Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 2 | Its powers , however , do include a measure of budgetary control and the Commission is responsible to it and can , in the final analysis , be dismissed by it , so that in political terms it enjoys a potential influence of considerable substance which , however , it has not yet fully developed . |
| 3 | In rural areas it assumes a greater significance , comprising , in 1971 , 24 per cent of the total housing stock compared with 21 per cent nationally , although this proportion is falling quite rapidly everywhere . |
| 4 | In split-brain patients it has been shown that the left hemisphere retains language function , the right does not . |
| 5 | In social situations it has to be recognised that there is at least one other sentient being present who has his own objectives which might accord with or oppose those of the first person . |
| 6 | Given the amount of calls and the fact that they 're telephoned in different areas it seems a lot of trouble to go through if it was a hoax . |
| 7 | In repeated versions he explains laboriously that Gandalf forced Bilbo on Thorin out of some Valinorean ‘ foresight ’ ; or because he knew hobbits were stealthy ; or because he thought Bilbo had the right ‘ mix ’ of Took and Baggins ; while as for the word ‘ burglar ’ , it was all a dwarvish misunderstanding . |
| 8 | I feel that in some senses it becomes almost about a certain strain of purity — that we would rather have a demonstration of 50 people on maybe a fuller , total political programme , than we would a demonstration of 50,000 people on maybe more limited aims but nevertheless political aims that we do feel carry us forward , but which could draw into activity a broader range of people . |
| 9 | In some instances it provides child guidance clinics , which offer psychiatric and social work help to children who have behaviour problems or manifest symptoms of mental disorder , and to their parents . |
| 10 | ‘ In some instances it has been sheer luck for members of the public with either guns jamming or security force patrols intercepting the terrorists . ’ |
| 11 | After all , the postclassical position recognises that variability in human criminal motivations plays a part in accounting for the prevalence of crimes : it would not be too damaging to the overall position to allow that in some cases it plays the major part ( provided that the exceptions only constitute a tiny proportion of total crime — which would certainly be the case with sexual abuse of children ) . |
| 12 | ‘ In some cases it does , ’ said Mervyn and then went out of the room . |
| 13 | In some cases it helps to imagine the place where the picture will be hung , although this information is not always available , particularly if the picture is intended as a present . |
| 14 | It is true that in some cases it happens that the recipient does not find the punishment painful , or even welcomes it — for example , some offenders might find prison a refuge against the intolerable pressures of the outside world . |
| 15 | Someone who gives this answer clearly takes it that in some cases it works , and we must not beg the question against him . |
| 16 | In some cases it has not been clear from the notes to the accounts whether the directors consider that they have departed from a specific statutory rule and that the true and fair view override is being invoked . |
| 17 | In some cases it has been found in the exemption from liability of the released party to be sued by his co-contractors , as where the released party is already bankrupt . |
| 18 | In some cases it has led to violent confrontations requiring police intervention . |
| 19 | As the stepping rate is increased the pull-out torque gradually reduces , until in some cases it reaches zero at a finite speed , the value M shown in Fig. 5.8 . |
| 20 | But in some cases it seems more probable that they are deliberately engineered by the virus to help it to travel from one host to another . |
| 21 | In some debates it appears that traditional farming is regarded as systems of high input of fertilisers and pesticides which started in the 1950 's and are still progressing and developing today . |
| 22 | In some areas it goes further in its handling of Stalinism than the conventional wisdom in the Soviet media , and certainly than official party spokespeople have done . |
| 23 | Emergency admissions develop a momentum of their own , not least because in some areas it seems the only way to get a place in a local authority residential home ( Sinclair , 1988b ) . |
| 24 | However , the Community has always had variable depth in its integration — in some areas it has been deeply integrated and in others there has been shallower integration . |
| 25 | In some winters it extends as far north as the limit of cold Antarctic surface waters , i.e. to the Antarctic Convergence , particularly in the Pacific and Atlantic sectors of the ocean . |
| 26 | But in some respects he seems to be left over from a previous age . |
| 27 | Phylloxera is generally considered to be the greatest disaster in French viticultural history , but in some respects it has also been a blessing . |
| 28 | In some respects it seems to be idiosyncratically determined , and in other respects predictable . |
| 29 | In some respects it resembles the wartime leadership style of Lloyd George ( 1916 — 22 ) and Winston Churchill ( 1940 — 5 ) . |
| 30 | In some districts it has been impossible to make it available to everyone . |