Example sentences of "[coord] in [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is the property of the Widow and the Orphan who regard it as safe in your Hands , & in our case moreover it is the property of the Sovereign of the country who selects us for the deposit because he expects ( & expressly has declared that to be his motive ) to find in us , the nice Honour of Gentleman added to the common honesty & Integrity of Men of Business . ’ |
| 2 | Once , I could n't remember how many breaks for rain there were or in which session I scored my hundred . |
| 3 | To be successful the direction-shifts of the fleeing animal must be irregular so that the predator can not anticipate either when or in which direction the next change of course will be . |
| 4 | And she had no doubt that Tristan would listen when she explained to him what it was she wished him to say on her behalf , or in which direction she wished him to urge her to go . |
| 5 | On the one hand , much empirical evidence seems to point to the fact that fire-cults in which fire-wheels are rolled down hills , thrown into the air , or in which bonfires are kindled on Midwinter 's or Midsummer 's Day all reflect solar symbolism ; the object of these practices being to ensure the return of the sun , or protection against its heat or whatever . |
| 6 | BGS staff carry out some of these programmes ; others are cooperative projects between university groups and BGS , or in which BGS staff supervise research students . |
| 7 | It is from this group that more collapses are likely or in which reorganizations and consolidations will occur . |
| 8 | It would be difficult to justify an economic system in which wages were determined by a form of lottery ; or in which monopoly and exploitation were the order of day ; or in which each person earned the same wage regardless of effort , risk or training . |
| 9 | This remark emphasizes again the point previously made that moral considerations , which can not be regarded as principles in the Kantian sense , are involved in situations of moral dilemma or in what Winch calls ‘ ‘ the perspective' ’ of the action' . |
| 10 | The first section of this chapter sums up the differences which have emerged between legacies and trusts in the course of this book , and goes on to consider whether or how far or in what sense classical law can be said to have reached a fusion of legacy and trust . |
| 11 | ‘ No , I 'd no idea he comes to Antibes or in what style he lives when he 's here . ’ |
| 12 | Who do you turn to when you take over your first pub with a busy passing trade and you really do not know how many staff to employ or in what capacity to employ them ? |
| 13 | Or in what Paul taught ? |
| 14 | It may be like a questionnaire , leaving the interviewer no discretion as to how to ask the questions or in what order . |
| 15 | Dust was pluming from a road in the centre of that landscape , but , even with the help of the battered old telescope , Sharpe could not tell what traffic made the dust rise , or in what direction it travelled . |
| 16 | Having said that , I think we should be wary of falling into the trap of dictating to Morrissey what he should write about , or in what tone . |
| 17 | The Act of 1967 does not specify at what stage , or how often or in what form the consultation is to take place , but the subsection implies that it should be after the Secretary of State has received the recommendation of the Parole Board . |
| 18 | At advanced levels of language learning it is less easy to predict accurately what exactly the learner wants to communicate , or in what situation he is likely to find himself . |
| 19 | Of course the people who hear the singing do n't climb the Minster tower , but congregate outside their houses , in the streets or in their gardens . |
| 20 | I introduced this historical discussion by posing three questions about whether there has been a reduction in people 's actual support for their kin , or in their sense of obligation to kin , or simply change in both . |
| 21 | ‘ The servants of this house could , one or all , be either the assassins or in their pay . ’ |
| 22 | Look out for changes in their behaviour at home or in their performance at school . |
| 23 | It has indicated that children in experimental Yoruba medium classes do not appear to suffer either in their knowledge of English or in their performance in a final state examination in English . |
| 24 | When discussing unexpected failures for this to occur , academic psychologists have generally concentrated on the case where , despite high intelligence ( and therefore presumably superior ability to think convergently ) individuals are nevertheless relatively uncreative , either in real-life or in their performance on divergent thinking tests . |
| 25 | Some portraits of young children copy imperial features in , for example , the shape of the ears or in their hairstyles . |
| 26 | It is this same group who most often remember grandparents as providing significant direct financial aid either in their lifetimes or in their wills . |
| 27 | Age , education , ideology , even strength of partisanship , had little influence over whether or not people perceived bias on television or in their papers . |
| 28 | This leads to a final consideration , namely whether politicians behave in the way Niskanen and others assume they do , either in their sensitivity to the costs and benefits of public expenditure or in their inability to obtain adequate information for the monitoring job they are required to do . |
| 29 | A book about the children of the war , displaced children , children who had not been brought up by their natural parents or in their home countries . |
| 30 | The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers . |