Example sentences of "in [adj] [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In vain they look for a contrast with the adult world in the family which is yielding and running after them . |
| 2 | In vain you tempt me while our Orchard bears |
| 3 | We 've been in chinky we 've brought our tea . |
| 4 | It is said that in marine water the eggs float but that in freshwater they tend to sink . |
| 5 | In public they have to boast about the training revolution they are supposedly leading . |
| 6 | My answer to the first part of his question is that in the few weeks that I have had my present portfolio , two or three times in public I have stated my firm belief that it is in the interests of the people of Northern Ireland , the police and the security forces — indeed , in the interests of all of us — that the law be applied even-handedly and that those responsible for applying the law should do so . |
| 7 | We either ignore it , but if it 's done in public you feel threatened , or you feel that you are showing weakness if you just ignore it . |
| 8 | And she was the first that got on horseback , and with some fifty that were with her , did some hurt to the company of the Cid ; but in fine they slew her , and her people fled to the camp . |
| 9 | Now you er in brief we 've had a description . |
| 10 | Erm what I what I 'd like to , I mean I 've written out in rough you know , what I 'd like to send out to departments with the the the homework timetable and it 's just , you know I I 'm trying to say to the members of staff I do n't wan na interfere with the way that they organise their departments or their classrooms but I want to propose , you know that things like all seventh year classes should have one homework per subject per week . |
| 11 | In short we have strong expectations about the structure of conversation which warrant many different kinds of inference ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 12 | In short I have laid an excellent foundation . |
| 13 | In general we assume that words have a standardised spelling in British English . |
| 14 | The only fact upon which dieticians seem agreed is that in general we eat too much meat and too few vegetables , which distorts the balance of fat in our bodies . |
| 15 | In general we estimate that sources of error in the retrievals limit the precision to about 10% but that the absolute errors , taking into account uncertainties in the line parameters , are more likely to be of the order of 15% . |
| 16 | From the history of man in general we focus down to the story of a single individual , Abraham , and his descendants . |
| 17 | In general we consider a decision-maker having m actions available . |
| 18 | In general we find that , for a very small increase in , for example , wages , we tend to spend a lot more , proportionately , on holidays . |
| 19 | It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do . |
| 20 | Erm , it 's true that in general we do have different memories than other people do er but it does n't seem to be fully individuating in that any change in the contents of the memory would produce a change in . |
| 21 | This knowledge is unfortunately of little help in actually factorising f and in general we have to be content with approximation methods . |
| 22 | In general we have been most successful with pupils excluded from other schools and returning from special provision . |
| 23 | Er , and in general we have a , er , panel of the non-executive directors who set the directors ' salary in relation to the other directors I am also on that panel er , but obviously not in relation to my own salary . |
| 24 | Final evidence that rhynchosaurs were herbivorous is that they occurred in large numbers ; in general we expect the herbivores to outnumber carnivores . |
| 25 | Various sorts of logical structure , with branching and loops , will achieve this — in general we see great advantages in presenting them to the user in graphical form . |
| 26 | ‘ In general we feel that , as far as nuclear power is concerned , it 's beginning to be far more acceptable . |
| 27 | Later this year we will be publishing a more comprehensive paper on this topic outlining what we feel needs to be done to ensure the integrity of official statistics , but in general we believe that there are three principles : 1 . |
| 28 | In general we value goods with a price , and devalue the ‘ free lunch ’ , but it is possible for some institutions and professional and personal relationships to be viewed in different terms . |
| 29 | In general they overestimate the amount available and underestimate the time wasted by being fragmented in small amounts on rather trivial matters . |
| 30 | In general they follow the requirements of company law ( Sch 4A , Companies Act 1985 , which was introduced by Sch 2 , Companies Act 1989 ) . |