Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [conj] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | She still dealt in stolen goods when she got the chance , but the police were less interested in stolen goods than they had been in the more law-abiding times of some years before . |
| 2 | Britain 's bosses are getting twelve point three percent more in total remuneration than they were last year , their workforce is getting nine point eight percent . |
| 3 | Due to a power blackout , their hotel was in total darkness when they arrived , and they had to trudge up the stairs with their luggage to the 10th floor . |
| 4 | Ms Brenda Dean , general secretary of Sogat ( Society of Graphical and Alled Trades ) said : ‘ The decision will give the green light to a small minority of cynical police officers , encouraging them to build in unnecessary delays when they are investigating their own . ’ |
| 5 | There is no simple answer but it is generally advisable to describe the disappointments in broad terms as they affect the whole school ( ‘ the LEA has been unable to grant our request for extra welfare assistance ’ ) and present the successes individually but anonymously ( ‘ through the efforts of the governors a reading aid has been provided for a partially sighted pupil ’ ) . |
| 6 | They began to meet in private houses where they read sermons and prayed together . |
| 7 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 8 | Parents who questioned what appears to be an unwritten regulation have been told in each case that they are the only ones not co-operating … |
| 9 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 10 | Eileen 's death had made the lot of them aware of depths in themselves and in each other that they had not known of before . |
| 11 | The characters and their conjugal disjunction have indeed been generated out of a play of pronouns , out of ‘ words on a page ’ , for it is due to the lack they experience in each other that they are not able to constitute themselves through each other as subjects . |
| 12 | Right , right but the two's company and three 's a crowd idea is that if you 've got er two people , they , they may have er some libidinal interest in each other and they may have a couple , but a third person is , is just a complication . |
| 13 | People have to choose certain issues in each party that they like best . ’ |
| 14 | the pink bits the bit that fits onto ridge , they 've got three screws in each piece but they only need two to hold them , so I 've taken the centre one out of each one and used it to do the |
| 15 | They concern fine judgements about the time spent in the non-reproductive phase versus time spent in collaborative reproduction and they also concern subtle choices of companion at all times . |
| 16 | The Hanoverian kings were not uninterested in political life but they had difficulty comprehending the complexities of domestic and foreign affairs . |
| 17 | Or complaint examiner , but even then the investment in that person if they come at the end of the year go , I I would say , what a waste . |
| 18 | It 's got , I mean , surely the , the middle peasants or even the rich peasants the group of people that are gon na be most productive in the economy erm so you know your reform has to be fairly moderate in that sense that they have to be able to promote |
| 19 | Rangers have five wins and two draws from their games since the first round of the European Cup in September and respond to the fact that opposing teams are keener to attack them in that competition than they are in the Premier Division . |
| 20 | Then there was always the harvest home dance , and then the school , that was the only place we had to dance in that day and they had it decorated with various kinds of the the the c corn dollies and erm |
| 21 | police took him in that night cos they thought he 'd burnt it out himself . |
| 22 | It 's like a scrum in that cabin when they set off , |
| 23 | Well it well ah but ah but they never they never killed it in that quantity as they 're doing it now . |
| 24 | The wider interests of disabled people could not easily have been taken into account in that case but they were undoubtedly relevant . |
| 25 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 26 | Now we have n't got X in it yet so we ca n't give them the answer in that form cos they |
| 27 | For if that departed order can be allowed any saving graces , it was in that area that they might be found . |
| 28 | And if if a certain family gets stuck in with another family and they 're both trouble causers and they both get moved to the same area it 's gon na cause trouble in that area so they ought to say , Right fifty there , fifty there , |
| 29 | Many years ago the club led a team into the Pyrenees to explore the possibility of wild water rivers in that area and they canoed some very exciting rivers in that region . |
| 30 | You have things like heredity , marriages , divorces , erm some way of life which has to do with Islamic doctrine that you do and some dispute happens , you take it to the Islamic courts and they have religious judges who take it in that context and they go according to the laws of Islam . |