Example sentences of "in the [noun sg] [conj] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between 1950 and 1960 the Indianapolis 500 was included in the championship but it was rare for a European Grand Prix driver to compete in the race , and vice versa . |
| 2 | Scotland have looked the most dangerous side in the championship when they have moved the ball . |
| 3 | Nicolle gave the Channel Islands their first ever victory in the championship when he edged out the defending champion 7-1 , 3-7 , 7-6 , 1-7 , 7-2 . |
| 4 | Prost 's result does little to further his cause in the championship if he has to drop his lower scores but Senna now knows that he must win the final two races in Japan and Australia . |
| 5 | There is something wrong with the relationships , there is as well as somebody doing the abuse , there are other people who are somehow complicit in the abuse because they 're allowing it to go on , they must have known , surely they must have known , why did n't they do something ? |
| 6 | She had been to one of their meetings , and was even more confirmed not only in the conviction that they were right , but that her own group should get involved in trying to organise women to campaign for wages for housework . |
| 7 | This order , as its name suggests , was developed as a richer example than the Corinthian , but it is only in the capital that it differs materially . |
| 8 | Her London home was used as a hostel by the Scottish rank and file who needed a bed in the capital as they were posted from one place to another , and all were made welcome . |
| 9 | When Quakers lost at Plainmoor at roughly the same time last season , there was still plenty of encouragement in the performance and they recovered to win the Fourth Division . |
| 10 | Sanders ca n't be all that interested in the Plan if he takes a few days vacation rather than give the presentation . |
| 11 | You could either go and try and control the people to get more work out of them , which you would do , but the other option is to say , well , I recognise that my plan was optimistic , let's change the assumptions in the plan and you 're going to improve , therefore , your planning . |
| 12 | The Somerset captain would have been quite within his rights to have declined to play after 6.30 in the chance that it might rain hard enough on the third day to prevent any play . |
| 13 | In the West although we are only 20 per cent of the world 's 3,000 million we have 90 per cent of the world 's income , 90 per cent of its gold reserves , 95 per cent of its scientific knowledge , 70 per cent of its meat and 80 per cent of its protein . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , mystical movements are no more prevalent in the West than they have ever been from the Dionysian rites to the temple of Aimee McPherson . |
| 15 | And Iran is as unpopular in the West as it has ever been . |
| 16 | It is possibly true , and though the challenges presented to the Western bishops on the nature of the Church ( Donatism ) and about grace and free will ( Pelagianism ) were serious enough , theological debate rarely seems to have aroused the same passions in the West as it did in the East . |
| 17 | Debt earns interest just as easily in the West as it does in the Third World . |
| 18 | Try to imagine , if you will , the ferocity of the reaction in the West if it had been Saddam Hussein who had poured napalm down on Kurdish villages three weeks ago ! |
| 19 | Such a girl would be much admired in the West and we would think her very beautiful indeed . ’ |
| 20 | Well I think that we have shown that we 're prepared to support Gorbachev in so far as er peace reform in the Soviet Union , but I think we 've got to look towards our own security in the West and we 've done very well with NATO , with the defensive block NATO over the last 40 years or so , and until we can have cast iron guarantees that Gorbachev is going to be secure and that he 's actually going to carry out his promises we 've got to keep our guard up . |
| 21 | This belief in ‘ independence ’ is well entrenched in the West and it has developed out of a general mistrust of centralized political power and of power that had historically not tolerated the free expression of dissenting views . |
| 22 | The appearance at Fairford is the first time they 've appeared in the west and it 's a matter of immense pride to them . |
| 23 | control contacted me yesterday to say that erm due to loss of system last week , and the fact that the Easter weekend erm is looming up on us , it means that they 've , they 've got insufficient time to run all the jobs that they needed to erm in the space that they , they would like to run them in . |
| 24 | Denis had sat downstairs in the sitting-room while it was going on , praying fervently to the Child of Prague , or was it to Uncle Mick , to protect his little European wife from all her pain and bring her safely through . |
| 25 | It was hanging on the wall in the sitting-room but she had n't seen it the night before . |
| 26 | ‘ He always wants candles in the sitting-room when it 's dark , even though he 's blind . ’ |
| 27 | She did n't realise that Guy Sterne had joined her in the sitting-room until he spoke from behind her chair . |
| 28 | sometimes there are odd days in the vac when we do other things and we shut , you |
| 29 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 30 | Thorny presents sugar lumps in a plastic bowl and smiles ; she expects something sinister in the smile but it is guileless . |