Example sentences of "[noun] in [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Whatever the long-term effects , there are great advantages in working in the mainstream : access to vastly superior resources and a huge potential audience ; the pay is also infinitely better , albeit insecure if you are freelance .
2 What was the , what was the point in averaging in the first place ?
3 STRONG demand from other segments of the construction market left Hewden Stuart , Britain 's largest plant hire group , virtually untouched by current problems in housebuilding in the first half of the year .
4 John Richards , a top City retail analyst , explains : ‘ The most important development in retailing in the 1980s was the deep-discount warehouse format .
5 He advertised , ‘ Instruction in writing in the various hands , merchants ’ accounts by the Italian method of Double Entry , arithmetic in all its branches , algebra etc. , plain and spherical trigonometry and geometry , drafting , navigation , the use of the globes , planisphere etc ’ .
6 You must also confirm your request in writing in the relevant box on the booking form .
7 Perhaps the most important and far-reaching change in nursing in the past ten years has been the wholesale move away from the subservient , passive role of the nurse who was accountable to doctors for any treatments she undertook , and to nursing supervisors for standards of personal conduct and discipline .
8 Again , Fry 's study of difficulties confronted by disabled people in voting in the 1987 general election ( Fry , 1987 ) indicates a series of problems in the exercise of democratic rights which are to large degree sui generis , and can only be understood through specific knowledge of disability .
9 Being in London , he could exploit both the court and the merchant community as patrons , and would have been exposed to the new developments in surveying in the published works of Leonard and Thomas Digges [ qq.v. ] and others .
10 Prior to the Elephant Pass battle , there had been sporadic reports of upsurges in fighting in the Tamil-dominated north during May-June .
11 As for volunteering generally , the hon. Gentleman will know that there has been a vast increase in volunteering in the whole range of voluntary services in the last decade .
12 Their presence is , however , indicative of pollution , and any sudden increase in foaming in the raw water should be regarded with suspicion .
13 There would have been no pleasure or satisfaction in shooting in the 80s . ’
14 The main reason for the decline in housebuilding in the public sector is the strict control of local authorities ' capital spending by the central government , as part of the government 's attempt to control overall public expenditure .
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