Example sentences of "[subord] in [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 2 | Where in his character-drawing O'Brian touches the reader 's imagination by the unexpected , Forester satisfied his readers by helping them to a complete acquaintance with his officers and men . |
| 3 | Few craft activities of the early Anglo-Saxon period have left any archaeological traces except in their finished products , and metalworking is notable for its near absence . |
| 4 | Except in their occasional introductions , science textbooks do not describe the sorts of problems that the professional may be asked to solve and the variety of techniques available for their solution . |
| 5 | They 'd see us coming hours before we got up there on foot , the girl would have been spirited away before we got anywhere near her and nobody would speak to us except in their incomprehensible dialect . |
| 6 | The eating disorders and other forms of addictive disease may not be seen at all except in their extreme forms . |
| 7 | If planted along contours , the grass , which is unpalatable to livestock except in its early growth stages and thrives even in arid areas , will rapidly form easily managed hedges that act as a wind-break as well as a trap for eroded soil particles . |
| 8 | Thirdly , by its very nature , abuse is likely to be ‘ hidden ’ and difficult to discover ( except in its grossest forms ) , with the abused person , as well as the abuser , having a stake in keeping it secret . |
| 9 | She was said to be the most handicapped person in Britain at that time , since , due to a rare muscular disease , she was paralysed throughout her whole body except in her big toe . |
| 10 | Except in his early letters to Helen , his reticence about his passionate courtship is almost complete — a fact that may explain , if not excuse , the coldness with which many of his friends and family received Helen 's slightly idealized accounts of their life together in As It Was and World Without End . |
| 11 | Mr. Wilson : We have noted with interest the declaration from the Hon. Member for Tayside , North ( Mr. Walker ) that he will support Stagecoach everywhere except in his own backyard |
| 12 | except in your own garden |
| 13 | Since Sartre and Althusser there have been a number of possibilities : for some , the absolute historicism of the Frankfurt School has become increasingly attractive , although in its current manifestation in the work of Habermas we might say that history has been eclipsed far more effectively than by any comparable French philosopher . |
| 14 | Although in its current form participation in the scheme is voluntary , companies will need to sign up in numbers if they are to meet the mandatory rules which might come into play towards the turn of the century . |
| 15 | A poor Provençal family might find their great son 's version of a familiar dish lacking in savour , although in its original form it would have made , with a saucerful of olives and perhaps a dish of fresh figs , an entire meal . |
| 16 | Although in their own eyes the rebels had simply been fighting for what was rightfully theirs , from the point of view of Henry II and Richard they were disturbers of the peace , and as princes maintaining the peace within their dominions , the Angevins could generally rely on the support of the church . |
| 17 | She started piano lessons at about the age of six , although in her early years her musical interests were more in the direction of ballet . |
| 18 | As an adult she was able to see how wrong it was and she knew that they were indulging in something they should not have been doing — although in her childish innocence she had not been aware that it was anything more than an extension of the love and affection she felt for other members of her family . |
| 19 | Although in her 94th year it was always a pleasure to visit . |
| 20 | I had never lived there , although in my early childhood I had stayed for short periods ( but then my mind was occupied in forming pictures ; the time had not yet come for looking at those pictures , for interpreting them ) . |
| 21 | There is little point in getting worked up about the way different people use words ( although in my nonprofessional life I am quite prepared to get worked up about people who boil lobsters alive ) . |
| 22 | Although in your native country , England , there are in my epoch six times as many people as in 1816 , nevertheless , the individual is guaranteed a much better chance to lead a life free from catastrophe and , if catastrophe occurs , a much better chance to be helped to recover . |
| 23 | Although in his new post for less than a month , Alf has made such an impression at Polypropylene Park that throughout the League his team are already being nicknamed ‘ Busby 's Test Tube Babes ’ . |
| 24 | His mentor in the early years was William Cobbett [ q.v. ] , and although in his political radicalism Doherty went beyond Cobbett , the attack upon ‘ Old Corruption ’ always remained an essential part of his attack upon contemporary society . |
| 25 | Although in his later years , Einstein was to involve himself more and more in social and political matters — especially pacifism and Zionism — he was fundamentally a theoretical physicist through and through . |
| 26 | His outburst , following McKendrick 's denial of the existence of absolute moral principles ( p. 78 ) , impolitely reverses the agreement maxim to emphasise his disagreement and although in his next turn he apologises for his outburst , the impression made by his interruption remains strong because it is accompanied by a violent gesture : The importance of physical gestures as a part of the dramatist 's characterisation is indicated by this episode , for , as Stoppard 's stage directions emphasise , Anderson 's anger is strongly conveyed through the one physical action . |
| 27 | Hillary was acclaimed not only as a born writer but also as a representative of the doomed youth of his generation , although in his constant self-analysis he was in fact a most untypical British fighter pilot of 1940 . |
| 28 | Like the CMEA , the WTO was established more in furtherance of political objectives than in its self-declared ones . |
| 29 | The building itself exists , although it is rather more prosaic in its material than in its imagined form ; it is close to the mansion and the brooding trees are gone . |
| 30 | But it was an action far more deeply rooted in the local and social customs of Scotland than in its political traditions . |