Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [noun pl] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She looked at these objects in my hands for some time and then raised her eyes to my face . |
| 2 | The blood boiled in my veins for some great adventure . ’ |
| 3 | Many of the fish species migrate from one river system to another : they can travel 20–30 km upstream in a single day and seeds can remain in their guts for 1 7 days . |
| 4 | We need to be reasonable in our demands as parents are also under pressure to dig in their pockets for spare cash to support brownies , cubs , clubs , churches and a whole range of other worthy causes . |
| 5 | For the most part the relief sought by each of these four appellants in their procedures for judicial review is the same , though somewhat differently expressed . |
| 6 | Now you 're gon na want a pin , these are rather small pins , I recommend that peop people who have got large hands try and fit their first aid kit out with large pins , they 're much easier to handle , but firstly they do not put pins in their mouths for obvious reasons , either , either have it on the table open ready or just pop it in the front of shirt while you do this bit , okay ? |
| 7 | They had food in their saddlebags for two days , and the pack mules carried grain and hay for the horses , there being little forage in the hills the patrol would traverse for the first two days . |
| 8 | Throughout history moral philosophers , jurisprudentialists , anthropologists and sociologists ( in their quests for universal moral ideals , natural law , cultural universals or minimum requirements for social life ) have all , of necessity , been led into speculation about basic human needs as foundation stones for their theories . |
| 9 | Laird 's strength in the tackle and his straight running should have interested the watching Edinburgh selectors and he is likely to feature in their plans for next season , as will scrum-half Fraser McMillan , who also had a fine game . |
| 10 | As the ambulance left the scene , neighbours , who had been kept shut in their houses for two days , began to emerge into the sunshine . |
| 11 | It should be possible for clergy and teachers to ensure both that churches include some of the school 's repertoire in their own , and that schools make room in their assemblies for some traditional hymns . |
| 12 | and Macpherson of Cluny J. ) given on 18 January 1991 refusing them the relief claimed in their applications for judicial review of decisions made in relation to each of them by the Secretary of State for the Home Department . |
| 13 | One must fear that Marianella was in their hands for 10 or 12 hours … |
| 14 | As BR and union leaders tried to resolve the problem of finding new jobs for the teams , the men turned up for work each day at Liverpool 's Central Station and simply sat in their vans for eight hours a day . |
| 15 | Many of the prisoners are locked up in their cells for most of the 24 hours in the day . |
| 16 | Prisoners may be left locked in their cells for longer , because there is not the staff to supervise out-of-cell activities or to escort them from place to place . |
| 17 | By an extraordinary coincidence all four have been in the recording studio recently , and have sent in their labours for critical appreciation . |
| 18 | Students , swept along on a wave of optimism , were not alone in their desires for political changes to match those taking place in the economic sphere . |
| 19 | They discovered sweatshops and people working in their homes for long hours trying to erm patch together a very very poor living . |
| 20 | THOUSANDS of people were ordered to stay in their homes for three hours yesterday when toxic smoke was released in a chemical plant fire . |
| 21 | Even four successive nights seemed an almost too generous slice of happiness , and on that fourth night , with the waning moonlight glittering on the sea and the crickets noisy in the hayfield on the other side of the wall , she gazed sadly up at him and asked the question that had been uppermost in their minds for some time . |
| 22 | People today are more outspoken , more assertive in their demands for social justice and more aggressive in the fight for social rights . |
| 23 | She 'd slip away to the kitchen for tea and be washed and in her nightclothes for seven , just long enough to kiss her daddy goodnight . |
| 24 | Greer too , in her hopes for another , truer identity for women , assumes a founding subject , based perhaps on the ‘ body ’ from which The Female Eunuch itself begins . |
| 25 | Or , alternatively , in what way can the religious experience of conversion , both personal and in its ramifications for social change and conversion of community , shed light on the process of profound socio-political transformation ? |
| 26 | Birmingham City Council reported the following in its accounts for 1989/90 : |
| 27 | In its accounts for 1991/92 , Marling says that the going concern basis is dependent on the successful conclusion to a fully underwritten rights issue announced on 26 June to raise about £18m net of expenses . |
| 28 | The importance of the practice lies in its implications for monetary control and we shall mention it again in sections 4.3 and 9.1 . |
| 29 | The EDC concept was perhaps too idealistic to have had great hopes of concrete achievement , and in its implications for European integration perhaps something of a paradox . |
| 30 | ‘ I feel a rough one coming on , ’ quoth he , digging in his pockets for further pharmaceuticals . |