Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] [pron] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | His study , to be presented to the British Psychological Society 's annual conference in Scarborough today , found that one in three girls wanted to be thinner , even though many of them were not overweight . |
| 2 | A survey by London Gay Switchboard in 1980 of people looking for accommodation found that one in four was homeless on account of their sexuality . |
| 3 | Our own work found that one in three managers appeared to go through a sense of crisis in their late thirties . |
| 4 | A study of nearly 2,500 sixth formers , conducted by Dr Anne Charlton of the Cancer Research Campaign , found that one in five smoked at colleges where smoking was not permitted , compared with one in three where smoking was allowed . |
| 5 | But one large finance house which circulates new customers with literature promoting other loan possibilities reported that one in five pursue the offer no indication that the ‘ loans as loans ’ stage is with us yet , but a tribute to the power of the advertising which could bring it closer . |
| 6 | Suddenly he realized that everyone in the queue was staring at him with frank interest and uninhibited hostility . |
| 7 | The school trip was an example of massive disorganized organization : every minute of every day was officially occupied , and Clara wasted some time before she realized that nobody in the whole world would care or even notice whether she attended each event or not . |
| 8 | It seemed that everything in the championship really hung on the reliability of each driver 's car . |
| 9 | The bed faced the window that looked out over miles of countryside and it seemed that everything in the room was white , from the white , frilled curtains to the dainty white duvet cover and pillow case all edged with broderie anglaise . |
| 10 | Andrew Paddick , director general of the Institute of Insurance Brokers , claimed that one in five were already ‘ on the danger list ’ . |
| 11 | Interviews with 10,000 people for the survey showed that one in five women felt very unsafe when out walking at night ; yet fewer than one in 70 claimed to have been attacked in the past year . |
| 12 | Though there was less overall pessimism about job prospects throughout the UK over the next few months , the survey also showed that one in five firms expects fresh redundancies and only 17 per cent predict job increases in the three months to June . |
| 13 | In past epidemics , the doctors reckoned that one in ten of those infected would die . |
| 14 | Ubaldo Valesio reckoned that someone in the family was passing on information . |
| 15 | The only problem with the theory , from the point of view of a journalist , is that agents — as opinionated and informed as anyone in the trade — are rightly jealous of their relationships with editors and publishers , and so they refuse to be quoted on anything critical . |
| 16 | When we launched our Health and Beauty Club last year , we discovered that one in three members has a hair problem — and many simply did n't know what to do about it . |
| 17 | But she was emphatically not sorry for anything she 'd said , and she decided that nothing in the world would make her say she was . |
| 18 | The smoked-glass doors of Swift were closed and the Mercedes had long ago pulled into the traffic , but she just kept seeing it in her mind , Damian striding along with his arm around the beautiful Domino . |
| 19 | Well dressed , well groomed with that clipped , perfect accent … but enough about him to make anyone realise that Duvall , whoever in hell 's interest he represented or whatever in hell he was doing here , was a dangerous man . |
| 20 | She never asked Melanie to come and listen to them and , on these occasions , Melanie , alone with the live dog and the painted one in the kitchen , felt that nobody in all the world cared whether she lived or died . |
| 21 | In harsh numerical terms we did n't accept the Policy Committee guidelines , we felt that they in some ways were over generous and we aimed for , we purposely , deliberately set ourselves lower targets with point we 're two point six million below the Liberal Democrats for nineteen ninety four ninety five . |
| 22 | Now he knew that something in her life had caused her great pain and , even though he could n't possibly have any idea what it had been , still she was racked by his knowing even that much about her . |
| 23 | The sound came from over the garden wall and I knew that no-one in that part of Gigant Street kept chicken . |
| 24 | The judges who decided McLoughlin worried about the most accurate description of the principles underlying the precedent cases cited to them , although they knew that nothing in the explicit extension of any convention settled what these principles were or what weight they should be given . |
| 25 | In 1767 Jonas Hanway thought that one in thirteen of London 's population was a domestic servant . |
| 26 | This resulted if anything in slightly more smaller prizes and fewer large ones . |
| 27 | The sun shone from a cloudless sky , birds sang and everything in the extensive , well-tended garden looked lush and green and fresh . |
| 28 | I learned that one in three marriages ends in divorce and that the rate is even higher among second marriages , but there was little comfort in being part of such a depressing statistic . |
| 29 | The ocean carrier , therefore , was deemed to warrant to the consignor safe transport and delivery and could avoid liability only if he proved that something in the nature of force majeure had intervened . |
| 30 | Which former Australian prime minister appeared as himself in Barry McKenzie Holds his own ? |