Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun] [subord] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such cases may have been exceptional , but a great many servants seem to have passed their lives in households where their employers knew them by their functions , not their names . |
| 2 | There is very little evidence , either , that young children with emotional disorders ( anxiety , fear , depression ) are more likely to suffer psychiatric disorders in adulthood than their more well-adjusted peers . |
| 3 | These include the ‘ legacy of the British ’ , who promoted an overtly punitive penal philosophy , more concerned with the repression of dissent than with ordinary crime , and who ran the prisons as cheaply as possible ; a labyrinthine criminal justice system , which causes many accused persons to spend years in gaol before their trial is completed ; widespread political interference with the police , whereby criminals with ‘ connections ’ often escape justice , leaving the gaols populated predominantly with poor rural labourers ; the designation of prisons , under the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution , as primarily the responsibility of the thirty-one individual states and union territories rather than the Indian government — which has perpetuated gross differences in practices and standards ; and the generally low priority attached to ‘ non-productive ’ areas like penal reform in a country with 250 million people below the poverty line , where economic development dominates planning and expenditure . |
| 4 | In the UK there are cases where office workers have to be allowed extended breaks in summer because their building 's machinery was unable to handle the increased heat generated by its glass facade . |
| 5 | Applicants should hold high academic qualifications in economics as their major academic discipline , and might have specialist interests in economic policy , trade , finance , development , or other areas , with particular reference to the contemporary Japanese economy . |
| 6 | The hijackers were Islamic Jihad , and they threatened to kill members of the Kuwaiti Royal Family on board and all the Western hostages in Beirut if their comrades imprisoned in Kuwait were not released . |