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

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1 It is submitted that a number of cases which in the past applied the literal rule would now be decided in the opposite way .
2 He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one of the latest for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more for the fight against crime .
3 He is proposing a pilot scheme to take uniformed officers away from front desk duties as one idea for putting civilians into jobs which in the past have been filled by officers in order to free more police for the fight against crime .
4 Was it based upon assumptions which in the event have not been realised ?
5 To judge from the surviving traces , this applies more especially to communities which in the course of the last five millennia have dragged themselves from the morass of primitive communism and set their feet on ground firm enough to support civilized ways of life .
6 Also , it facilitates the granting of security over assets which in the normal course of a company 's business are circulating , for example , stock in trade .
7 Self-evidently these texts are strikingly different from original materials issued by the SI in the sense that they have the status of copyrighted property and have been funded by organisations which in the past may have supported progressive art but which do not sound like the champions of revolutionary causes .
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