Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [is] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In normal circumstances it is difficult to know the limits of one 's own capability , let alone those of the organization . |
| 2 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 3 | In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear . |
| 4 | To a certain extent this made economic and political sense : in economic terms it is where the council had most leverage and control , and in political terms it represented a move to a new base , one built on the strength of the white-collar and public sector unions in the changing economy and society of Sheffield . |
| 5 | In cubic terms it is seven times the size of Louis XIV 's palace at Versailles . |
| 6 | Women can expect to have between live and eight children as a general rule , and in rural areas it is not uncommon for women to have up to I5 pregnancies . |
| 7 | In spatial coordinates it is given by This may be found easily ( in this case ) by substituting for the Xi in the material expression above or , somewhat laboriously , by evaluating . |
| 8 | In acute diseases it is generally adequate to look only at the symptoms of the acute disease itself . |
| 9 | In specific terms it is our professional duty to stand back and , acknowledging that the resources to acquire everything are not available , to provide a service that is balanced and unbiased and tries to meet the demands of a clientele that itself must judge what is good and proper . |
| 10 | In social terms it is a rather heterogeneous group , although it almost certainly excludes the lowest income groups , who may be caught in the housing and job ‘ traps ’ in inner-city areas ( Department of the Environment 1977a ) . |
| 11 | In foreign affairs she is only one national leader among many . |
| 12 | Again and again in different documents it is emphasized that ‘ in the sacrament of the eucharistic bread the unity of all believers is both expressed and brought about ’ ( Lumen Gentium 3 ) , the Eucharistic celebration is ‘ the centre and culmination of the whole life of the Christian community ’ ( Christus Dominus 30 ) . |
| 13 | The radial shields are usually covered although in some specimens it is possible to see the outline of distal end . |
| 14 | It is by no means so simple for the insurer who is ignorant of that until in some senses it is too late . |
| 15 | Gardner points out that some street remarks , like endearment terms , are ambiguous : in some circumstances it is acceptable and even kind to greet or compliment another . |
| 16 | In some circumstances it is desirable to refine the boundary description down to give a more detailed geometric description in terms of wireframe modelling ( in this case circles and boundary lines ) or surface and solid modelling ( to give cylindrical surfaces or rotational solids ) . |
| 17 | In some circumstances it is possible to arrange for training for someone from your own institution . |
| 18 | But in some questions it is not obvious what you are assessing ; it is implied . |
| 19 | Nonetheless it remains true that the most common explanation of large numbers of unrecovered hoards is warfare , though in some instances it is believed that economic factors also played a part ; in the latter cases a currency or political reform is thought to have rendered the coins worthless and hence the owners would not have bothered to recover them . |
| 20 | In some instances it is essential for students to have access to automatically processed information in connection with their academic work , particularly involving the use of the computer terminals . |
| 21 | In some instances it is possible to break down these rates further by motive or other circumstances . |
| 22 | The problem comes in how these terms are defined : it is , for example , only at best very approximately true that nouns are ‘ the names of persons , places or things ’ , or that verbs are ‘ doing words ’ ; and in some instances it is not true at all . |
| 23 | And we think er in some cases it 's very expensive . |
| 24 | That 's right , it 's erm its empirically verified that in developing countries er the civil service or the , the government sector is very very large relative to the , to the economy , now whereas say U K or somewhere like France the government public and semi public er organizations employ ten percent of the , the workforce , perhaps a bit , bit more in France than the U K erm in developing countries the government sector can be , you know , over half of the total urban , urban employment , in some cases it 's seventy and eighty percent of er employment . |
| 25 | Erm yeah if er you have no objection , what it 's for is the , there 's this outfit called the British National Corpus and they 're trying to make a record of English Language as it 's used in the late twentieth century erm so it 's a sort of resource for further scholarship so it can assist in writing dictionaries and studying grammar and , and all sorts of things like that and erm they 're attempting to tape conversations from all over the place erm er I 've got a bit of bumph about it , it 's quite interesting erm and in some cases it 's sort of out of erm er it 's out of people 's homes , it 's out of broadcasts , it 's out of meetings , it 's out of all sorts of things erm at work and at home erm |
| 26 | In some cases it 's hoped patients will be in and out of hospital within a day . |
| 27 | In some cases it 's even making a loss . |
| 28 | All the different interest groups have suddenly been allowed to come out into the open and in some cases it is a question of each for himself and damn the rest . ’ |
| 29 | However , reality intrudes on such constructions , as indicated by the gradual widening of the category ‘ inner city ’ to refer also to ‘ outer estates ’ and then to whole cities , like Bradford ; in some cases it is even used as a code for whole regions of deprivation in conjunction with that other metaphor , the North-South divide . |
| 30 | In some cases it is possible for a district to be equated with a large town , but in other cases a desire for districts to be larger has produced curious and often locally resented combinations . |