Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [verb] [adv prt] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The commercial department of the Central Authority was staffed at the top by three ex-CEB men who had been experts in the complex bulk tariff rules laid down in 1926 to secure equity between independent undertakings : a job which no longer existed . |
| 2 | After their system of export quotas broke down in 1989 , world coffee prices almost halved . |
| 3 | Some are in a state of imminent collapse and in others , side passages branch off in all directions and shafts can suddenly appear at your feet dropping down hundreds of feet into the darkness . |
| 4 | In the fine white sand , the pools of dark blood stains stood out in stark contrast to the natural beauty of the coast . |
| 5 | only a fraction of the capital and revenue resources tied up in existing institutions can , in practice , be redirected toward the provision of district or community services . |
| 6 | Windfarms are groups of 100ft high wind turbines set up in exposed areas to create electric power . |
| 7 | Invariably a financial institution will not risk the long term profits bound up in honest work and good reputation for the short term gains to be had from abusing conflict of interest situations such as dealing on the basis of inside information obtained from a client . |
| 8 | When these targets had been achieved , with increased skill and investment levels showing up in higher productivity , the proposal would be to implement a higher national minimum wage for all workers , aiming for 60 per cent of average earnings over the following five years . |
| 9 | And they do n't figure they , they get more confused when the county council elections come up in ninety three . |
| 10 | From the Friarfold Vein complicated branch veins run off in all directions in what is called a ribbon deposit . |
| 11 | From 1604 onwards , Otho Nicholson and other commissioners inquired into ‘ assart lands ’ which had been brought into cultivation within the ancient Forest bounds laid down in 1300 . |
| 12 | A COLOURFUL sight greeted tourists at the Sellafield Visitors Centre this month — a party of Morris dancers decked out in rustic costume . |
| 13 | Chimney pots stood out in black profile like squat , ebony gargoyles . |
| 14 | Civil War conditions lingered on in other ways . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got four old Vickers guns set up in strategic positions , so neither group should be able to get in . |
| 16 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro . |
| 17 | The surrender values set out in these tables have been calculated according to the rules prescribed by Lautro , ( the regulatory authority for the marketing of life assurance and unit trusts ) . |
| 18 | Grain surpluses pile up in disused hangars , while pesticide and machinery sales- ’ men grow rich on a tide of public subsidies . |
| 19 | As chart 14 shows , the annual default rate on junk bonds edged up in 1989 to 4% and in 1990 doubled to 8.7% . |
| 20 | Below The parlour chamber has its early-17th-century wall studs picked out in red to denote its higher status than the other , grey-painted , rooms . |
| 21 | In France the now outmoded system of jeunes de langue created by Colbert was gradually replaced by the more up-to-date teaching provided by the Ecole Spéciale des Langues Orientales Vivantes set up in 1795 . |
| 22 | Some 22,500 foreign merchant ships passed through in 1992 , a 10 per cent increase on the previous year . |
| 23 | Indeed , the whole book inevitably paints a gloomy picture over the future for ex-Yugoslavia , particularly for minority populations caught up in nationalist disputes . |
| 24 | Er … yes , perhaps just a few more condom and illicit sex gags turned up in that show than normal . ’ |
| 25 | This assay has been proved to provide reliable whole blood and serum concentrations that correlate well with monoclonal or polyclonal radioimmunoassay measurements carried out in renal transplant recipients . |
| 26 | Through play children act out in miniature the adult dramas of life and learn how to master new situations . |
| 27 | Later , from a nearby height Wolverine Squad spied many other corpses of Karkazon natives laid out in sinister rune patterns along one dismal lacquered boulevard — spoor of the Boars , now being exorcised with burning incense and sprinkled acid by some raving Sagramoso cultist guarded by skaters . |
| 28 | This project uses information from a considerable number of fertility surveys carried out in developing countries . |
| 29 | The point appeared to be taken on board by UK energy minister Tim Eggar who acknowledged that there were other areas competing for shares of hard-pressed oil company budgets as the world oil prices fell back in real terms to pre-1974 levels . |
| 30 | Despite the publicity ( and acrimony ) surrounding the ‘ two cultures ’ debate in the early 1960s ( Snow 1964 ; Leavis and Yudkin 1962 ) , the distinction is implicit rather than overt in Robbins ( 1963 ) , although the worries about the intake of maths/science-based students show through in several sections ( see , for example , Robbins 1963 , Table 45 ) . |