Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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1 | In that six weeks they had become friends , and it was a very satisfying feeling . |
2 | In that ninety seconds I want every one of the 13 million viewers to concentrate on the speaker — not on someone else scratching their nose in the background . |
3 | When at the end of June it still was not finished , the buyer informed the seller that if it was not ready in another four weeks he would then regard the contract as repudiated . |
4 | They were past Jedburgh by noon , and Ramsay , who now was in country he knew fairly intimately , pointed out that in another ten miles they would be out of Teviotdale , with Teviot joining Tweed at Roxburgh and Kelso . |
5 | In another ten years they can come and visit me to their hearts ' content and I wo n't object . |
6 | In some political systems it has indeed practically no other function . |
7 | In some other respects it relied on centuries of evolution of peasant society . |
8 | In some recent studies we have been investigating how factors that have a simple theoretical relation with name and role mapping , gender cue and congruity with verb bias , interact with the difficulty of other world-knowledge based inferences needed to establish the referent of a pronoun . |
9 | In some prognathous insects they tend to lie more forward on the ventral wall of the head ( see p.29 ) |
10 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
11 | In some older dances they each hold a corner of a handkerchief to form a link and in some areas they link little fingers . |
12 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |
13 | In some urban areas it can comprise as much as 40 per cent of the stock and up to 100 per cent of houses over considerable tracts . |
14 | I said ‘ What do you mean ? ’ in such shocked tones she believed me straight away . |
15 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
16 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
17 | So er when schemes by the good service of actuaries can be re-written in such extreme terms I begin to worry about it and I think it needs an input for more than one direction on the actuarial fund in our case the trustees saw fit not to use actuaries to get away |
18 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
19 | He had , but in these new circumstances it might be unwise to admit it . |
20 | Anyway , in these vague expectations I was mistaken . |
21 | Even in these great spaces we seem unwilling to let go of the reins . |
22 | In these remote parts we try and work His Will and shew His loving mercy to many of these forsaken and heathen Souls . |
23 | In these rural parts it was usually a case of potter in the garden , or off to church or chapel . |
24 | Expressed in these general terms it is easy to see how such a code of rights could be regarded as a " good thing " . |
25 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
26 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
27 | In these early days I got overwhelmed very easily . |
28 | In these violent thermals it is possible to be flying with a good margin of speed at one moment and to be falling with virtually no speed the next . |
29 | We 've never had a big dog before , but we thought in these violent days it might protect us . ’ |
30 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |