Example sentences of "[pron] [det] [conj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mother had lived my life until half a year ago when I had so briefly lived my own and in the process destroyed it . |
| 2 | As a mature student I found it difficult at first to work on my own or in groups but now that the course is settling down , I feel that I will be able to tackle most tasks in business because we have had to learn to look for information and assimilate it so that we make it work for us . |
| 3 | It was not a through-road for Saxon or medieval traffic ; it did not come into existence as a boundary ; it was not originally a drove-road , for cattle-drovers took over existing tracks and lanes and did not create their own except in special circumstances . |
| 4 | Meanwhile in a basement laboratory in Utah two chemists are working on their own and in secret . |
| 5 | Walking through the village on any racing day one would hear conversation like , " What do you know today Fred " and the reply would bring forth such words of wisdom as " Watch Richards in the 2.30 " , or " Back top weight " for these men had a language of their own and in the evening , meeting over a pint the locals would discuss the downfall of the favourite or starting prices and often the first greeting one would get on opening the door of the bar was " How did you get on today " Tich " " , and often the reply was " First and second , Fred " . |
| 6 | Documentary sources can be effective on their own or in combination with the coins themselves , but often there are no such sources . |
| 7 | The fact that many people were buried without durable dress-fasteners may imply that organic materials were often used , either on their own or in conjunction with metal fasteners ; a few bone buttons are known . |
| 8 | The rest of the clients in this category were working on their own or in partnership . |
| 9 | Here and there were other people , either on their own or in pairs . |
| 10 | These vary in that some are video-led whereas others are based on a collection of written materials which teachers can work through on their own or in a group . |
| 11 | Damages may be claimed on their own or in addition to rescission . |
| 12 | Counts of published papers have been used , on their own or in combination with other bibliometric output measures , for a variety of purposes . |
| 13 | The Act and the rules as amended permit solicitors , on their own or in conjunction with RFLs , to practise in corporate form in England and Wales provided the practice is recognised by the Law Society as a recognised body ( ‘ RB ’ ) . |
| 14 | Very often it is not the toy by itself that will provide a mathematical experience but rather the way in which it is being used either on its own or in conjunction with other things . |
| 15 | Please could you tell me what size this fish grows to and whether it should be kept on its own or in a shoal . |
| 16 | Please could you tell me what size this fish grows to and whether it should be kept on its own or in a shoal . |
| 17 | Silk is used either on its own or in combination with wool by a number of individual weaving groups in all the major rug-making countries , with the exception of the Soviet Union , the Balkans and Pakistan , where very few silk or part-silk items are produced . |
| 18 | It can be photographed on its own or in a likely setting . |
| 19 | Such approaches , of course , were ordinarily difficult to resist , for a house never knew when royal gratitude might be of value to it in some application of its own or in some lawsuit ; a number of larger houses , like Bury St Edmunds in 1303 , even found themselves accommodating more than one royal corrodian ; furthermore , the recipients of these requests ranged far outside the hundred or so houses of which the king was patron . |
| 20 | It can be seen from Table 6.3 that over one half of the research students involved in the study had a research area embraced by computing on its own or in combination with other subject areas . |
| 21 | Despite its potential , however , currently few women actually use the method , whether on its own or in conjunction with another form of contraception . |
| 22 | Sometimes helpful in determining the values of unknown circuit components are substitution and difference techniques in which the value indicated from the balance of the bridge with a standard component is compared with that when the unknown is connected on its own or in parallel or series with the standard , whichever is more suitable . |
| 23 | Each knows the weaknesses in its own and in the other approaches and therefore debates between them tend to result in predictable discussions within a well-trodden terrain . |
| 24 | The passages were constructed so that they contained a target clause which in one version of a passage formed a sentence on its own and in another version was part of a longer sentence . |
| 25 | Regional Sector has no locomotives of its own and in the last months of the loco-hauled Cambrian Coast Express various locos have appeared . |
| 26 | Hand-made paper is a skill all its own and in pieces that we are encouraged to touch there are examples by Maureen Richardson , Jan Loxton , Sarah Peart and Gillian Spires . |
| 27 | Many factors had to be taken into account in the design of packaging for this new style of shopping : the package had to be sufficiently strong and protective of its contents , and able to withstand handling ; it had to offer the customer information about the product with clear and concise labelling ; it had to be easily identifiable from any angle ; it had to be quick , easy and safe to stack and to look attractive both on its own and in bulk displays . |
| 28 | Peter had come back from hospital in his own but in tearing good spirits . |
| 29 | The hon. Member for Pontefract and Castleford ( Mr. Lofthouse ) asks leave to move the Adjournment of the House under Standing Order No. 20 for the purpose of discussing a specific and important matter that he believes should have urgent consideration , namely , ’ the effect on unemployment of the announcement by British Coal to further run down the coal industry in his own and in neighbouring constituencies . ’ |
| 30 | Lacan shows how the recognition of ourselves in the image of the face is based on a misrecognition , since we perceive the face as our own when in fact it is produced in the image outside ourselves . |