Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once established they can be left planted year round ; in my own garden they have multiplied annually . |
| 2 | In their metaphorical indiscipline they had gained ‘ new status ’ and slipped across a boundary into marginality , for as Foucault ( 1977 : 25 ) has suggested , the idea of discipline revolves around control of the physical body and ‘ proceeds from the distribution of individuals in space … it is always the body that is at issue — the body and its forces , their utility and their docility , their distribution and their punishment ’ . |
| 3 | In their headlong rush they naturally tend to get their corners knocked off at each bounce , so they end up as peculiarly smooth , rounded lumps , the smoothness being the result of mechanical abrasion . |
| 4 | As all these , including buddleia , flower in their second year they soon supply more seeds to the young sward . |
| 5 | In their second match they beat Northern Transvaals target of 222 for 2 , thanks to a second wicket partnership by Curtis and Weston . |
| 6 | In their pure form they have neither corporate nor competitive strategies as defined above . |
| 7 | First , when governments want to make relatively large adjustments in their budgetary positions they may rely more upon changes in taxation than changes in public expenditures . |
| 8 | Indeed , for all but those organisations which know precisely how much additional manpower they need and for how long , in their simple form they are a particularly unsuitable means of employing temporary workers . |
| 9 | He usually persuaded rather than forced , and her mother simply battered down any opposition with her tongue ; but they could do it , and in their present temper they would . |
| 10 | Partnerships in the UK are a contemporary feature ; in their present incarnation they date from the mid 1980s and since then have grown remarkably into a national phenomenon . |
| 11 | In their financial affairs they have been abnormally secretive . |
| 12 | Under succeeding Labour governments in the 1960s demands for planning became more obtrusive in political rhetoric and in their practical aspects they involved the promotion of industrial reconstruction whether through mergers in the private sector or yet more reorganisation within the nationalised industries . |
| 13 | In the dithyramb , but only in the dithyramb , the chorus are oblivious of everyday existence : in their ecstatic state they identify entirely with their proto-dramatic part . |
| 14 | Repetition is something many students avoid at all costs , and in their early music they tend not to repeat a single bar in an entire composition . |
| 15 | Unfortunately , there were so many restrictions — and charges were so high — that in their early years they never really took off . |
| 16 | There are considerable differences over the interpretation of the three methodological practices , but in their general form they are common currency amongst Marxists . |
| 17 | This enquiry found that the airship trials had been unsatisfactory and in their final report they stated that ‘ … no Government department , high official or group of individuals was held to be responsible ’ . |
| 18 | In their final game they defied normal logic and won the hardest game in their section by defeating the much fancied Holland , courtesy of a piece of outstanding arrogance by the diminutive midfield dynamo Archie Gemmill . |
| 19 | In their final declaration they undertook " to democratize further our societies and consolidate democratic institutions in our countries " . |
| 20 | In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs |
| 21 | In their national survey they found that : |
| 22 | Particularly in their polemical passages they have a freshness and directness , such assurance that the world is now their oyster , that it is easy to forget that they did not go uncriticized . |
| 23 | In their broadest terms they refer to the whole issue of the supply of labour : do taxes affect the choice of occupation , the individual 's drive for promotion , the number of hours worked , the rate of productivity , labour mobility , the decision to retire from work , to emigrate , and so on ? |
| 24 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 25 | At the highest level of society there were the names given to the great tenants-in-chief who held their estates directly of the Conqueror , and it must be remembered that if these magnates were already powerful in their own country they may even have brought locative bynames with them , as was the case of William de Moyon already mentioned . |
| 26 | In their own refectories they ate a ceramic-reinforced , drug-laden booster diet in silence , ending with a prayer recited by an older initiate . |
| 27 | In their own way they were the spiritual precursors of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ Star Chamber ’ . |
| 28 | While the Danzig Poles were not keen for the city to come under Polish rule , they were nevertheless determined that they should not be penalised for being Polish , and in their own way they were proud of their identity — even if it did not quite amount to ‘ nationality ’ in a conventional sense . |
| 29 | In their own way they all felt the same . |
| 30 | The Normans were ruthless conquerors , but in their own domains they knew what to preserve ; and Palermo remained , like London , the most populous and prosperous city of its region . |