Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it was just the times I saw him in the Div II Championship year and the season after that . |
| 2 | I 've heard also of courses of injections which remove it in the short term but result in a worse incidence of cellulite after the treatment has worn off . |
| 3 | A few lay on the ground in exhausted or inebriated sleep , oblivious to children and dogs who clambered over them , or to the kicks from porters who found them in the way . |
| 4 | The party has now discarded the leaders with overly Nazi political pasts who controlled it in the 1970s . |
| 5 | This weirdo is perceived as poking around dusty old bookshops instead of the gleaming God-have-you-any- conception -what-this-refit-has-just-cost-us sort of outlet and , worse , buys secondhand books , books that have already been sold and therefore attract no income or royalties whatever ; and who might even be willing to pay up to 10 times the original cover price if the damn thing is a first edition , whereas everyone knows that first editions are merely what are given away free , for heaven 's sake , to hacks who seldom review them and — even more galling — to the bloody authors who wrote them in the first place . |
| 6 | Within six months he found himself in the White House . |
| 7 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 8 | The general manager of the company Ian McCall said ; ‘ We have had a tremendous response already and we expect parents who wore them in the fifties and sixties to buy them for their children . ’ |
| 9 | In the context of special need this means selecting competent , adaptable and understanding staff who are sensitive to the needs which present themselves in the school and who are prepared to undertake the study and training required to keep pace with developments . |
| 10 | For the former the sterling area was good for business ; for the latter , an international financial role for Britain involved direct responsibilities which placed it in the central position in government to which it had become accustomed before 1939 but had lost over the war years . |
| 11 | The Tories have more or less run out of good ideas which inspired them in the early Thatcher years , and are left only with a few bad ones : the creation of new , ever more incompetent ‘ private ’ monopolies ; the vindictive pursuit of aged war criminals ; the idiotic struggle to knock a penny off income tax , which will benefit nobody , when so much more could be achieved with a little imagination — by abolishing all discriminatory rates , abolishing capital transfer tax and other taxes on savings , allowing domestic wages ( as all other forms of employment are allowed ) against personal taxation … |
| 12 | Her condemnation of the home and family as the source of women 's subjection and inferiority , and her assertion that ‘ any woman who is really a rebel longs to destroy the conventions which bind her in the home as much as those which bind her in the state ’ , has a modern ring , although in practice her solution , like that of Florence Nightingale , amounted to a complete rejection of family life rather than a demand for its restructuring . |
| 13 | I do not believe that the Harrier pilots who found themselves in the Royal Naval Reserve will have the opportunity to fly either , but it is certainly useful to have them in the reserve should they be needed . |
| 14 | Where we have specific reservations we mention them in the text . |
| 15 | But erm , after the erm forty four Act of course , things began to er develop quite quickly and erm we then had what we called erm discretionary awards or minor awards we called them in the first place |
| 16 | This is what trousers he put them in the proper basket instead of leaving them there . |
| 17 | The most widely accepted theory of human evolution — proposed largely by anthropologists , and based on fossil findings — connects the transformation of our early ancestors to some geological changes which trapped them in the eastern side of Africa 's Rift valley , in an environment that was suddenly drier and more open . |
| 18 | ‘ A word used by frightened children to describe nameless , formless horrors which await you in the fog , or around the next corner . ’ |
| 19 | But for whole class playback sessions the general focus should be on things which affect everyone in the group . |
| 20 | The Commonwealth became to politicians and men of affairs what Indirect Rule was to the DO — a chance to display those qualities which justified them in the possession of an empire , and thereby ensure its perpetuation . |
| 21 | The crumbling of the old idea of a state based on obligations and obedience may have helped increase the dynamic force that enabled European countries to spread their authority over most of the world ; the very widespread acceptance of the new idea of a state based on independence and equality gave people outside Europe political principles which helped them in the later struggle to dismantle the European empires . |
| 22 | The City streets were fairly quiet of course , but as we passed into the suburbs we found ourselves in the midst of the Saturday morning shopping rush . |
| 23 | There was a man who went off to Amsterdam to buy some diamonds , I helped his secretary book his ticket , first class , and his limousine , smooth as clockwork , and as he 's walking along a canal admiring the house fronts someone stabs him in the back , destroys a kidney , gangrene sets in , now he 's dead . |
| 24 | As in previous examples , the problematic items in the source text are underlined and the items which replace them in the target text are highlighted in bold . |
| 25 | It is generally the present tense which is used when you describe a text , even when you describe it in terms which place it in the past ( e.g. by mentioning the author ) : In Los Gusanos ( 1991 ) John Sayles describes Miami as it was in the early 1980s . |
| 26 | As has been noted , services are far less easy prey to import penetration ; and the broad financial sector fared well out of a sharp rise in inflation and the high interest rates which accompanied it in the early 1970s . |
| 27 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 28 | In fact , I would suggest that anybody who has one ounce of individuality should never go to a business school — and I 've said this often at Cranfield and London — because you 're structured by academics who measure you in the science of business . |
| 29 | Yes , his pulse does race , but mostly , he says , ‘ with admiration for the medieval masons and carpenters who built it in the first place ’ . |
| 30 | In such comments we find ourselves in the precise atmosphere of Rudolf Otto 's ‘ numinous ’ , the ‘ mysterium tremendum et fascinans ’ — the mystery that creates wonderment as well as terror — which surely accounts at least in part for the high level of religious feeling in Canadian folklore and literature ; not least in Leonard 's expression of it . |