | There are special arrangements for people living in the Highlands and Islands of Scotland or in the Isles of Scilly . |
19 | My journey , I realised now , was not one that had begun at fixed point ‘ A ’ and would run to ‘ B ’ : crossing space — by canoe or donkey or in the footsteps of — was not what it was about . |
20 | The material , long hidden in KGB files or in the memories of intelligence operatives , is up for grabs as ageing ex-KGB agents come in from the cold to trade in their undercover pasts for over-the-counter assets . |
21 | And so they do , on the shelves of libraries , or in the pages of textbooks . |
22 | Whatever novelists may believe about the universe , they do not demand of their readers a formal belief in God or the Devil , or in the forces of history , and the tolerances they expect are wide . |
23 | The most conspicuous financial gains by English combatants were made in the earlier phase of the Anglo-French wars or in the wars with Scotland — the esquire John Coupland , who captured David 11 of Scotland in 1346 , received lands worth £500 a year and the status of banneret , and many in the English army at Poitiers in 1356 received rich rewards ( 88 , p.30 ) . |
24 | In films such as My Beautiful Launderette , Passion of Remembrance , and Sammy and Rosie Get Laid , or in the paintings of Sonia Boyce and others which formed part of The Other Story exhibition at the Hayward Gallery in 1989 , complex intersections of sexuality , ethnicity and class are imaginatively constructed through representations which break decisively with the framework of positive and negative images . |
25 | or in the leg-feathers of the deafening macaws . |
26 | Multiculturalism , as expressed in the Swann Report or in the writings of Jeffcoate , James , Lynch and Parekh , is based on the premise that the key issue facing schools is how to create tolerance for black minorities and their cultures in a white nation now characterized by cultural diversity or cultural pluralism . |
27 | Even the half-mortals do n't know — they still think Undry 's lost , or in the hands of the dark powers . |
28 | He obviously thought her friends would either be dead , or in the hands of the Gestapo . |
29 | Already 24 of the 64 units are let or in the hands of solicitors and another 22 have attracted specific applications . |
30 | A much larger number helped at home or in the homes of neighbours and kin : ‘ At one school , where only twelve are returned as regular wage-earners , ‘ nearly all ’ are said to be employed … |