Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [pers pn] are " in BNC.

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1 Under permanently wet conditions , small mammal bone becomes soft and easily broken , and it has been found that small mammal bones preserved in wet caves become extensively broken , whereas in dry caves they are better preserved , but other factors may also modify such an assemblage .
2 IIb : in economic terms they are qualitatively different .
3 Even for the three vertebrate cases , the ways in which the wing is constructed are quite different , although in each case they are modifications of the same fundamental structure , the pentadactyl limb .
4 Automatic systems usually have an in-feed/out-feed conveyor and sufficient forklift trucks to feed the system — again in each case they are not operating within the crane and storage area .
5 In that history you are writing , ’ he said offhandedly , ‘ do you mention the old legend about Charlotte ?
6 Since the effects of the damage are largely restricted to language , the disruption can not affect the whole brain , so in that sense we are justified in thinking of the brain as consisting of functionally independent modules .
7 The young people I know pay no attention to such dictates and in that sense they are far ahead of the politicians and the priests .
8 In desperation , in many cases , young females deliberately become pregnant because they know that once they are in that state they are immediately restored to the benefit system .
9 In that case we are still unclear how a ‘ meaning ’ account , in terms of actors ' choices within a set of rules , relates to a claim to have identified what ‘ really ’ moves them to particular actions .
10 In the first place , in the ( rare ) cases where sentence-meaning exhausts utterance-meaning ( i.e. where the speaker meant exactly what he said , no more , no less ) , the same content would be assigned both to semantics and pragmatics In other words , we would need to restrict the notion of utterance-meaning in such a way that we subtract sentence-meaning , and in that case we are back to a definition of pragmatics by residue .
11 Thinking of the crowds " spreading terror in Teheran " , Marenches says he replied , " sire , in that case you are lost . "
12 In that respect they are better off than those who simply inherited the wealth , and now have no real idea how to set about replacing what they have lost .
13 In social housing we are working alongside our colleagues in Wimpey Homes and , by presenting a combined capability to the marketplace , we believe that 1993 will see us both reinforce Wimpey 's position as market leader in the provision of social housing in the United Kingdom .
14 Yet in another sense they are similar , both being components of aggregate demand , i.e. types of spending which create income for others in the economic system .
15 I prefer not to speculate about that er at this stage , particularly in public session we are tha that is the current estimate of project cost .
16 In this vein we are seeking a mandate from you to continue after this conference in the task of monitoring government employment and training policies in the area , encouraging open debate on these policies , and publicising our findings .
17 People can feel impelled to find out what their confusion and disorientation of feeling is about , and while in this state they are vulnerable and need a great deal of skilled support .
18 In this text we are in part challenging this straightforward relation .
19 And I can see that for the tasks that lie ahead of you in this school you are splendidly equipped .
20 And this independence is further supported by the existence of the ‘ velar-raising ’ rules in other Ulster varieties : they are carefully described by Gregg ( 1964 ) for Larne , and by Patterson ( 1860 ) for nineteenth-century Belfast , and so in this case they are plainly of some antiquity .
21 In this case they are less able to perform their exclusive and critical functions 1–3 .
22 As reports flood in [ in this case they are drawn from contemporary accounts ] groups must produce a front page story about the cholera .
23 The House will understand that , although we prefer these matters to be resolved by competitive tendering , in this case we are effectively talking about a single supplier , so it is vital to get the contract right .
24 In this case you are a genuine victim of society .
25 An interface , in computer jargon , is simply a means of connecting the computer to the world outside its box — in this instance we are concerned with connecting printers but it could equally be a cassette recorder , joystick or another computer that we wished to connect .
26 In this instance we are again studying a very real struggle , with gangs looting , scavenging and turning to organised crime as a means of scraping together a living .
27 In this instance you are sadly at fault , my lord , ’ retorted Joanna .
28 It should be noted that in this offence we are not dealing with the hypothetical by-stander .
29 In this issue we are looking particularly at working with nature , it that 's not too simplistic a way to put it .
30 In this issue we are not challenging the value of medical expertise but rather its dominance in relation to health sciences , resources and health knowledge .
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