Example sentences of "[subord] in [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb . |
| 2 | Hibernation deaths are probably common , although in most cases they probably result in isolated carcases well apart from each other . |
| 3 | C. oncophora and C. curticei are generally considered to be mild pathogens in calves and lambs respectively although in some studies they have been associated with inappetence and poor weight gains . |
| 4 | Erm and if in another division they saw another number erm but their , their particular post only managed to see twenty percent , erm well that tells that the |
| 5 | as if in slow motion they both aimed and fired their weapons . |
| 6 | Cos in those days they did n't . |
| 7 | Past attempts to stop the tearaways have failed because in many cases they have not actually been breaking speed limits . |
| 8 | And the paternalistic traditions of the great landowners could be married relatively easily to the responsibilities of a Welfare State , because in many ways they were not really that different . |
| 9 | Those who changed back to shorter repayment periods , because in this example they carry the same total credit cost as longer ones , show what must be the widely-held feeling that , regardless of loan period , the lower the total cost of credit the better . |
| 10 | Before the war at a luncheon party like this people would have said precisely the same things but they would have sounded different , because in those days they were accompanied by a sort of humming noise , not articulate , but musical , exciting , which changed the value of the words themselves … |
| 11 | Under permanently wet conditions , small mammal bone becomes soft and easily broken , and it has been found that small mammal bones preserved in wet caves become extensively broken , whereas in dry caves they are better preserved , but other factors may also modify such an assemblage . |
| 12 | you 've got the chance whereas in these countries they have n't , if you have n't got a democracy . |
| 13 | Seamen felt themselves constantly under attack from the press , particularly that presided over by Lord Northcliffe , who had given up the conscription campaign , but continued to blacken the character of merchant sailors and firemen , while in other circles they were being lauded for their valour by no less a person than Admiral Sir John Jellicoe himself . |
| 14 | People can feel impelled to find out what their confusion and disorientation of feeling is about , and while in this state they are vulnerable and need a great deal of skilled support . |
| 15 | whilst in some respects they are considered sinful and falling short of the pattern for our life as revealed in the Scripture , make the best moral sense of a situation which is , of itself , flawed . |
| 16 | The successful negotiation of a large French loan to Russia in April 1906 , a matter of supreme importance to statesmen in St Petersburg hard-pressed by defeat and revolution , immediately reduced the need for such payments ; and it is very doubtful whether in any case they made any real difference to the course of events . |
| 17 | The newspaper concluded : ‘ Soldiers might take time to consider whether in this attitude they are not just fixed in the past ’ ( The Daily Telegraph , 12.6.1986 ) . |
| 18 | This can cause misunderstanding and conflict when in later life they talk to one another . |
| 19 | For one thing , the criticism could easily rebound on the people who run these places , when in most cases they know how bad things are themselves but they ca n't do much about it . |
| 20 | Before looking at the day-to-day working of the system in London and Birmingham , it is worth pausing to describe the role of the school care committees , for in both cities they were the vital link in the attempt to make the transition an educational rather than an industrial process . |
| 21 | They either slept in a car or on the ground with a blanket , though in two days they would be far enough south for the nights to be warm . |
| 22 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 23 | Most of the many Women 's Action/Support Groups were founded spontaneously by residents of the communities , though in many cases they were stimulated to act by either or both of Scargill 's rhetoric and the example of other communities — often perceived through the voluminous television coverage achieved . |
| 24 | Transport services were costly and hard to organise ( though in many cases they were extremely carefully organised ) . |
| 25 | The costs of community services to control sample members at both second and third assessments were considerably lower than those of the action samples , even though in both boroughs they increased during the year . |
| 26 | The claspers probably represent the coxites and styles of the 9th segment , though in some cases they seem to be composed only of the styles , the coxites having fused with the sternum . |
| 27 | West Dorset District Council , for instance , was refusing to house people evicted from winter-lets unless they qualified for housing prior to entering such accommodation , even though in this case they would presumably have sought council accommodation in the first place ( Larkin 1979 ) . |
| 28 | And Anglican laymen in America may have felt that a bishop from across the ocean would be harder to influence than the local clergy , many of whom were American by origin , though in several cases they had gone to Britain to complete their education . |
| 29 | Just as in real life they were assimilating a clinical attitude to human functions , many of which are taboo in Western society , their dreaming interpretations of their own sexuality were also in terms of a medical model . |
| 30 | The importance of the police gradually increased , but as in many societies they were often regarded with suspicion , fear or contempt . |