Example sentences of "in [adj] [adj] [noun] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In present-day western society we have cultural goals of material success : plenty of money , a big house , flash cars , pretty girl/handsome boy , for example . |
| 2 | They could both tell that in normal social circumstances they would have disliked each other . |
| 3 | Feminist psychology also often accepts psychological clichés about black women : for instance , that in low socioeconomic groups they are more powerful than black men or white women ; or that they are sexually delinquent ( e.g. Rainwater 1972 ) . |
| 4 | In literate urban societies it can provide valuable quantitative information on such topics as education , health , housing , social class , racial attitudes , income distribution , family-structure , the mass media and so on , thus contributing to the identification and understanding of important social issues . |
| 5 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 6 | In Scottish legal history he is remembered also as the Judge who presided at the trial of Burke and Hare , the Edinburgh body-snatchers who turned to murder . |
| 7 | But although such classifications may sometimes be useful in guiding empirical research they do not seem to me to take up directly the most important questions , which are those concerning the significance of social movements in the process of reproduction and transformation of total social systems . |
| 8 | For example , in so called traditional societies the political , economic and educationalfunctions all tend to be fulfilled by the same umbrella institution , whereas in so-called modern societies we have separate social structures and organizations to deal with politics , the economy , education and so on . |
| 9 | In contemporary political debate it is ‘ Victorian values ’ which are presented as the high point of family responsibilities , implying that Utopia existed somewhere around the middle to end of the nineteenth century ( West , 1984 ) . |
| 10 | Though the novel is not the sole domain of either narrative or fiction , in contemporary Western culture it exemplifies both . |
| 11 | Always an independent spirit , Rita nevertheless acknowledges certain strong influences in her movement career — Edith , Molly , Rita Horton , and in Coburg , Jutta Holler-von der Trenck ; she believes that her feeling for the importance of expression in movement , and her interest in the choreographing of taped music derive from her contact with Christa Haring , whose classes in Contemporary Dramatic Dance she attended . |
| 12 | The claim is implicit in the child 's own social interactions and unless we are blind or acting in chronic bad faith we can do no other than acknowledge it . |
| 13 | When in early Christian Rome they converted pagan temples into churches , they removed all the symbols of the old religion which could be torn out without endangering the structure . |
| 14 | In early sixteenth-century London it was customary for the most pious lay people to rush from church to church in order to be present at as many elevations of the host as possible in a single day . |
| 15 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 16 | Another is the ease with which it is assumed that in actual democratic politics it should be the majority in each nation-state which has the right to decide on all issues . |
| 17 | They are pale pink , in dark skinned races they can be pigmented , and they are firmly attached to the teeth . |
| 18 | ‘ And these poor fellows , ’ Mr O'Hara added , ‘ they 're in real bad trouble I 'd say , would n't you ? ’ |
| 19 | In standard economic theory it is argued that regulation is required if market failures occur . |
| 20 | In large transient hotels it is not practical to confirm in writing every reservation , as guests come and go at short notice . |
| 21 | If the two novels were to be recast in late post-Freudian terms it would be clear how completely our attitudes have changed towards amatory and social matters : it is difficult to read the Ruritanian stones now in the way Anthony Hope 's first readers did and not to dismiss them as mere escapist romances . |
| 22 | Unpredictable escape patterns of this kind have been called ‘ protean ’ defence systems because like the figure of Proteus in ancient Greek mythology they repeatedly change their shape . |
| 23 | In capitalist industrial society they include the relationship between employer and employee and the various rights of the two parties . |
| 24 | While the top three or four companies now seem to be in reasonable financial shape it is the medium-sized firms in the top thirty that are feeling the pressure . |
| 25 | In poor black areas it is common for half the class to fail to graduate ( which , in America , means merely failing to stay in school until you are 18 — there is no national exam for school-leavers ) . |
| 26 | The rounded leafy plants do best in fertile , moist soil with some sun and shade ; in poor dry soil they become small and straggling . |
| 27 | In poor physical condition they set off under the blazing sun , marching for fifty minutes and resting for ten . |
| 28 | In full diplomatic uniform he rode to the palace on a richly caparisoned mule sent to him by Menelik : in Abyssinia mules were more highly esteemed than horses . |
| 29 | Finding herself in severe financial straits she went along to the appropriate authority to ask for money to buy food for her children . |
| 30 | In harsh numerical terms we did n't accept the Policy Committee guidelines , we felt that they in some ways were over generous and we aimed for , we purposely , deliberately set ourselves lower targets with point we 're two point six million below the Liberal Democrats for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |