Example sentences of "in [pos pn] [adj] [noun sg] 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 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There are considerable differences over the interpretation of the three methodological practices , but in their general form they are common currency amongst Marxists . |
| 13 | 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 ’ . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In their final declaration they undertook " to democratize further our societies and consolidate democratic institutions in our countries " . |
| 16 | In their entwined sleep they exchanged arms and legs |
| 17 | In their national survey they found that : |
| 18 | On talking to parents , we were told that had there been a suitable provision in their own country they would not be in Budapest . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In their own way they were the spiritual precursors of Mrs Thatcher 's ‘ Star Chamber ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | In their own way they all felt the same . |
| 23 | And because they did not consider themselves sinners therefore in their own understanding they were not lost . |
| 24 | And some of them are good fun pop in their own right they just happen to be done in a foreign language and with different cultural influences . |
| 25 | In their own time they were often called ‘ Condition of England Novels ’ , because they addressed themselves directly to the state of the nation . |
| 26 | This night , while it was not one of their magical occasions , neither had any real complaints but in their natural preoccupation they both forgot that Bobby had a dislocated knee ! |
| 27 | In their later paper they suggest that these two types of anaphor are interpreted with respect to two aspects of text representation that are well-established within psycholinguistics : a superficial or surface-based aspect and a content-based one . |
| 28 | In their third year they will also have the opportunity to combine their chosen subjects in an inter-disciplinary course which will permit them to explore the links between the two . |
| 29 | In their timeless silence they endured his scrutiny , revealing nothing . |
| 30 | They believed , you see , that the tortoise was an animal of great purity — in its hard-soft form they saw the meeting of Yin and Yang , of Heaven and Earth . |