Example sentences of "[noun] in [art] [adj] [noun pl] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 2 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 3 | There are two problems here : getting the arms and legs in the right holes and getting the garment the right way round . |
| 4 | As a consequence , although the amount of , say , blue light reflected by the red area may have gone up , so will the amount of blue light reflected by the green area As a consequence , the ratio of blue light in the two areas will remain the same , as will the ratio of green light in the two areas and the ratio of red light . |
| 5 | The sources of control play their part to varying degrees and in varying combinations in the different contexts that constitute our social worlds . |
| 6 | There will still be a strong North-East contingent , however , including Edwards in the triple jump , Colin Walker in the 5,000 metres and Tony Morrell in the 1500 metres . |
| 7 | The object of this study is to consider in detail the sources of capital investment that facilitated such a rapid rate of industrialisation , and the consequences of these patterns of investment in the different branches and sectors of the economy . |
| 8 | The plaintiff now seems to have the option of applying to join the new defendant in the existing proceedings as happened in Liff v Peasley [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 623 or starting separate proceedings and relying on Thompson v Brown . |
| 9 | His is a temperament well calculated to flatter and intrigue readers in the early teens and to draw them into vicarious adventure . |
| 10 | The work of the Association of Women of El Salvador ( AMES ) and other women 's organizations in the controlled zones and with refugees has been very impressive in this sense . |
| 11 | Recent drilling for oil and natural gas has shown that continuous permafrost underlies much of the Arctic , reaching thicknesses of 600–1000m in the coldest regions and extending out under the sea in the Arctic basin ( Figure 3.4 ) . |
| 12 | Li Peng , who accepted an invitation to visit Egypt , stated that the Chinese government " resolutely " opposed Israel 's resettlement of Soviet Jews in the occupied territories as contrary to international law and detrimental to the Middle East peace process . |
| 13 | That was the emphatic prediction of Maine Road boss Peter Reid yesterday despite White 's scant return of only two goals in the 16 games since his bleak debut for England . |
| 14 | He predicted that his party would pick up a fourth seat in the Lower Falls and hold its three seats in Upper Falls — giving it a total of 10 seats on the council . |
| 15 | To assist progress , will my hon. Friend and the EC consider telling Mr. Shamir that they will take economic action unless Israel stops its illegal settlement programme in the occupied territories and abides by the Geneva convention , which is being systematically broken ? |
| 16 | With adverse publicity about the failure to establish a development programme in the black townships and a renewal of sanctions from the ANC now inevitable , Botha believes that the time has come for ageing administrators like Danie Craven to step down . |
| 17 | ‘ If one single vessel enters the port of Famagusta in the fourteen nights that follow Epiphany , the siege will be lifted . |
| 18 | Not only was Leslie 's fate unknown , but there appeared to be considerable confusion in the regimental records and in subsequent references to the operations in which he died . |
| 19 | The complicated picture that emerges from this variability in the relative expectations that we have of reward or loss from criminal as against conforming behaviour is compounded by the fact that our different needs and requirements may often pull in quite different directions . |
| 20 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 21 | But VMI 's lawyers suggested at the court hearing that West Point has ‘ gone soft ’ , that its discipline records show a pattern of sexual tension in the 15 years since women were admitted — and that these have led to ‘ substantial , deep-seated problems . ’ |
| 22 | In front of the railway station , a second police car ( summoned by a confident Morse as Lewis had driven him from North Oxford ) was now waiting , and the Chief Inspector nodded a perfunctory greeting to the two detective-constables who sat side by side in the front seats as they watched , and awaited , developments ; watched the three men walk over to the twenty-minute waiting-area set aside for those meeting passengers from British Rail journeys — an area where parking cost nothing at all ; watched them as they passed through that area and walked into the main car-park , with the bold notice affording innocent trespassers the clearest warning : |
| 23 | He had his beloved wife Helen by his side in the last days and hours of his life . |
| 24 | Set up under the Bonn Convention on migratory species , the agreement obliges its members — Belgium , Denmark , Finland , Germany , Greece , Ireland , Luxembourg , the Netherlands , Norway , Sweden and the UK — to protect bats in the various ways that bats can be protected : finding out where they are and conserving their habitats , studying them , controlling pesticides and stopping people from killing them . |
| 25 | An elected departmental committee also assists the head of department in the following terms as defined in the Statutes of the University : ‘ The functions of the departmental committee shall be to advise the head of department on all matters affecting the department , with particular reference to ( a ) annual estimates ; ( b ) allocation of resources and accommodation ; ( c ) junior academic appointments . ’ |
| 26 | Gibble and Chu are not distressed by the discrepancy , because there is fair uncertainty in the interatomic potentials that are used in the calculation . |
| 27 | Besides , she 'd lost enough weight in the past weeks since she had walked out on Marcus not to have to worry about her seams splitting after the odd indulgence ! |
| 28 | I am happy that he is receiving education suitable to age , ability and aptitude at home , in fact , between ourselves , it is probably more appropriate and worthwhile than that which he is likely to be receiving at school — not through any fault in the local schools but because schools can not always provide ideal circumstances for all learning and certainly can not provide the context in which John is operating . |
| 29 | It 's wrong , Mr Deputy Speaker , if they 're living in this country erm on a semi-permanent basis and happen to have been here last October they 'll have a vote so will any everybody else who 's a citizen of the European union , so will peers of the realm who happen to be living elsewhere whether they 're in this country or outside this country under these regulations and previous regulations , have a vote in the European elections and I think it 's wholly wrong that erm citizens of other European countries namely France because that 's the one and it 's remarkable is it not that France is the one that 's gon na be the cause of this whole edifice collapsing if we do n't submit to their extra demands but citizens of France who are citizens living in their colonies , as I 've said in South America , the West Indies and the Pacific , will have a vote in the European elections on June the ninth and yet we have got citizens for whom we are responsible for in this house , we can not shirk it onto anyone else , we deny them the responsibility and I think it 's about time the house addressed this matter . |
| 30 | France has taken notice of the 15 per cent Green vote in the regional elections and stopped nuclear testing in the Pacific . |