Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun pl] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Courtney 's canoeists with ten Folbots ( see diagram p. 25 ) were the first of what became the Special Boat Section , formed after their leader had given a practical demonstration of the canoe 's military potential , a potential doubted by even the adventurous characters in Combined Operations headquarters until Courtney paddled out one summer night in 1940 to a carrier ship moored in the Clyde . |
| 2 | I lived in different parts duck . |
| 3 | Even if we agree with his general hypothesis , we have to accept that in some instances people will eat the dead bodies of other people — if only in order to stay alive . |
| 4 | In some cases people are invited into a laboratory and may be given tasks to carry out which may or may not be quite what they seem to be . |
| 5 | This meant that in some cases people were now cultivating a single furrow on a field . |
| 6 | She told Lucien how much the northerners resented the Ixmaritian tithes , and how in some cases people had shed their blood to resist them , a course of action that had been doomed to failure . |
| 7 | In some families species have been included from the upper slope in the event of overlapping bathymetric ranges . |
| 8 | Various animals that hunted in this country , foxes , in some places deer , hares are coursed er in some places . |
| 9 | In some ways people in London ( flower of cities all , as a Scots poet put it long ago ) , both men and women , have more freedom to live as they want than they have in most other cities . |
| 10 | In some LDCs people have no faith in financially weak banks and thus a great expansion of bank deposits is prevented . |
| 11 | In British Airways staff and their representatives were offered the opportunity to help generate ideas , and this resulted in very imaginative ways of reducing the cost of employing people without necessarily making them redundant or reducing their income . |
| 12 | In addition , it US company , based in New Hampshire , will begin later this year publishing titles local to the US in Alan Sutton 's In Old Photographs series , and there are plans to experiment with this same series for the French market , starting with Brittany . |
| 13 | Problems in pronouncing the sounds of a new language generally fall into the following categories : a. unfamiliar sounds b. familiar sounds in unfamiliar positions c. familiar sounds in unfamiliar combinations d. sounds which are similar to your own but not identical e. pairs of familiar sounds which contrast in the new language but not in your own f. familiar phonemes but with a different set of variants , or familiar variants in unfamiliar environments g. different transition and juncture features between sounds h. different morphophonemic changes when two sounds come together at morpheme or word boundaries . |
| 14 | Problems in pronouncing the sounds of a new language generally fall into the following categories : a. unfamiliar sounds b. familiar sounds in unfamiliar positions c. familiar sounds in unfamiliar combinations d. sounds which are similar to your own but not identical e. pairs of familiar sounds which contrast in the new language but not in your own f. familiar phonemes but with a different set of variants , or familiar variants in unfamiliar environments g. different transition and juncture features between sounds h. different morphophonemic changes when two sounds come together at morpheme or word boundaries . |
| 15 | I believe that in 100 years people will look back on the middle of the twentieth century as a nightmare period when mankind suddenly discovered the means to destroy itself , and was seriously considering using this as a preferable alternative to reconciling differing political views . |
| 16 | However , the difficulties involved in providing a safe and reassuring environment for staff working with this group of people are one reason why so many professional staff still clamour to retain the old asylums ; in such asylums staff know they can summon help at a few minutes ' notice from a neighbouring ward and from resident medical staff . |
| 17 | In such cases staff from the different areas may themselves become involved in teaching sub-groups of their own students exercises relevant to their particular area or specialism . |
| 18 | Mostly , these were people in lower socio-economic groups ; but it is worth noting that even in these groups people with high credit commitments , or people who said that if they had to arrange a loan it would be for a relatively large sum of money , generally said they would prefer monthly repayments . |
| 19 | In these cases people focus on their own best interests and not on those of the organization as a whole . |
| 20 | There is no good reason why in these circumstances 100% of the seats should not be distributed among parties ( and any serious independent candidates ) which have together won 95% of the votes . |
| 21 | In these circumstances staff then employ working norms which serve as rules-of-thumb to impose order on the judgment as to whether action is necessary . |
| 22 | ‘ In hard times people do not want to read the sex-and-shopping novels of the Eighties , ’ explained Kate Paterson , an editor with Century publishing . |
| 23 | In three months sales have totalled over 234 million French francs . |
| 24 | V-tools or parting tools are usually available in three angles 45° , 60° and 90° . |
| 25 | Over the centuries these Greeks and Karians intermarried with the natives , so that in hellenistic times people called ‘ Karomemphites ’ and ‘ Hellenomemphites ’ , obvious results of miscegenation , are attested in Memphis . |
| 26 | In all departments staff who show added ability will be given training and promotion . |
| 27 | In all cases people must be able to rely on the quality of care . |
| 28 | In many countries people give each other eggs as part of the celebration of spring . |
| 29 | Some customers are careless , but in many cases people have no idea that trolleys can cause accidents until they happen . ’ |
| 30 | In many cases people with equipment and experience suitable for gentler slopes lose their way and find themselves in areas with gradients and conditions which they are unable to handle . |