Example sentences of "in [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will it be the Minister , the Secretary of State , the employers , the trade unions or some quango in which failed Tory Members of Parliament serve on inflated salaries ? |
| 2 | Midway through the afternoon there was the longest grind comp , in which dreadlocked local favourite Colin was beaten surprisingly by Richie , the Pete Rodgers for the nineties , whose reliably long stand-ups proved too much for everyone else . |
| 3 | It is often argued , for example , that concepts of country and city give us decreasing analytical purchase on the way in which advanced capitalist societies are developing . |
| 4 | This conclusion is strongly supported by our studies of men and women in Hertfordshire and Preston in which reduced fetal growth was associated with high blood pressure , impaired glucose tolerance , and raised plasma fibrinogen and factor VII concentrations in each social class and at each level of cigarette smoking , alcohol consumption , and obesity . |
| 5 | Nor did they speak nicely or carry handbags from Étienne Aigner in which reposed American Express Gold Cards . |
| 6 | This was a wicked demon who lived beneath a primordial swamp , in which seethed evil beings and spirits . |
| 7 | It was an uplifting finish to a safety-first schedule , in which organised verbal prospects like a press conference , lecture , or major broadcast interview were interspersed on a daily basis with endless and undemanding photo-opportunities . |
| 8 | Even if the messages were not true ( and she had no hope that they might be true ) at least somebody believed sufficiently in their truth to pay cash for them , to rent hoardings and to put up posters for them , and that in itself offered some kind of alternative : Christianity meant nothing to her , but she was glad that in despite of her mother 's defection , it existed . |
| 9 | Depending on slide size , up to about 24 slices can be flattened in one timed half hour run . |
| 10 | I arrived breathless and late , having been delayed in what seemed heavier traffic than usual . |
| 11 | A very powerful account , And I Do n't Want To Live This Life , was written by the mother of a girl who , from infancy , had behaved in what seemed abnormal ways . |
| 12 | The British , in late 1940 , began to integrate command for all three services deployed in what became Combined Operations . |
| 13 | In Britain , Huxley introduced this kind of physiology from France and Germany from the 1850s ; and in the last quarter of the century his pupils ( trained in South Kensington , in what became Imperial College ) filled chairs in British universities , where the field was now becoming separated from medicine . |