Example sentences of "in [det] [adj] [noun pl] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In some political systems it has indeed practically no other function . |
| 2 | In some other respects it relied on centuries of evolution of peasant society . |
| 3 | In some recent studies we have been investigating how factors that have a simple theoretical relation with name and role mapping , gender cue and congruity with verb bias , interact with the difficulty of other world-knowledge based inferences needed to establish the referent of a pronoun . |
| 4 | In some prognathous insects they tend to lie more forward on the ventral wall of the head ( see p.29 ) |
| 5 | This has been proved in several places : in some arctic localities it is found with trilobites that lived at great depths in the muds of the Ordovician ocean , while in Canada the same species occurs mixed with the inhabitants of the shallow-water seas , where limestones were accumulating . |
| 6 | Well Monsieur Mitterrand has already made it clear that in some important respects I think particularly of defence , erm that , that 's he not going to rush into any changes . |
| 7 | In some urban areas it can comprise as much as 40 per cent of the stock and up to 100 per cent of houses over considerable tracts . |
| 8 | I said ‘ What do you mean ? ’ in such shocked tones she believed me straight away . |
| 9 | He breathes , digests , lifts an arm , takes the next step , without thinking how to do it , and if bad health forces him to analyse and choose in such peripheral matters he is sorry to be distracted from his central concerns . |
| 10 | During the first visit he was in such low spirits he could not bring himself to meet even the faithful Cottle ; during the second , in early April , optimism and humour had sufficiently returned for him to relish a meeting with one especially talkative woman on his homeward walk . |
| 11 | So er when schemes by the good service of actuaries can be re-written in such extreme terms I begin to worry about it and I think it needs an input for more than one direction on the actuarial fund in our case the trustees saw fit not to use actuaries to get away |
| 12 | In these egalitarian times it would take no more than the price of an off-season 's weekend bed and breakfast and the permission of a landowner or two . |
| 13 | He had , but in these new circumstances it might be unwise to admit it . |
| 14 | Anyway , in these vague expectations I was mistaken . |
| 15 | Even in these great spaces we seem unwilling to let go of the reins . |
| 16 | In these remote parts we try and work His Will and shew His loving mercy to many of these forsaken and heathen Souls . |
| 17 | In these rural parts it was usually a case of potter in the garden , or off to church or chapel . |
| 18 | Expressed in these general terms it is easy to see how such a code of rights could be regarded as a " good thing " . |
| 19 | Because I know the scouts do the Tesco one and whenever they are put in these cardboard boxes they have to be sorted so somebody must sort them . |
| 20 | Not er like they bring them in these cardboard boxes you know , wooden boxes . |
| 21 | In these early days I got overwhelmed very easily . |
| 22 | In these violent thermals it is possible to be flying with a good margin of speed at one moment and to be falling with virtually no speed the next . |
| 23 | We 've never had a big dog before , but we thought in these violent days it might protect us . ’ |
| 24 | It is in terms of such a paradigm — broadly conceived , and preferred among the diverse methodological orientations that I discussed in the Introduction for its greater fruitfulness and explanatory potential — that I have analysed political movements , change and conflict throughout this book ; and in these final pages I should like to consider briefly the contribution it can make to understanding the present state of the world and its likely evolution in a medium-term future of two or three decades . |
| 25 | " Virtue is knowledge , all sins arise from ignorance , the virtuous man is the happy man " : in these Socratic maxims we see the formulae of a rationalistic optimism that was — and is — incompatible with tragedy . |
| 26 | He tried making snowballs as he had in Britain only to find that in these low temperatures he was left with a handful of flour-like snow that simply blew away when he threw it . |
| 27 | It is of course penalty kicks at goal which slow down play and I would deal with them very drastically , as in these modern days they quite often determine the result of a match . |
| 28 | In these traditional roles she is shown to be effective . |
| 29 | IN these bleak times it is good to see that one veteran television star has succeeded in resurrecting his career . |
| 30 | External examiners ( to whom in these formative years we were heavily indebted ) spoke well of what they saw . |