Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | While this is not universally true — there are exceptions on record — it is true often enough that sociolinguists expect to find it in each new situation they study . |
| 2 | All the grown-ups smiled in that boring way they have when little girls are being exceptionally sick-making . |
| 3 | If the long and complex passage of Athenaeus 6 ( 273a–275b ) , which Felix Jacoby gives as fragment 59 , can be considered a trustworthy summary of Posidonius ' views about Roman civilization , two features emerge : ( a ) the Romans preserved for a long time their extreme simplicity of life ; ( b ) in that long period they learnt many techniques from various foreigners ( Greeks , Etruscans , Samnites and Iberians ) and their constitutional principles from the Spartans . |
| 4 | Yet once they have collaborated in this verbal insincerity they reveal an extent of human viciousness no one could have expected . |
| 5 | In this solemn moment they both gazed abstractedly at the sweet trolley . |
| 6 | I think surely we can not deny the facts that the police have received very good funding from this authority , and indeed in this current budget they continue to do so . |
| 7 | It would appear that in this moral stance they were backed by public opinion . |
| 8 | In this worthwhile presentation they have given the steam enthusiast a good variety of shots and locations which keep the interest for the full extent of the film . |
| 9 | When teachers involved with LAMP began to allow their pupils to engage in mathematics in this broader way they found their pupils better able and more willing to question , to transfer and apply their mathematics and to sort out even quite difficult problems . |
| 10 | In this particular case they 're very difficult to identify as a fake . |
| 11 | Sampson used to tie his gloves with straps and whilst batting in this particular game they came loose . |
| 12 | Their minds are somehow not right for it ; in some other discipline they might have performed quite respectably . |
| 13 | However there is no truth in the rumour that in order to utilise funds in some charitable way they purchased Pest Control London North in its entirety . |
| 14 | In some mystical way they actually are Hungarian nationhood , its authority , its manna . |
| 15 | A better answer perhaps is that in some inherited way they carry the ‘ tune ’ of an ancient grief , lulled by earthly beauty but capable of being woken in Frodo in the end , as in Legolas by the cry of the gulls . |
| 16 | But although such classifications may sometimes be useful in guiding empirical research they do not seem to me to take up directly the most important questions , which are those concerning the significance of social movements in the process of reproduction and transformation of total social systems . |
| 17 | ‘ We will keep the ones which are really historic but some of the rest are in such poor condition they will have to be demolished . ’ |
| 18 | Unpredictable escape patterns of this kind have been called ‘ protean ’ defence systems because like the figure of Proteus in ancient Greek mythology they repeatedly change their shape . |
| 19 | In capitalist industrial society they include the relationship between employer and employee and the various rights of the two parties . |
| 20 | The rounded leafy plants do best in fertile , moist soil with some sun and shade ; in poor dry soil they become small and straggling . |
| 21 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 22 | Sharpe reckoned it could not take the enemy longer than an hour to overrun the fragile line of Dutch-Belgian troops , and in one further hour they could have fortified the crossroads to make them impassable to the British . |
| 23 | Tax administrators often see tax theory as a luxury to be indulged in in any odd moment they might have to look up from their files , while tax theorists tend to see the administration and practical aspects of taxation as an easily coped with minor irritant , or deviation , from their ‘ grand design ’ . |
| 24 | And it may be argued that centralist solutions are dangerous , not only because in any particular administration they may be used to bad effect , but because in principle they inhibit freedom . |
| 25 | They would be signs of an unprofessional subjectivism and impressionism ; in recent radical discourse they indicate an undesirable mystification . |
| 26 | In silent single file they walked down the narrow corridor , Lisa staring at his back through eyes that were barely focused . |