Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] in " in BNC.

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1 Within fifteen minutes everyone in the cast — apart from me — was talking about this .
2 Now er we we already had a license for an earlier version of EARS which in er in fact was in Aled 's name from the last general election but one .
3 Bones and teeth are made from quite simple inorganic compounds which in their normal crystalline and glassy forms are very brittle .
4 They find their thinking and decision-making dominated by market and resource considerations which in their scale and complexity are a long way indeed from the traditional concept of primary headship ( Audit Commission 1991 ) .
5 The basic considerations which in Chapter 6 led to the view that the reading system involves two different processing procedures , one lexical and the other non-lexical , apply also to the spelling system .
6 First , where an application for an injunction is made ex parte and the defendant claims , or in the opinion of the court would be likely to claim , that he acted in contemplation or furtherance of a trade dispute , the court shall not grant the injunction unless satisfied that all steps which in the circumstances were reasonable have been taken with a view to securing that notice of the application and an opportunity of being heard with respect to the application have been given to him .
7 CBHPs grew in an era of popular organizing by both church and secular organizations which in adopting a structural or liberational approach were clearly anti-government in character .
8 But in promoting it to MPs we 've been drawing their attention to the kinds of organizations which in turn in their eyes just sort of represent that pyramid or structure of votes that .
9 Norman Crawford then pulled off a master stroke , introducing McConnell , and he set up Mark Burns for a short corner strike in the 46th minute before adding two goals himself in the space of five minutes to leave Holywood 4–2 ahead .
10 These are collocational ties which in many cases defy literal interpretation , and have to be understood metaphorically .
11 The Communist International quite deliberately set out to create " sections " under its detailed control , which would be more easily disciplined than the Second International parties which in Lenin 's eyes had been too independent to act together on the outbreak of war .
12 In June India finally agreed to restore trade and transit concessions which in March 1989 it had withdrawn , partly in protest at Nepal 's decision to purchase Chinese weaponry .
13 The central dome is 180 feet above ground , supported on gigantic pendentives which in turn stem from the four semi-circular arches and enormous , ground-standing piers .
14 Lexical meaning can be studied by defining a particular set of words which in some way refer to the same subject , such as all colour terms .
15 This defamiliarized perception of words which in ordinary circumstances we fail to notice is the result of the formal basis of poetry .
16 The notes are pertinent to the exhibition , but left me slightly disquieted : the style of writing is , appropriately , neither fact not fiction , but this allows her to make shifts through sleights of words which in more academic circumstances would beg fuller exposition .
17 But they do n't care that the only honest answer to the West Lothian Question — which is to deny the right of Scots MPs to share in legislating for England and Wales on those subjects which in Scotland have been devolved to the Scottish parliament — would render any British government unstable , since it might possess a majority on some issues but not on others .
18 On either side of the porch are herbaceous borders which in summer , are a riot of colour , brimming over with flowers which threaten to engulf the ground floor window .
19 If we have an audience we 're encouraged and we do better lifts which in competition is the pay-off
20 ‘ These buildings do however provide excellent accommodation for small offices which in turn create much needed local employment .
21 And they 're the kind of books which in a way encapsulated people 's views of what history was , the history of this country was , at that particular point in time .
22 In mechanical engineering these are seen to be centred around the generation of geometric shapes which in association perform a specified function .
23 It peoples itself in the sunbeams .
24 In some instances these products were grown by peasants who sold their produce to local traders who in turn supplied urban merchants and exporters .
25 Nor will those investors and depositors who in the mid-1970s found themselves caught in a hurricane sweeping throught the secondary banking system after the collapse of Gerald Caplan 's London and County Securities .
26 Three secretaries who in March had taken the unprecedented step of tendering their resignations to the GPC [ see also p. 37333 ] were also affected : Izz al-Din Mohammad al-Hinshiri , hitherto Justice Secretary , was moved to the Secretariat of Transport and Communications while Mubarak al-Shamikh and Ahmed Mohammed Ibrahim , hitherto Secretaries for Transport and for Higher Education respectively , stood down .
27 As already indicated , £20 — £39 embraced an assortment of yeomen , minor gentry , and lesser merchants and manufacturers who in towns , other than the biggest and most important , might well have formed the ruling elite .
28 For the important group of metalworking industries in all of the five countries which Sisson investigates , multi-employer bargaining was established by the parties themselves in Britain and Sweden , and by legislative enactment in the other three , but in response to a somewhat differing challenge from the trade unions .
29 Bargaining levels are related to the structure of the parties themselves in collective bargaining , particularly the extent to which their own respective organisations are strongly centralised ( federated ) at national level , and to the extent or density of unionisation of a country 's labour force ( Clegg , 1976 ) .
30 Decisions in a compliance system are graduated in character ( Eisenberg , 1976 ) , and though in rare cases matters are ultimately settled by adjudication , they are normally controlled by the parties themselves in private , intimate negotiations which rely on bargaining , not adjudication .
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