Example sentences of "in [pron] [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | First , when governments want to make relatively large adjustments in their budgetary positions they may rely more upon changes in taxation than changes in public expenditures . |
| 2 | In their financial affairs they have been abnormally secretive . |
| 3 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 4 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 5 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 6 | In their broadest terms they refer to the whole issue of the supply of labour : do taxes affect the choice of occupation , the individual 's drive for promotion , the number of hours worked , the rate of productivity , labour mobility , the decision to retire from work , to emigrate , and so on ? |
| 7 | In their own refectories they ate a ceramic-reinforced , drug-laden booster diet in silence , ending with a prayer recited by an older initiate . |
| 8 | The Normans were ruthless conquerors , but in their own domains they knew what to preserve ; and Palermo remained , like London , the most populous and prosperous city of its region . |
| 9 | Yet in their own terms they seem fairly content with their lives , and they do not rail against the fate that has left them with this role . |
| 10 | Still in their independent reveries they walk closely together as they near the end of the park . |
| 11 | In their later years they joined forces , and there is a photograph showing them together excavating one of the ‘ Danes ’ graves ' in 1898 . |
| 12 | In their later writings they had been forced to acknowledge , in the light of much critical evidence , that their biologically determined criminal was only one of a variety of types : their theory had become eclectic and multi-factorial . |
| 13 | While sexually mature males may remain in their natal troops they have little access to females , unless they are of especially high dominance . |
| 14 | Mr Manson added that society did not seem to realise that alcohol and drugs caused the brain to malfunction and permit ‘ those who take them to do acts , even murder , which in their sane moments they would be horrified even to contemplate ’ . |
| 15 | And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life . |
| 16 | They may feel that a good will can take the form of seeking to relieve suffering out of sheer compassion , without thought of duty , or of a direction of intent upon ‘ the good , the true , and the beautiful ’ in whatever concrete shapes they present themselves as realizable . |
| 17 | In our Church they see bigotry ; in our homespun cloth they see provincialism ; in our wooden ploughs they see something primitive ; in our fallen bridges they see corruption . |
| 18 | In our Church they see bigotry ; in our homespun cloth they see provincialism ; in our wooden ploughs they see something primitive ; in our fallen bridges they see corruption . |