Example sentences of "[coord] in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.

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1 As early as 1707 Hugh , first Earl of Cholmondeley [ q.v. ] , was advised by a surveyor in London that the Smiths did a ‘ great deal of busness in the Contry and they have done a great deal of work thearabout & in Warwick you may easy hear of them ’ ; and when in the 1730s Sarah , Duchess of Marlborough [ q.v. ] , was building a house as far away as Wimbledon , Surrey , she stipulated that ‘ Mr. Smith of Warwickshire the Builder may be employed to make Contracts and to Measure the Work and to doe every thing in his Way that is necessary to Compleat the Work as far as the Distance he is at will give him leave to do . ’
2 The tundra flowers must be very exciting & in fact your whole trip sounds wonderful .
3 The better-off farmers could send their sons as fee-payers to endowed grammar schools ( in Thame or in Oxford itself ) ; the gentry could take advantage of the railways and dispatch their sons to boarding-schools further afield .
4 In presenting , or in half-concealing their beliefs , the editors can call upon booklists and libraries of conspiracy material , much of which is already familiar to their specialized readership .
5 Like Aconite it is suited to plethoric , vigorous , healthy constitutions , robust children and babies when the complaints come on suddenly and with great violence , then subsides just as suddenly ; a short , sharp course — Not to be used in prolonged , continuous or recurrent states or in complaints which come on gradually .
6 Many elderly people can remain in their own homes even if they are living alone , provided that they can get adequate help with some of the heavier and more awkward chores : cleaning high up , or low down , under furniture or in corners which have become inaccessible to them .
7 You see if we can get away on holiday earlier this year because the violin exam 's in June or in July we 'll be back .
8 Any meaningful stretch of language , of any extent , like the or in case I 've thrown it away or the s in a plural like chairs .
9 If you are disabled or in firm you are entitled to free home nursing visits and free chiropody .
10 Accordingly , depending upon whether a bank holder of a bill of lading sued in the United States or in England he could get $500 instead of £100 for loss of the same package or unit of freight .
11 They might be printed in pairs or in patterns which repeat .
12 Alternatively or in addition he may be co-opted on to other public bodies , such as hospital authorities , water authorities , etc .
13 So much of my time is spent designing or in meetings it 's all too easy to forget that this , ’ he gazed around him , ‘ is the purpose of it all . ’
14 Uranium , the ultimate source of radon , tends to concentrate in acidic magmas , which form granite , or in shales which form from marine muds .
15 That 's the alley , yeah , or the ginnel or the snicket you know or in Liverpool they call it a jigger
16 I believe that the reason for that is that when the Bible is used in school or in church it is nearly always in the form of a modern version , which is entirely unmemorable and unpoetic .
17 Or in future I 'm hoping that on three days a week when ye feel like it . ’
18 Often the " essence " has been seen in terms which wider study of religions has shown to be too narrow or too idiosyncratic or in ways which undermine the significance of the external forms of religious traditions .
19 In a sense it is a personal keeping of the ‘ minutes ’ of what occurred at conferences or in battles which will remind the writer what happened at a precise time in the course of events .
20 But there seems no room for any notion of the decorous in Olson 's ‘ objectism ’ , any more than there is room for it in the lawless world of the Cantos , or in Pound himself when he is without a master to translate , whose example makes him surpass himself .
21 Examples would be night-workers or in travellers who have arrived recently from other continents .
22 Hypochondria is thought to be a result of repressed emotions and secret fears , and it is far more likely to develop in families where there is a preoccupation with illness , or in people who have a great deal of contact with invalids as children .
23 Having an excellent harbour , Vancouver was a sportsman 's paradise so far as swimming , fishing , and boating were concerned , and while I have never claimed prowess in the water or in angling I have found pleasure on a boat , provided that boat was big enough — big enough that is , for me to sit comfortably on deck , preferably with a drink in hand , and watch the world go by .
24 Hence some policewomen deliberately seek out desk jobs — secretaries with uniforms , as someone described them — or jobs as drivers , in juvenile liaison , or in units which deal with sex crimes , because they see themselves as better suited to this type of work .
25 However , the strippings and restorations are recorded in dated pencilled notes on stocks or in butt-traps which helps recreate a gun 's personal history .
26 Release Sidacai into Alexei 's charge , so that in life or in death he may serve you . ’
27 I think it will affect working women , or in fact anybody working , both directly and indirectly , and in fact the whole public indirectly , in that that sort of facility , to be able to shop , as it were , at home , will be extremely convenient and so will a facility that reminds you when things are due — a sort of , you know , household secretary really that can keep a check .
28 or in fact you can go afterwards .
29 Or in fact you go to London because it happens to be in reverse
30 Not in appearance which has changed little , nor in character which remains in essence that of a medieval settlement , but the former strongly individual atmosphere of the place , the aura of bygone days , has been destroyed by the coming of the motor car which increasingly has taken away the privacy of the little town .
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