Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems natural to assume that as in the twenty-first century more people live to be very old , more of them will necessarily make heavier demands on health and social services ; that people who die in their nineties experience a longer period of dependency and illness before death than those who die in their seventies . |
| 2 | Police say two crews of men carried out the work and are seeking two men in their 50s driving a red transit van and three men in their 30s driving a small van . |
| 3 | Police say two crews of men carried out the work and are seeking two men in their 50s driving a red transit van and three men in their 30s driving a small van . |
| 4 | Section 4 of the Land Tenure Reform ( Scotland ) Act , 1974. contains no such alternative and subsection 4 of that section provides for a receipt which , like its prototype in the 1914 Act , is not in its simplest form a recordable document . |
| 5 | Neither William nor Charles Frederick had quite the severity of countenance which one associates with Benjamin James : William in his twenties had a pleasant and confident face , with a full mouth which he would allow to be overgrown by a drooping and slightly unkempt moustache in later years . |
| 6 | The door was opened by a nondescript man in his forties wearing a brown overall . |
| 7 | He kissed her briefly on the lips and came into the flat , a slightly-built sandy-haired man in his mid-thirties wearing a heavy black overcoat over a sweater and cords . |