Example sentences of "[coord] in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The media are full of stories of attacks in which black people are assaulted by gangs of white youths in the street or in which black families have their houses regularly attacked . |
| 2 | ‘ Football on the continent has changed and the results in both groups of the Champions League show that sides are now willing to attack at home or in their away matches . ’ |
| 3 | HMI lost no opportunity in ramming the message home , whether in individual school reports , in the ‘ Education Observed ’ and in the ‘ Curriculum Matters ’ series , or in their annual reports on the ‘ effects of public expenditure policies on educational provision ’ . |
| 4 | The expressed intention of the proposed changes is to give priority to those disabled from birth or in their early years . |
| 5 | They would be segregated from members of the caste system and lived on the outskirts of villages or in their own communities . |
| 6 | The CAS Director saw more than 130 practices during the year , either at the RIBA or in their own offices , to offer help and advice . |
| 7 | Under the Act the Poor Law acquired the responsibility of visiting and supervising , in institutions or in their own homes , children who had been the subject of cruelty proceedings . |
| 8 | Robin SeQueira , Dorset director and ADSS junior vice-president , says cash constraints may force some local authorities to cap the cost of caring for people , either in residential care or in their own homes . |
| 9 | The enangan had no subsequent special rights either in the girl or in her future children though her children addressed him by a title used as a respectful term for " Father " among some neighbouring groups . |
| 10 | ‘ The rule as to unsoundness is that if at the time of sale , the horse has any disease which either actually does diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , so as to make him less capable of work of any description of which in its ordinary progress will diminish the natural usefulness of the animal , or if the horse has , either from disease or accident undergone any alterations of structure that either actually does at the time , or in its ordinary effects will , diminish the natural usefulness of the horse , such a horse is unsound . ’ |
| 11 | There is , so far as I know , no solid evidence for any of these beliefs ; nor is there much to show that the family is , in fact , changing in its significance within society or in its psychological implications for child upbringing , albeit that pressures upon it are increasing just as they are upon individuals by reason of the increasing complication and tempo of life in Western society . |
| 12 | Not in business , or in my private affairs . |
| 13 | There was no effort or affectation in his ease with old people , or in his good manners . |
| 14 | As part of Stone Grove , a four-piece band who have spent the last two years quietly writing and recording in the relative obscurity of Clapton , east London , Simon has been revising , reassessing , investigating his roots , or in his own words , ‘ taking notes ’ . |
| 15 | For each of us ( it is said ) our lives are given sense by certain projects , whether it be that of being a certain sort of person , or of achieving something in such fields as the political , or cultural , or in our personal relations . |
| 16 | Samuel does not feature at all in the story with which we are concerned , nor in its immediate sequels . |
| 17 | Housman then kept his version by him for the rest of his life , not collecting it in A Shropshire Lad , nor in his Last Poems ( 1922 ) . |
| 18 | Yet , it plays little part in standard accounts of the history of English before about 1600 , and in ME stop-deleted forms ( such as bes , lan : ‘ best , land ’ ) are amongst the forms that are typically corrected by textual editors as errors . |
| 19 | Woodhouse had made its reputation by setting the trends , not following them , and in its early days carried labels such as YSL and shirt specialist Verte Valle . |
| 20 | Upper Halling has its own team and in its early days this team played in the field opposite the Robin Hood , and I have been told of near carnivals on Sunday afternoons . |
| 21 | This prescription may be made both in the scope provisions of the Convention and in its substantive provisions . |
| 22 | The aim of this programme is to investigate , analyse and clarify the various linkages between government and industry that exists both in this country and in its major competitors . |
| 23 | Concern with the functioning of elites in politics is as old as the study of politics itself , and in its earliest forms relied on common-sense assumptions , which are still the starting-point of much research , about the inevitability of the appearance of select groups of dominant individuals wielding political power in any given society . |
| 24 | Marking his first anniversary in power , President Ferdinand Collor de Mello announced a National Reconstruction Plan on March 14 , aimed at restoring public confidence in his government 's determination to secure stable economic growth in the medium term , and in its flagging efforts to control inflation [ for March 1990 , February 1991 anti-inflation plans see pp. 37312 ; 38002 ] . |
| 25 | A gurgling burn looms before you and in its cool streams you immerse your weary feet . |
| 26 | But she knew also that his better self would struggle to serve her best interests and in its better moments was quite selflessly caring ; and so she had long ago ignored the pettiness , the commerce and the insult of the worse self . |
| 27 | In the absence of intelligence and in its lowest stages , Life is , as we expressed it , unorganised . ’ |
| 28 | The more one looks at it , the more interesting this field becomes , both in its applications and in its wider implications for medicine as a whole . |
| 29 | On all sides , both in the government service directly and in its associated echelons of closed institutions , corporations , committees , and ‘ quangos ’ , there had been evidence of a loss of national confidence . |
| 30 | Its infant post-Communist democracy chose extreme PR , and in its late-1991 elections paid the price . |