Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [pron] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Descriptive studies , such as palaeontology , generally do not make use of technological or analytical tools , whereas geochemistry and geophysics require heavy investment in technologies which change rapidly . |
| 2 | They twinkled all over the hull in patterns which raced backwards and forwards and disappeared . |
| 3 | ‘ Most of these councillors are just hangers-on in suits who do n't know the meaning of an honest day 's graft . ’ |
| 4 | This began to change by the late seventies , as liberalisation in definitions of sexuality began to show in programmes which questioned less the right to homosexual existence , preferring to concentrate on specific topics . |
| 5 | Their resilience and in part fortuitous revival may have been due to the slightly more permissive policies of the Popular Front government in Paris — thousands of political prisoners were released although thousands more remained in gaol — but much more seems to have been the result of the ability to rebuild an organization from the bottom up even though the advice and instructions they received from international communism meant acquiescence in policies which did not give them pre-eminent appeal as a revolutionary party . |
| 6 | And things like writing leaflets in a way you know that comes up in meetings we 'd better write a leaflet and the response usually 's , Oh n gosh we ca n't do things like that you know , we ca n't speak in public , we ca n't write leaflets and in fact we do you know we find ourselves achieving these things and and I mean I think men really their attitude has really changed over the months . |
| 7 | In essays she wrote endlessly , her distinctive , well-rounded hand covering the pages . |
| 8 | At first sight there is force in Mr. Howell 's point that it is odd that Parliament should by section 6(3) ( b ) have limited the governors ' ability to apply selection criteria designed to preserve the character of the school in cases which do not fall within section 6(3) ( a ) ( i.e. where the school is not over-subscribed ) but have permitted such criteria to be applied in choosing which applicants are to succeed when the school is over-subscribed . |
| 9 | This approach is only worth attempting if full ab initio methods are used , as semi-empirical methods such as CNDO , INDO and MNDO are incapable of dealing with ions in states which have incompletely filled core orbitals . |
| 10 | Nevertheless , the doctrine of fundamental breach may still have some utility when it comes to controlling exclusion clauses in contracts which do not come within the scope of the Unfair Contract Terms Act . |
| 11 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 12 | It was a process of automatic writing such as she had heard tell of in the sillier drawing-rooms of the county where idle men and women amused and , she suspected , sometimes alarmed themselves by tinkering in realms they did not understand ; except that this was very different , for the entirety of her intellect was engaged . |
| 13 | With the advent of mechanisation and the rise of the mills , the weavers had to leave their cottages — and gardens — to seek employment in the towns and accommodation in houses which opened directly onto the street . |
| 14 | Instead , you just wake up one day and find your groundwater is poisoned from the toxic waste site up the road , or that your country is covered in houses you do n't like . |
| 15 | In houses I do n't think that people , er worry much about , about that erm |
| 16 | Use the same list of numbers and arrange them in groups which add up to 10 — we all know how to multiply by ten . |
| 17 | He further remarks how , even in cultures which do not regard sexual relations between men as unnatural or sinful , male sexual ‘ passivity ’ may be associated with inferiority , inadequacy , and even pathology . |
| 18 | would you please make sure that all through these practices that you deal with different people all the time cos in the exam and for real afterwards you 'll have to bandage all different shape people and if you just get , work in pairs you do n't get that sort of practice , by all means start of with somebody next door to you but each time you do one go across the room and find somebody you have n't done before . |
| 19 | Thus there is a tendency , if we once accept a sharp distinction between good as means and good as end , to see the point of life in those leisure activities , or at least in activities which stand apart from the main work of the world , such as high culture and very private personal relations . |
| 20 | The guidelines , it said , appeared to " permit the killing of people who are involved in activities which do not necessarily endanger life " . |
| 21 | For the first time in months she felt very sick again . |
| 22 | She skidded to a halt , threw her leg over the saddle as though dismounting from a charger , and began to harangue Hugh in words he did n't understand . |
| 23 | In generative phonology , a results from vowel reduction in vowels which have never received stress in the process of the application of stress rules . |
| 24 | Did n't know you were interested in dinosaurs she smiled gently teasing him . |
| 25 | Indeed an even more striking feature of the results was that the individuals examined were especially high on a measure of ‘ ego strength ’ , indicating a greater than average resistance to mental breakdown : the finding is particularly interesting because the latter is usually very low in subjects who deviate markedly on the clinical scales of tests like the MMPI . |
| 26 | Daily rhythms are abnormal in subjects who have recently undergone major surgery or who are in intensive care because of serious illness . |
| 27 | In lakes which have both deep and shallow water , with a distinct shelf that divides the two , then this is a good place to begin . |
| 28 | Partly due to their systematic exclusion , but also as a matter of choice , feminist artists increasingly preferred to display their work in settings they considered more appropriate to their desire to participate in the more public/political debates of feminism and a recognition of art as a communicative medium . |
| 29 | Many of us spend much of our working day slouched over office desks , typewriters , computers or other instruments , and our leisure time slumped in front of a television set , while the journey from home to work is usually by some sort of mechanized transport — often in cars which do little to improve our posture . |
| 30 | He says that if people spend money in Supermarkets they have n't got any left for smaller shops . |