Example sentences of "[adj] in [noun] [subord] they had " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ESC , however , threatened to stay away from the Civic in future if they had to make up the lost revenue . |
| 2 | Only some large religious or political issue would induce people to take the very considerable step involved in emigration if they had any established position to keep them in England — younger sons , the poor , and those with nothing to lose might easily be more ready to travel , if they could get the financial backing needed , or were willing to go as indentured labourers . |
| 3 | Another facet : a ribbed hall of towering , icon-stencilled machine tools , littered with corpses , many of them as grotesque in death as they had been in life … |
| 4 | They achieved this by combining two different methods : a longitudinal study , following the same children for four years from before they were able in read until they had been at school for two or three years ; and a training programme that looked at the effect of giving pre-school children specific training in categorising sounds . |
| 5 | On the facts of the case , the police were held liable in negligence as they had no fire fighting equipment present when the CS gas was fired . |