Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fifty years I 'll be dead and you 'll be a sprightly lizard slurping yoghurt through a straw , sipping peat-bog water and wearing health sandals . |
| 2 | Carolyn Douglas points out , however , that if teenagers are involved in destructive friendships there must be underlying reasons . |
| 3 | ‘ There is a growing feeling of alienation in loyalist areas which is boosting the ranks of the paramilitaries . |
| 4 | ‘ There is a growing feeling of alienation in loyalist areas which is boosting the ranks of the paramilitaries . |
| 5 | In normal circumstances I would have written this information off as being about the small Green Swords which come from the Rio Sarabia , but in this case I could not , as the fish concerned had been supplied from Dr Kallman 's laboratory and were correctly named . |
| 6 | In normal circumstances it is difficult to know the limits of one 's own capability , let alone those of the organization . |
| 7 | The old man explained his views on the matter afterwards to a Christian friend , ‘ For an ordinary man in normal circumstances it is enough that he believe faithfully in God . |
| 8 | In normal circumstances you would know this or be able to find it out , but this is still only a short case study and we have n't included it . |
| 9 | Wycliffe felt sure that in normal circumstances she was a cheerful woman , more ready to laugh than cry . |
| 10 | The irony was that in normal circumstances she would have insisted on seeing a working installation of a new product if only to satisfy herself that whatever she wrote would n't infringe the Trades Descriptions Act . |
| 11 | In normal circumstances there would be a serious doubt over Chatam 's fitness after such a lengthy lay-off , but the champion trainer has a remarkable track record with horses returning from injury . |
| 12 | ‘ I ask you to believe that in normal circumstances he would not behave like that , but he is still not quite himself … the death of his friend , you know … ’ |
| 13 | In normal times there is a steady movement of pilots up from small air taxi operations through turboprop commuter aircraft of the major airlines . |
| 14 | In normal subjects there are two components to the basel electrical rhythm , a predominant rhytym at a frequency of 6 cycles per minute with some at 3 cycles per minute . |
| 15 | In normal spirits he seemed to need only two steps to cross a room . |
| 16 | Pseudoephedrine ( see p 317 ) can produce euphoria and delusions , if taken in very large doses , and even in normal doses it may cause nightmares and behavioural problems in children . |
| 17 | The scheme was intended to provide financial help to unemployed workers in depressed areas who were prepared to move to other areas . |
| 18 | The company blamed intense price-cutting in depressed markets which further eroded petrochemical margins . |
| 19 | The obvious comparison is with housework : if women want to eat and live in pleasant surroundings they have to cook and clean . |
| 20 | It could be argued that anyone who is idiot enough to send a cheque for thousands of pounds to a salesman of shares in unquoted companies he has never heard of deserves to lose it all . |
| 21 | In strong winds we do n't want beginners to be overpowered and so we reduce the sail area , that 's known as reefing . |
| 22 | A board that is easy to sail in strong winds which has a surf-board type of tail , footstraps , a retracting daggerboard and a mast track . |
| 23 | In strong syllables it is comparatively easy to distinguish from , from , but in weak syllables the difference is not so clear . |
| 24 | They stood listening at the door as Gerald Hussey made a short speech of welcome ; then there were further exchanges in low voices which Sara could not make out . |
| 25 | In eleven boroughs there was a swing to the Conservatives , with movements of over 7% being recorded in Brent , Wandsworth and Westminster . |
| 26 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |
| 27 | Although this factor may be difficult to assess in monetary terms it may be influential in the make or buy decision . |
| 28 | However , he also suggested he would prefer to restrict the use of the concept of ‘ liminality ’ to those ritual periods in small-scale societies which all must pass through , and use the term ‘ liminoid ’ for those anti-structural periods personified by the ‘ counter-culture ’ of the 1960s ( 1978 : 287 ) . |
| 29 | We got 2,000 reps in forty-seven countries who averaged four recruits each ! |
| 30 | The soldiers ' unit commander went to the scene with a group of unarmed subordinates , but upon being confronted by a stone-throwing mob numbering around 3,000 people he called in armed reinforcements which apparently used batons and firearms to put down the riot . |