Example sentences of "[subord] in the [noun sg] [pers pn] " in BNC.

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1 In spite of the continuing scepticism and regardless of the clinical faults of the new drugs , many attempts were made to find out how and where in the brain they worked .
2 But the aim is to discover not merely whether there is more radioactivity in the brains of the trained compared with the control chicks , but just where in the brain it is located .
3 There is no set rate for this ; it depends on how many bedrooms you have , the type of property ( whether it 's detached , semi detached , a house or a bungalow and so on ) and where in the country you live .
4 He must be a man now , and she , Cynthia , had not the slightest idea where in the world he was .
5 The council may recommend the nature and form of a reply or correction ‘ including , in appropriate cases , where in the paper it should be published ’ .
6 Counselling was a completely new world to me and although in the past it had been suggested that to combat my periods of depression I might well think of having psychoanalysis , I am now glad I resisted .
7 It is associated with a number of current and planned research projects , although in the past it has not been the practice to undertake substantive research directly .
8 When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying in and in one or two other schools , it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing O Level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying , and in other schools it has happened in other subjects .
9 When the C S Es/O Levels arrive at the beginning of the fourth year , most schools decide to separate out their pupils into different groups , although in the school I was studying and in one or two other schools it 's possible to parallel C S E examinations with the existing ‘ O ’ level examinations and therefore to continue to teach the pupils in mixed ability groups , and that happened in English in the school I was studying .
10 More senior men had perhaps less freedom to diversify , although in the south they all kept gardens and sometimes worked them themselves .
11 Erm the parts of the country where things have been a bit flat seem to be the north and the south west and both of those are regions in which export orders received fell in the previous two surveys so that seems to be consistent although in the north they seem to have picked up somewhat in this survey erm and optimism is also erm er stronger in this survey than it was in the previous one .
12 From the cell body of a neurone there emerge two kinds of processes : relatively short dendrites which carry messages towards the cell body , and a single axon , which may be a metre in length , although in the brain it is usually much shorter , which carries signals away from the cell body .
13 Catholics and Protestants united to raise over 4000 troops for the English defence , although in the event they were not needed .
14 What lovely skill that was by Thomson in a very tight situation although in the end he 's given it away .
15 In sex the body is central , and although in the end it is more than the body that is loved , the body is the beginning and fat women just can not get started .
16 And he managed to live until he was seventy-one , much longer than the expectancy of any hellraiser , although in the end it was the drinking that took him in 1988 .
17 In Ego Dormio he explains to the Sister that as she grows in her love of Christ , she will find nothing matters to her but this love and the sin of man which disfigures it , and that all this is focused by thinking on the Passion of Christ : Although in The Form he makes it clear to Margaret that it is difficult to be too prescriptive about meditation , since God will put the kind of thoughts into her heart that are right for her , he does say in Emendatio Vitae that beginners in spiritual life may find the words of others helpful ( 8.120.31 – 2 ) and on occasions he himself wrote meditations on the Passion which embody his understanding of the catalysis they are designed to help .
18 Michael Marland has talked about the disappearance of deference and I think that 's the biggest change really that the kind of instant erm response to authority has gone and that has good and bad sides in it , so more is demanded of the teacher because his authority has to be earned , much more even than in the past I think .
19 Throughout the pamphlet Hic Mulier seems to be in sympathy with this remark of Montaigne 's , but nowhere is her appropriation of the idea more challenging than in the way she dissolves both law and ideological fixity into a celebration of change and transformation , and , by implication , a celebration of her potential rather than her fixed nature : ‘ Nor do I in my delight of change otherwise than as the whole world does ’ ( sig .
20 This is nowhere better illustrated than in the case we used for our basic illustration of good design itself — echolocation .
21 The reason may lie in what happens to the teachers themselves when they first encounter it , rather than in the use they make of it directly with children over a long period .
22 Despite desperate attempts to revive her , the trace remained stubbornly flat , until in the end they had to give up .
23 He remained silent , watching her , and her embarrassment grew until in the end she set her glass down with a bang and in desperation said , ‘ So are you going to tell me what 's been happening to you in the last five years ? ’
24 They had fought their way backwards through pantries and brushing rooms and knife rooms , past the European servants ' staircase , past the European butler 's room , the nurseries , the nursery dining-room , and the ayah 's rooms , until in the dining-room he knew he would have to make a stand .
25 I propose to call her , but if in the event I judge it to be unnecessary then I shall invite because I do n't want to add unnecessarily to the length of these proceedings .
26 If in the meantime we can be of any further assistance , I shall be honoured — ‘
27 However , she agreed to see the therapist is an outpatient , and to use open access by telephone if in the meantime she felt unable to cope with her difficulties .
28 If in the future you wanted just to change your louvres ,
29 Although the project was a disaster , costing France £10 million , and counter-productive in giving Greenpeace much-needed publicity about France 's nuclear tests , it at least gave the DGSE some confidence that if in the future it accepted another Henry II-type command it would have the backing of its politicians .
30 If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ?
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