Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was at our sanctuary in Rossett feeding him this morning . |
| 2 | The original costs £890 but you can look much the same for £30 and go wild in accessories to add your own signature . |
| 3 | In terms of note issue , for instance , its volume was more than equalled by that from country banks , although this in part reflected its own increasing specialisation in discounting . |
| 4 | In the words of Gallopin and Berrera ( 1979 ) ; ‘ They ( the poor ) may be forced to destroy their own environment in attempts to delay their own destruction . ’ |
| 5 | Sexism became an issue partly because women were meeting in groups to examine their own experiences and attitudes . |
| 6 | The United Kingdom contributes nine rural monitoring sites to this programme , and in addition has its own Secondary National Acid Deposition Monitoring Network of 50–70 rural sites which can identify regional patterns in precipitation acidity ( figure 4.7 ) . |
| 7 | But if a trip abroad could result in Ben giving her some of those hot , steamy looks that handsome Ross was throwing his own wife 's way — well , she would n't complain too much about that ! |
| 8 | In the third lesson , pupils worked in pairs to produce their own diagram to show the rabbits . |
| 9 | this college on fire , eighteen million goes up in flames mind you that 's a boring headline really . |
| 10 | Next up was David Stewart of Charles Wilson Booksellers , a veteran of the school market , who warned that Roy Davey 's suggestion that ‘ it was down to every publisher to be in schools selling their own books ’ would in his view lead to chaos . |
| 11 | Villagers and fisherfolk in Manila ( Philippines ) , West Bengal and Tamil Nadu ( India ) , and in Mexico used their own resources rather than technology to achieve particular results . |
| 12 | Guinness Foreign Extra Stout labels in Indonesia have their own unique symbols — a cat and a red-tongued dog . |
| 13 | If he went against this young man sitting opposite him , he would in effect dig his own grave . |
| 14 | Hand-outs to the poor will merely reduce the pressure for such change and are particularly pernicious if they are given by the rich , who are in effect purchasing their own privilege at a small price . |
| 15 | All staff who have a telephone extension will in effect have their own direct telephone line . |
| 16 | in February had your own thoughts begun to cristalize about what needed to be done in response to the article ? |
| 17 | We now just wish to be left in peace to live our own lives and be afforded the same respect as any other family in Passfield . |
| 18 | When , in 1988 , the School Boards Act provided for almost all education authority schools in Scotland to have their own boards , major aims were greater involvement of parents in school affairs , increased contact between school and the community , and the progressive freeing of education authorities from routine school administration . |
| 19 | Two nuclear power stations in Scotland broke their own record for 24 hours of electricity production last month — then matched the new total the following day . |
| 20 | North Korea had decided in May to drop its former insistence on a single Korean seat , following South Korea 's success in gaining assurances that the Soviet Union and China would withdraw their opposition to the South 's entry into the UN . |
| 21 | An 11-week armed siege by Mohawk Indians in Quebec , in defence of local land rights , was the latest manifestation of national and increasingly militant struggles by indigenous people in Canada to control their own affairs [ see pp. 37448 ; 37519 ] . |
| 22 | I myself work for a newspaper ( Gulp ! — IM ) and believe in individuals having their own opinions ( Why work for a newspaper then ? — IM ) . |
| 23 | As each separate town in Prague had its own town hall and guild system , such guild buildings proliferate . |
| 24 | It may be that it may help those in business understand their own , or their trading partners ' standard terms ; however , it is not intended that it should be used by persons without legal knowledge to draft standard terms without legal advice . |
| 25 | Still able to see the problem , they no longer knew where to find its solution , and seemed happy in consequence to embrace their own annihilation . |
| 26 | Yet Barclays and Lloyds have spent much time and energy privately rubbishing Switch , in efforts to promote their own debit cards . |
| 27 | Federal Premier Ante Markovic , in a combative address to the Federal Assembly on Nov. 15 , accused the political leaderships in Slovenia , Serbia and Croatia of deliberately obstructing and undermining his government 's economic and political reforms , in efforts to preserve their own power . |
| 28 | Charlie and May Docherty of St. Bride 's Parish in Cambuslang did what many elderly folk do . |
| 29 | This was readily given and ended in Lena lending her own ribber attachment to Mrs Dibble . |
| 30 | In 1951 about four million people in Britain owned their own homes ; by 1985 this figure had risen to 14 million , with 62 per cent of the total housing stock being owner-occupied ( Social Trends , 1987 , p. 137 , table 8.1 ) . |