Example sentences of "in the [adj] [noun sg] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | A less obvious and regrettably a more common example is where students are presented throughout the course with bodies of facts and procedures to be remembered and applied as faithfully as possible ; then in the final testing they are assessed on their ability to apply their knowledge and skills to new situations , or to explain , justify and discuss the reasons behind procedures . |
| 2 | Students follow a general course in their first year , and in the final year they select one of three specialist areas of study . |
| 3 | This was important because they had a predominantly ‘ social ’ rather than a ‘ professional ’ relationship with users , and it acted as a reminder that in the final analysis they had the power to impose sanctions when necessary . |
| 4 | In the normal legend they represent what is known as a family romance . |
| 5 | I do n't support this blanket band of reducing surplus places for the sake of reducing surplus places , like the district auditor , and if quote right , it 's an accountant looking at erm , looking at figures and nothing else , and I think that is the problem with the issue , erm , we 've seen in other schools , in larger schools , where they 've developed erm , classrooms into a decent library , or resource area , but in the , in the , in the overall spectrum they 're still counted as classroom spaces , and if that classroom was put back er in , into a class , the school would suffer environmentally , because that school would have no library facilities , no resource facilities which it 's able to appreciate at the present time . |
| 6 | In the immediate term they 're determined that there should be no vacuum following publication of the results of the government 's stocktaking of the Scottish condition , expected later this month . |
| 7 | In the nineteenth century they were all categorised together as ‘ the Alderney or French breed ’ said to be bred chiefly on Alderney and to a lesser extent on the other islands . |
| 8 | The sixteenth-century shroud was a voluminous sheet , gathered at the head and foot ends in a knot ; those of the eighteenth century were more tailored , with sleeves and draw-strings ; whilst in the nineteenth century they were fully fashioned . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century they manned the lower ranges of the political structure by combining with their traditional municipal powers the electoral patronage of parliamentary government . |
| 10 | In the ninth century they were stolen and moved to Conques , where was a narrow shelf of rock in a remote , retired valley of great beauty in the Rouergue , in the Massif Central ; and here was space enough for a hermitage and a small oratory — for Faith , and a few monks to protect and cultivate her . |
| 11 | Their last attempt on this difficult mountain was repulsed by bad weather , but he hope that by climbing in the post-monsoon season they will have better luck . |
| 12 | Then with the acquisition of Gascony in the mid-eleventh century they became rulers of Bordeaux and overlords of a number of counties and lordships extending from the mouth of the Garonne to the Pyrenees , in area about twice the size of Poitou . |
| 13 | The thoughts tumbled confusedly together as she drove back to the Hamiltons ' in the small car they had put at her disposal . |
| 14 | Finally , if Imran Khan and Javed Miandad appear in the fifth tournament they will be the only players to have participated in all five World Cup tournaments . |
| 15 | Raynor made a warning movement , but the creature was before him , and in the uncertain light they could see the gleam of moonlight on bare sinewy thighs , which quivered with strength and intent to spring … |
| 16 | The importance of the morality organisations lay not so much in their mass membership as in the specific influence they could demonstrate in moments of crises , the forces they could mobilise , the pressures they could bring to bear , the ears they could bend , the opportunities they could seize , and here conjunctural political factors played an important part . |
| 17 | ‘ In the Southern Hemisphere they talk about rugby as a product . |
| 18 | And yet if you go for a top job in the city or anywhere an and start talking in the southern dialect they 'll you . |
| 19 | In Western art there had been artistic programmes and manifestos before Impressionism , but in the twentieth century they proliferated . |
| 20 | In the twentieth century they were succeeded by men like A. S. Peake ( Primitive Methodist ) , C. H. Dodd ( Congregationalist ) , H. Wheeler Robinson ( Baptist ) and P. T. Forsyth ( Congregationalist ) whose work was similar to Barth 's and whose ‘ true spiritual stature was not seen or even glimpsed ’ until after the Second World War . |
| 21 | Such statements are culturally and historically specific , and while their meanings are not fixed or static , in the twentieth century they are the products of capitalism , imperialism , and patriarchy . |
| 22 | These families may be described as a traditional élite ; in the twentieth century they either found new sources of wealth and influence or became local notables . |
| 23 | Furthermore , in the gastrointestinal tract they mediate absorption and secretion , not only of acids and bases but of several other electrolytes and nutrients . |
| 24 | They all hoped Zebedee would leave his calling card in the painted square they had picked for £1 . |
| 25 | In the general election they 'd won it , but their majority was down . |
| 26 | Such portraits were far removed , in appearance and in the moral authority they were intended to convey , from contemporary images of the Macedonian kings who then ruled the Hellenistic world : royal portraits suggested the physical attractions and hopes of youth . |
| 27 | Mr Major and his Chancellor Norman Lamont were fighting for their political lives last night in the greatest crisis they have faced . |
| 28 | In the early morning they had got drenched in the grass that waved up to his small son 's back , and when the sun struck the dew it was like the silent explosion of a crystal bowl . |
| 29 | Since October 1989 teachers have been delivering the first stages of a new national curriculum ; and in the early summer they will start testing ( sorry , assessing ) all seven-year-olds on the three core disciplines : mathematics , English and science . |
| 30 | In the thirteenth century they got rid of old restrictions which fettered the freedom of alienation in the interest of lords or heirs . |