Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the 1930s the dominant force within Catalanism was the Esquerra , a coalition of democratic and republican groups formed in 1930–1 under the leadership of Francesc Macià . |
| 2 | Groups formed in this way tended to remain relatively stable , moving as a whole from one activity to another , although in a few classes they were formed only for specific activities ( generally mathematics ) and disbanded for the rest of the day . |
| 3 | The Movement for Multiparty Democracy ( MMD ) , a loose alliance of opposition groups formed in July 1990 , immediately applied for registration as a political party . |
| 4 | There never were 6,000 knights in England ; and it was rare in the twelfth century for more than a thousand knights to gather in answer to a feudal summons . |
| 5 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 6 | These are not competing principles of equal weight : the values listed in Article 10(2) are simply " a number of exceptions which must be strictly interpreted " . |
| 7 | Mounted on fine horses and riding at a gallop , two abreast , naked to the breech-clout , their faces covered with white , red and yellow paint in fanciful designs , and decked with plumes and feathers and trinkets fluttering in the sunshine . |
| 8 | She stared at him , her mouth slightly open so that her rather small even teeth gleamed in the thin October sunshine that was now filling the kitchen . |
| 9 | How do we account for the minimal pairs given in Chapter 9 ? |
| 10 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 11 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 12 | The only sound was the sea against the rocks and the hollow call of hungry birds circling in the sky . |
| 13 | Foxgloves form the foreground of my design this month , with sunflowers reaching up to the flocks of birds circling in the sky , above the cottage rooftops . |
| 14 | There is no doubt that the three surface positions for adjectives can be correlated with the three intensional patterns given in ( 37 ) . |
| 15 | Outside the press , groups developed in the 1970s and 1980s from several directions . |
| 16 | Fielden ( 2963 ) has shown that the roots of the segmental nerves in Anax imperator arise from separate dorsal and ventral tracts in the neuropile ; sensory activities predominate in the ventral tract and motor activity occurs almost entirely in the dorsal part . |
| 17 | Our Royal menu consisted of : breakfast , one pot of wish-wash called ‘ tea ’ ; lunch , a pot of dry vegetables boiled in water , one pot of vermicelli boiled in water . |
| 18 | They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment . |
| 19 | Minnie had written to her , a short and agonising note , penned with obvious difficulty , and she had replied at length , describing her — horror , Minnie , to hear of these floodings and most of all of the terrible pain which made my own insides contract in sympathy . |
| 20 | They will have their contracts honoured in full . ’ |
| 21 | This policy has been international in scope , as was presaged by LIFFE 's early attempt to use its niche in the European time zone to create a market in US T-bond futures , for which the CBoT had established the world 's most successful futures contract in the US time zone . |
| 22 | Skill descriptions are generalisable in that human operators have characteristic abilities and limitations and therefore have tendencies to perform in the same way . |
| 23 | However , the theoretical advances that these views represent do not seem to have significantly affected statements about literacy , which appear at times to remain in a pre-Saussurian world . |
| 24 | It consists of long chains of sulphur atoms which , at room temperature , break up and reform to produce S8 molecules crystallising in the orthorhombic lattice . |
| 25 | There were about thirty coins arranged in layers on cardboard trays ; each tray was encased in a plastic wallet . |
| 26 | Anticipation of Cabinet resistance does prevent Mrs Thatcher from establishing ministerial groups skewed in favour of policies she might favour but which will not run in full Cabinet . |
| 27 | Where no expansion was taking place , the only chance of transfer was if vacancies arose in the regular workforce . |
| 28 | The relative lack of council housing has made this system more important : in 1948 34 per cent of farmworkers lived in tied housing , but by 1976 this figure had increased to 53 per cent . |
| 29 | In order to attract foreign investment , the Malaysian government introduced legislation in 1990 , abolishing withholding tax and providing for a basic tax rate of 3% on net profits for certain activities undertaken in Labuan . |
| 30 | In dealing with the Renaissance , we are assuming , as de Man above indicates , that there is a relation between language and the phenomenal ( i.e. the range of activities undertaken in a defined historical period ) which is an a priori given . |