Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 10.6 Where , exceptionally , the Director of Social Work considers that it is not possible to redeploy the employee within the Department , the full circumstances of the case will be forwarded to the Personnel Manager who will circulate details to other Heads of Department , in an appropriately confidential manner , with a view to identifying suitable vacancies for the employee in question .
2 Yet the clutch of Highers and then the Ordinary MA with which I eventually emerged turned out to be a pretty useful preparation for a life in journalism .
3 " Instead of the children of the working class being subjected to rigorous self-denial in preparation for a life-time in mill or mine , " he writes , " they have been offered instead the promise of the easy and immediate gratification which , in the end , can sabotage human development and achievement just as effectively as the poverty and hunger of the past . "
4 In England in the early part of the eighteenth century the crown occasionally gave some help , in a haphazard way , to suitable young would-be diplomats to travel in preparation for a career in government service .
5 In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be stated , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap .
6 In what follows an attempt will be made to set down the main features of polymer viscoelasticity to enable the connections between the phenomenological and the molecular to be states , where they are known , in preparation for the discussion in Chap .
7 Of necessity , he followed a twisting route through the trees in order to avoid patches of thick underbrush , all the while making sure he never strayed too far from the guiding line of the perimeter fence on his left .
8 Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese .
9 To impute that Dr Runcie has been an unsuccessful archbishop by quoting falling numbers in that part of the Anglican Communion which is the Church of England is to ignore a whole complex of reasons for a reduction in church-going , including , no doubt , the encouragement of a highly competitive and success-orientated society .
10 Reasons for a reduction in productivity may include a poorly planned operation which can result in longer learning curves and a low average output the introduction of more learning curves because of frequent changes of resources and working methods changing physical conditions lower outputs because plant was initially selected for one activity and is used for another inappropriate activity longer hours being worked regularly ( this can occur , for example , when accelerating the work rate to recover delays ) the lowering of morale owing to frequent changes of plan and poor management .
11 The reasons for the delay in provision of such items were , therefore , investigated , and these are set out in Table 2 , below .
12 However , there appear to be no obvious reasons for the variation in number of libraries in total , or their divisional spread .
13 Indeed , the relatively slow growth of productivity in many industries is one of the principal reasons for the increase in service sector jobs .
14 Some of the major reasons for the increase in resource consumption include a 23 per cent increase in Royline customers over the past year , a 60 per cent increase in the number and complexity of Back Office account enquiries and a 40 per cent increase in authorisation processing associated with online systems such as SWITCH , EDI and Cashline Reciprocity .
15 The reasons for the difference in treatment of gilding and silvering by the Romans is not clear .
16 Answer guide : The point being illustrated here is that although we have been told the finite life of the machine and we are aware of the reasons for the loss in utility we still have to make estimates of when the machine will cease to be useful .
17 The reasons for the decline in profitability are lucidly and cogently analysed in an influential Marxist work by Glyn and Sutcliffe in 1972 .
18 The Reasons for the Decline in Population Growth Rate
19 One of the reasons for the improvement in pedestrian safety on the Continent over the past decade , is that the focus of traffic calming work has been on the areas where most people live , that is on existing , not new , residential areas .
20 Hankin said of the young midfielder , who can also play in defence : ‘ It is a big opportunity for the lad in front of a crowd of 13,000 or 14,000 .
21 The audited consolidated accounts for the year in question will be used as the gauge by which to determine the profits .
22 Your opponent will almost certainly require you to produce receipted accounts for the disbursements in respect of which you are seeking payment .
23 East of Tromsø , the ‘ capital ’ of Arctic Norway , is Lyngen , a superb area of jagged peaks that is near paradise for the climber in winter .
24 Beginners sometimes see the short story as a novel in capsule , but it is n't .
25 There may well have been planning permission for the activities in question in those cases .
26 A council has been asked to give permission for the development in return for money for recreational facilities .
27 In ‘ Pride and Prejudice ’ it is essential for a suitor to request permission for the hand in marriage of the women he has chosen .
28 BACK IN THE COURTroom , David Calvert-Smith opens the case for the Crown in front of Judge Lowry .
29 The other was a £310,000 provision for the diminution in market value of an undisclosed investment .
30 There is the further grave difficulty about the idea in hand , as a little reflection will show , that in the given sense no causal circumstance , as distinct from cc " use , has the given power .
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