Example sentences of "[noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For example , there might be more politics in the branches of the Young Conservatives , with the activities of committed freemarket ideologists in greater evidence . |
| 2 | Can strong habituall custome Work with such Magick on the mind , and manners In spight of sex and nature ? ( ii.ii. 140 — 2 ) |
| 3 | But I still appreciate good manners in men . |
| 4 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 5 | Saying Grace is not always a prelude to conventional manners in Free Kirk households as I once found when asked to offer the Grace in a cottage in Point , Lewis , in which the great aunt of a friend lived . |
| 6 | In answering this criticism Prince Charles would have been of impeccable good manners in employing the seven degrees of retort by Touchstone outlined in Shakespeare 's As You Like It . |
| 7 | It also provides some examples of breaches and discusses the possible manners in which such breaches should be addressed and in some cases reported . |
| 8 | The behaviour of Violet Needham 's young characters and the patterns and manners in her books make them period pieces nowadays ; her prim , earnest , winning girls and ardent , courteous boys are as alien to our times as Marco Lorestan is . |
| 9 | She certainly believed in equality between the sexes , especially in the work place , but felt there was always room for courtesy and manners in what was becoming an increasingly uncaring society . |
| 10 | As far back as the 1690s , with the establishment of the Society for the Reformation of Manners in London and the provinces , moral transgressors , including violators of the Sabbath , profane swearers , prostitutes , keepers of bawdy houses , actors in indecent plays and buggers , had been subject to sustained efforts at moral control , while public officials in the royal court encouraged the societies as an important contribution to the woefully inadequate police . |
| 11 | For myself , I can not think that , for instance , the portrait of provincial manners in Madame Bovary is lacking in some particular aspect which would have been remedied had its author clinked tankards of cider every evening with some gouty Norman bergère . |
| 12 | He recovered his manners in polite confusion . |
| 13 | In her acceptance she broke the code of propriety , went beyond the established manners in a light encounter . |
| 14 | I have never seen such manners in my life before ! ’ |
| 15 | However , one day I my colleague attacked me for imposing my ‘ middle-class values ’ on the children because I had emphasized polite speech and decent manners in my sessions . |
| 16 | Robert had read the chapter on lavatories in Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi of the University of Yarmouk . |
| 17 | Morals and Manners in Islam was the only book on the subject he had been able to find in Wimbledon public Library . |
| 18 | But , then , his entire stock of knowledge about Islam was derived from Morals and Manners in Islam by Dr Marwan Ibrahim Al-Kaysi . |
| 19 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 20 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 21 | While the Monk , usually politely addressed as ye , declines the invitation of the Host to " " be myrie of cheere " " as he tells his tale ( VII : 1924 – 5 ) , the Nun 's Priest , familiarly addressed as thou , is ready and able to provide what is wanted : The tale the Nun 's Priest tells is a beast-fable : a form of literature that should observe and comment on human traits and manners in a moral light , presenting those traits and manners in a fictional drama in which the characters are of the animal world . |
| 22 | The boss of Massingham 's had superb manners in company , Leith had to give him that , for as they reached his table he rose to his feet . |
| 23 | Then , his manners in company nothing if not impeccable , Ven switched to English and introduced Lubor Ondrus . |
| 24 | They obviously do n't teach you manners in Somerset . |
| 25 | The greatest disorders occurred on the night of 1-2 March , as crowds chanting " High Church and Sacheverell " proceeded to demolish a number of large meeting-houses in London 's West End . |
| 26 | One correspondent , seeking to explain the motives behind the attack on the meeting-houses in the west midlands in the summer of 1715 , informed Staffordshire MP , William Ward , that the rioters have got a Notion , that the Ministry and Dissenters have ruined Trade , on Purpose to make the Nation out of Love with the late Peace , and Peace-makers ; and because the Ministry , and secret Committee , and their Friends , will not let the Country have Peace and Trade , they resolve ( if they can hinder it ) the Dissenters shall not have a quiet Toleration . |
| 27 | The Wallabies , whose arrival at Twickenham sparked a 55,000 sell-out three months ago , face one of the most exciting Baa-Baas line-ups in history . |
| 28 | The Russians cheered and joined the hussars in pursuit . |
| 29 | Jan , a divorced mother of a 12 year old son , is regarded as one of the best showbiz talent spotters in Australia . |
| 30 | He has a great many euphorbias : E. characias with its giant yellow bottle-brush heads and brown bracts is allowed to lounge about in large clumps in corners ; E. palustris , a smaller yellow one , came originally from the Chelsea Physic Garden . |