Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | The obvious comparison is with housework : if women want to eat and live in pleasant surroundings they have to cook and clean . |
| 2 | Under permanently wet conditions , small mammal bone becomes soft and easily broken , and it has been found that small mammal bones preserved in wet caves become extensively broken , whereas in dry caves they are better preserved , but other factors may also modify such an assemblage . |
| 3 | In economic terms they seem to have had little effect : in Merseyside , for instance , which has had every new scheme , economic decline has not even been halted , let alone reversed . |
| 4 | IIb : in economic terms they are qualitatively different . |
| 5 | Cos if you said erm answer in complete sentences they obviously would n't get two marks you see ? |
| 6 | it 's not a reflex action that the Labour Party somehow engages in , but there are things that we need to rave raise revenue for , such as investment in the economy , like our social policies , and that the way that we will raise revenue is that we we will have a fair taxation system , that is very straightforward , and agreed by the Party , unlike the Conservatives who firstly do n't recognize there is any purpose in investment in the economy , public investment , or investment in social policies they do n't agree with , and secondly , when they do have to raise money they do it in the unfairest possible way , penalizing most those who can least |
| 7 | In chartered helicopters they hovered over the empty stretch of road between Fenny Stratford and Buckingham to photograph the bare tarmac and the last few barriers and police cars parked there at first light . |
| 8 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 9 | If they are in different departments they must be brought together physically , whatever departmental objections are raised at first . |
| 10 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 11 | If they are in different departments they must be brought together physically , whatever departmental objections are raised at first . |
| 12 | In different forms they were pursued at the second and third Councils of Constantinople ( 553 and 680–1 ) . |
| 13 | If they are in different rooms they have a spatial barrier . |
| 14 | If they are in different rooms they have a spatial barrier . |
| 15 | In any one place the two species resemble each other , but in different places they have formed ‘ geographic races ’ ( Figure 5.6 ) . |
| 16 | Very short booms are used by experts in strong winds , but in light winds they have very little steering ability . |
| 17 | Usually these are seen as bushes , perhaps 5 ft or 6 ft high , but in old gardens they might be 15 ft , always with several branches arching from the base . |
| 18 | In old days they put mountain ash berries and a cast horseshoe over the lintel to frighten away the Fairy Folk . |
| 19 | In varying degrees they reveal the new classical feeling , but formally their work , which includes some of the loveliest vase-painting , is the last flower of the archaic tradition . |
| 20 | ‘ In Victorian times they used to be about 35 inches wide ; now they can be as narrow as 30 inches . |
| 21 | Now in Victorian times they were kept as pets and just like hamsters are today and there are still one or two around that er might just give you that impression but I may be really off the , the level here . |
| 22 | In Victorian times they were very common , and often found in the nursery . |
| 23 | Unlike the others who appear and disappear as fashion and progress dictate , children occupy a permanent place in the list partly because of their continuing presence as a potential sub-class , partly because they have never protested and mainly because it is assumed that in favourable circumstances they will become men and therefore require attention . |
| 24 | In favourable situations they form nuclei for small communities of microflora and fauna , their debris accumulating as an organic substrate that fosters mosses and angiosperms . |
| 25 | These peoples can not allow themselves much investment in fixed assets they would need to defend , but just as importantly they can not allow themselves much investment in social ties to specific others . |
| 26 | The Greeks claim that their black economy is bigger than any other Community country 's , and so in absolute terms they are not quite as badly off as the published statistics make it seem . |
| 27 | In real animals they are produced at the whole-body level by interactions between cells . |
| 28 | According to the OECD 's 1990 report Development Co-operation , net financial flows to the developing world increased by 3 per cent to US$110,000 million in 1989 , though in real terms they were still little more than half the level at the start of the 1980s . |
| 29 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 30 | Our bodies , for instance , are usually hotter than our surroundings , and in cold climates they have to work hard to maintain the differential . |