Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun sg] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armoured men with swords had clanked down the stairwells here ; now the steps were used by gunmen in grubby camouflage fatigues whose rifles lay propped against the walls of the round towers . |
| 2 | It is noticeable , however , that the shift came nowhere near eradicating disparities in regional employment opportunities which were heavily influenced by the high degree of concentration of the old staple industries : thus , at the extremes , unemployment in London and the South-East was 56% of the UK rate in 1973 and in the North 174% . |
| 3 | In each West Court there were large cylindrical granaries , and the curious pattern of paved causeways suggests that the granaries , as well as the temple entrances , were focal points . |
| 4 | While most middle-class women say they dislike housework and most working-class women say they like or do n't mind it , there are some in each class group who deviate from this pattern . |
| 5 | Whereas here and in that range name it 's still referring to row twenty six . |
| 6 | As he finished shaving he found he was grinning broadly at his reflection in the mirror ; in that jungle dawn he knew he was as happy as he had ever been in his life . |
| 7 | I thought that was , that was a really good line in that cook thief his wife their lover film where he went , he said something about she 's great except she will keep popping to the John and then he went she 's got a bladder like a leaky marrow |
| 8 | Every night — in that twilight time which comes between being awake and falling asleep — Sylvia was to lie in bed and spend some minutes concentrating on relaxing her mind and her body and establishing a regular breathing pattern . |
| 9 | In that ten-year period there was a slight decrease in overall first admission rates ; — 4 per cent for males and — 16 per cent for females . |
| 10 | In that case Jim you say to your staff that you 're gon na have a dialogue with Dave and myself , with a view to confirming how it will be implemented as far as your organization is concerned . |
| 11 | ‘ The whole story 's in that exercise book I found . ’ |
| 12 | A recent survey has shown that most American urologists will also test for prostate specific antigen in any patient in that age group who walks into their office . |
| 13 | " It was only water in that medicine bottle I drank from ! " he had protested again and again . |
| 14 | So you just put it on your in that steel table I made |
| 15 | The technique used to train suppression of the interference is ‘ shadowing ’ , whereby the listener reproduces in speech word-for-word a source language message in that source language itself . |
| 16 | When he 's been putting his fingers in that birthday cake there 'll be trouble . |
| 17 | The frequency of ‘ pouchitis ’ in ulcerative colitis patients who have colectomy and pouch construction contrasts with the apparent rarity of pouchitis in patients who have the same operation for familial polyposis . |
| 18 | The first is a group of Certificates in Advanced Engineering Practice which will be awarded on completion of six HN Units . |
| 19 | However the modish concept of " proto-industrialisation " ( above pp. 4 – 5 ) has led to a dominant image of women 's work as having been hidden because in rural cottage manufacturing it , as with the work of children , was subsumed in a family unit of production in which it was neither separately waged nor described . |
| 20 | The position of the Dip.HE courses offered by the colleges and institutes of higher education has been causing the Welsh Office some concern because some of the units in specific subject areas which make up the courses have been recruiting small numbers of students : in 1980–1 , for example , between 30 and 40 per cent of them were enrolling fewer than eight students . |
| 21 | Thus these issue networks provide a kind of intellectual community in specific policy fields which to some extent transcends traditional political boundaries between Congress and the executive and between the layers of government in the American federal system ( this is examined in more detail in chapter 16 ) . |
| 22 | However , since in auditory word recognition we hear the different sounds of a word in sequence , it is possible to make use of contextual information after we have heard part of the word — in which case such information can be used effectively . |
| 23 | The client will in due course bill its parent for the work . |
| 24 | In due course Tommaso himself brought the wine . |
| 25 | Third , high social service expenditure has resulted in high taxation rates which , in turn , have undermined both work incentives and business initiative and fuelled inflation . |
| 26 | It is less easy to see its immediate relevance to those in social work practice who are managing services or directly working with older people . |
| 27 | Largely because of their native climate and sparse grazing , they are small animals standing perhaps 100–110cm at the withers on the islands and weighing 300–350kg , but in improved mainland environments they reach 116–122cm and can weigh 50 per cent more than the island cattle . |
| 28 | Indecent material may only be displayed in licensed sex shops which have no window display and can not be seen into from the street , do not admit people under 18 years of age and which carry a warning sign to this effect over the door . |
| 29 | But the 15 per cent fall in Allied 's pre-tax profits , mostly a result of disastrous dabbling in foreign exchange markets which lost £150 million , leaves the company vulnerable . |
| 30 | If a country faces a current account deficit due to a sudden rise in the value of its imports , there will be an increased supply of the domestic currency in foreign exchange markets which should depreciate the exchange rate . |