Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vagina ( in Latin , a sheath or scabbard ) is about four inches long and lies between the urethra and bladder in front and the rectum behind . |
| 2 | There are several reasons for this ‘ regression towards the mean ’ ; it could be based on a genetic process , or it could be because a father ( mother ) who is above the mean in ability marries on average someone who is less able than he ( she ) , and so the child , reflecting the ability of both parents , is less able than the father ( mother ) . |
| 3 | Nothing illustrates more dramatically the extent to which Nizan 's work fired the imagination than the spectacle of Sartre himself publicly criticising traditional " institutionalised " intellectuals for their lack of imagination , publicly insulting Raymond Aron for his failure to take note of the significance of the May events , and extolling by implication Nizan the youthful iconoclast , an exemplary dissident intellectual in tune with the spirit of the times . |
| 4 | To understand Nizan it is necessary , finally and perhaps most importantly , to recognise the fact that Nizan was an intellectual in search of moral integrity . |
| 5 | [ Mark Levene , ‘ Anglo-Jewish Foreign Policy in Crisis — Lucien Wolf , the Conjoint Committee and the War , 1914–18 ’ , Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England , vol. xxx , 1987–8 ; Chimen Abramsky , ‘ Lucien Wolf 's Efforts for the Jewish Communities in Central and Eastern Europe ’ , ibid. , vol. xxix , 1982–6 ; Josef Fraenkel , ‘ Lucien Wolf and Theodor Herzl ’ , ibid. , vol. xx , 1959–61 ; Max Beloff , ‘ Lucien Wolf and the Anglo-Russian Entente 1907–1914 ’ in The Intellectual in Politics and the Other Essays , 1970 . ] |
| 6 | When they were installed to start working on 24 October 1931 , the Company 's nine bogie cars and one or two Milnes four wheelers were then taken into store at the L.U.T 's Fulwell Depôt , never to turn a wheel in service again . |
| 7 | The plane had dipped wildly down on its left wing and skidded on the runway with only one wheel in contact with the ground . |
| 8 | Once the channel has been selected ( with or without bass shift ) using the requisite button , a patch can be selected and adjustments made using the Data wheel in conjunction with the volume , gain and EQ buttons . |
| 9 | Now on that twenty feet long , now I 'm up about say , you can say anything like about fifteen feet up in the in the air , might be less than that and then you got twenty feet up like that , well then there used to be wire and used to have a big wheel in top , which you could n't go over the top and with a wire , then I used to have a sling chain , my main hook and that was thirteen foot long and you take th that and on , on working on top of the lorry , see you got to be so careful and there 's men working on that lorry as well , course I broke the wheel . |
| 10 | The most obvious of these building elements are plates arranged radially , looking like the spokes of a bicycle wheel in section ( septa ) . |
| 11 | Winner of the contest in the colour section was Manx photographer John Hall L.P.R.S. His long lens shot of a M.E.R. tram travelling through Laxey required much patience to correctly frame the tram whilst also keeping Laxey Wheel in focus . |
| 12 | The first wheel in use was the Great or Walking Wheel , which required space for the spinner to walk to and fro . |
| 13 | So cyclist 's son to become big wheel in football ? |
| 14 | These regions could include two α -helixes , one of which would be amphipathic ( helical wheel in Fig. 1 e ) . |
| 15 | There you will see thousands of cars speeding by , each with the driver alone , his head thrown back as he yells the words aloud , her fist slapping the wheel in time to the beat , thousands of silent screams haring up the M1 to get to that meeting on schedule . |
| 16 | Startled , she looked up at him , met his eyes , and saw in them a searching expression that made her heart jerk in astonishment . |
| 17 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 18 | It was pointed out that some advisers had wanted there to be a period of in-service training across the borough in order to familiarise teachers with the principles and procedures of self-appraisal . |
| 19 | dockland borough in east London , where Captain Ravender lived when ashore . |
| 20 | Extrahepatic disorders unrelated to cirrhosis in portal hypertension occur with greater frequency in the elderly : in our experience more than 10% of patients over the age of 65 years with variceal haemorrhage have glucose intolerance requiring treatment with either insulin or oral hypoglycaemic agents . |
| 21 | The commercial , scientific and industrial world of capitalism ( or socialism ) does not need religion in order to go about its business . |
| 22 | For example , the Church of Scientology has fought in the courts of Australia to be defined as a religion in order to be able to claim tax-exemption , while The Science of Creative Intelligence ( Transcendental Meditation ) has fought in the courts of the United States to be not given religious status so that it can be taught in the public ( State ) schools — a practice denied to religious organisations by the First Amendment of the United States ' Constitution . |
| 23 | But the libertine who turned to religion in maturity seemed to get undue credit . |
| 24 | It was handy , anyway , that they celebrated their religion in English . |
| 25 | The Lord Bishop of Chester , the Right Rev. G.F. Fisher , gave an address on the place of religion in education . |
| 26 | In both colonies his Irish experience of the problems of language and religion in education proved invaluable . |
| 27 | Whilst I can not within the scope of a short book consider what each religion in turn has to say about God , I can at least take note of the religious pluralism of our time . |
| 28 | There is a new attitude towards religion in society , which makes it appropriate and timely to introduce what would , in some ways , be a more serious element into religious education ( and indeed this new seriousness is evident in many schools already ) . |
| 29 | During the last decade or so , however , an interest in and recognition of the importance of religion in society has re-emerged . |
| 30 | The existence of a powerful taboo against religion in society as a whole , together with the lack of opportunity given by the explicit curriculum for questioning the taboo , ensures that most of this implicit curriculum operates against religion — against its being taken seriously at all . |