Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The close proximity of the entrance of the vagina to the anus makes the anus a particular threat to the vagina as a source of candida and provides the bacteria to infect the bladder in cases of cystitis . |
| 2 | I look forward to watching Rainbow attempt to get religion in hopes of winning fair lady . |
| 3 | The first difficulties began to appear last year after the Mazowiecki government , without consulting the public or the parliament , decreed that children should be taught religion in schools , in effect making Catholicism close to a state religion . |
| 4 | Local Government — Powers — Action by local authority — Sunday trading — Local authority seeking interlocutory injunction to restrain breaches of statutory prohibition — Whether local authority to be required to give cross-undertaking in damages — Shops Act 1950 ( 14 Geo. 6 , c. 28 ) , s. 47 — Local Government Act 1972 ( c. 70 ) , s. 222 — E.E.C . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) that there was no rule that the Crown was exempt from giving a cross-undertaking in damages in law enforcement proceedings , but that the court had a discretion not to require the undertaking and that the discretion extended to other public authorities exercising the function of law enforcement in appropriate circumstances ; and that subject to the impact of Community law the courts should have exercised that discretion ( post , pp. 173D–F , 181G — 182B , G–H , 190D–E ) . |
| 6 | Those who postulate a non-sexual mode of transmission refer to documented infection in pre-pubertal virgins , the low rate of isolation in males , the occasional finding of the organism in swimming pools and spa waters , and the fact that infection could be acquired from lavatories . |
| 7 | Section 62 provides a remedy in damages for investors who suffer ‘ loss as a result of the contravention ’ ( subsection ( 1 ) ) . |
| 8 | If it can , the scope of the remedy in damages is immensely wider than under pure municipal law , the modern legislation in which has generally eschewed the private action for damages as a means of enforcement . |
| 9 | In some cases he may be able to obtain an injunction to restrain the breach and in any case he will be adequately compensated by his remedy in damages for breach of contract as his damage can scarcely be other than financial . |
| 10 | As far as any remedy in damages is concerned this point will not be of any significance and it is most unlikely that any action would be brought in a business secrets case unless some damage or advantage to a competitor had occurred or was thought likely to do so . |
| 11 | Thus , in Seager v Copydex Ltd [ 1967 ] 1 WLR 923 no injunction was granted to prevent the defendant 's use of information supplied by the plaintiff in ignorance of the duty of confidence but the plaintiff had a remedy in damages . |
| 12 | Unlike conventional football books , which tend to skim across the surface of disappointment in chapters entitled ‘ The Lean Years ’ , Hampden Babylon finds a certain self-mocking delight in disappointment . |
| 13 | The staining was homogeneous and without an apparent localisation in granules . |
| 14 | The challenge , specifically , is to raise funds for the Association in adventures , novel and unusual ways . |
| 15 | INTERNATIONAL MULTIMEDIA ASSOCIATION IN DISCUSSIONS WITH INTEL CORP |
| 16 | We have then no reason to be surprised if the distinction between ascription and association in adjectives is overlooked or mistakenly supposed to be a matter of " nuances of meaning " , rather than being recognized as a systematic variation . |
| 17 | £100,000 grant : The NorthEast has won a £100,000 Government grant for adult education courses run by the Workers Educational Association in schools , community centres and colleges throughout the region . |
| 18 | 1990 was a year of substantial achievement for the Association in terms of development of welfare facilities and in fund-raising . |
| 19 | Bear in mind the age of the house , but note any oddities such as signs of recent building work , alterations to chimneys ( sketch the position of all chimneys ) , or redecoration in patches which might indicate a ‘ cover-up ’ . |
| 20 | However , much is revealed about children 's thinking in incidents as well as in the general strategies used . |
| 21 | The prime goal of the programme was to help develop processes of scientific thinking in children . |
| 22 | Working as a group , and supported by the teacher 's skilful questioning , the children together could extend and develop each other 's thinking in ways which a teacher with only one child could not . |
| 23 | This is what thinking in sequences is all about ! |
| 24 | It has been shown that our thinking in terms of models such as ‘ democracy ’ , ‘ individualism ’ and ‘ rule of law ’ does not always adequately reflect reality , and sociological theory has demonstrated that simple notions of causality do not explain complex effects of action ( Luhmann , 1982 ; see also Prigogine and Stenger , 1985 ) ; also , theories of language tell us that we structure reality through the language we use ( Lacan , 1968 ) . |
| 25 | So the question then becomes for them how this particular human being is God , rather than their thinking in terms of a humanity in which he too participated . |
| 26 | Billig ( 1985 , 1987 ) suggests that , in order to understand this capacity for negation , social psychologists should describe the processes of social thinking in terms of opposing pairs : every process should be understood in terms of a counter-process . |
| 27 | South 's hand did not look right for a rebid in no-trumps so , rather than explore with an ambiguous bid in the opponent 's suit , he decided to stress the quality of his own suit with Three Hearts . |
| 28 | He was dedicated to his work and to his men , by whom he was much respected for his design and organizing ability and for his fairness and kindness in cases of individual hardship . |
| 29 | How does it make someone like a woman who has just had an abortion feel having to go to a lavatory to express her grief in tears ? |
| 30 | Candidates who come to grief in exams often lack practice in structuring their thoughts into an effective exam answer . |