Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] in [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Secretary of State now give a guarantee that no sixth-form college student will be charged for activities in relation to the school curriculum , or is this to be yet another example of pay-as-you-learn under the Conservative Government ? |
| 2 | Increased prosperity , improved diet and improved health services were the main factors advanced for improvements in health by the older age groups ( Table 6.1 ) . |
| 3 | I 'd stand for hours in front of the mirror , painting my face and fingernails and backcombing and lacquering from a sticky , plastic squeeze bottle until my hair resembled a busby . |
| 4 | Mr J Emslie asked if he might have the use of the hall for meetings in connection with the 1991 census . |
| 5 | The searching self-portraits of Rembrandt in approaching old age , as he became uglier and poorer and more grimy , were acclaimed as masterpieces in preference to the earlier elegant portraiture of his society period . |
| 6 | The group now work as Artists in Residence in a joint scheme between the University and Conservatoire . |
| 7 | The Italian city states , and others , were for centuries in conflict in the Mediterranean over sources of , and outlets for , trade . |
| 8 | Containers are strongly associated with male-rich graves , while perforated spoons found in a few female graves may have been used as strainers in connection with the serving of drink . |
| 9 | Carter dutifully pose for snaps in front of a scaled-down Houses Of Parliament and toy with the idea of burning the wooden model to the ground . |
| 10 | The Holsteins also tend to have much more white in the coat so that the white areas predominate and they could almost be described as white-and-blacks in contrast to the black-and-white Friesian type . |
| 11 | In his absence the regents made concessions to the magnates in return for grants of taxes in aid of the war with Scotland . |
| 12 | One thing about the book 's apparatus does irritate : the absence of an index of titles in addition to the index of first lines . |
| 13 | It thus lends support to the materialistic view that it makes sense to think of objects in abstraction from a mind which perceives them . |
| 14 | Although the confusion of shifts in allegiance within the various loyalist groupings made it difficult for contemporaries to see the underlying direction of change , with hindsight we can see a simplification of unionist politics . |
| 15 | But this knowledge will not alone enable us to understand language in use for this is always a matter of realizing the particular token meanings of signs in association with the context of utterance . |
| 16 | The present chapter reconsiders the historical and rhetorical nature of attitudes in relation to a specific issue : opinions about the British monarchy . |
| 17 | Hyperbolic functions are commonly used in kinetics : eg , the speed of waves in water over a shallow bottom is given by : V ² = 1.8 L th ( 6.3 d / L ) where V is velocity in knots and L is the wavelength in feet . |
| 18 | During the test , the child is required to indicate a choice from a selection of pictures in response to a verbal stimulus . |
| 19 | As soon as the cold fingers let go for a moment , I pulled my hand quickly back , put a pile of books in front of the broken window , and tried not to listen to the desperate cries outside . |
| 20 | Quicker movement of books in transit in the EC should be assured . |
| 21 | Indeed one corner of the bed was supported by a number of books in place of a missing leg . ’ |
| 22 | He says : ‘ While the number of homes in possession at the end of 1991 was the highest ever at 160 , the previous highest figure was 116 in June 1988 , when the mortgage rate of 9.75pc was the lowest for the past 13 years . |
| 23 | Football coach , Bear Bryant , is also a farmhand and in the old days farmhands used to guide a team of animals in front of the plough , encouraging them and making sure they all pulled together . |
| 24 | Why does he refuse to discuss the regulations on the welfare of animals in transit with the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals ? |
| 25 | The definitional overlap technique compares the definitions of the content words and ascribes a score to each , proportional to the number of words in common with the definitions of its neighbours . |
| 26 | " There 's a batch of bushes in berry on the morning side of the mountain , " said Bower-bird . |
| 27 | For example , in [ 1 ] Mr Micawber 's paraphrase could be analysed as a change of tactics in accordance with the aim of optimising relevance:2 However , speakers and writers also reformulate utterances in planned discourses . |
| 28 | Conventional stereo , reproduced from a pair of loudspeakers in front of the listener , produces a less dramatic effect but over a much wider listening area . |
| 29 | At the moment computers are increasing in speed by an average factor of ten per annum , and the number of computers in use in the Western world is increasing by about twenty-five percent per year . |
| 30 | ‘ The relatively small numbers of servers in comparison to the desktop , and the challenges of robustly implementing the distinct product capabilities of NT raise serious doubts concerning its viability as a server operating system . ’ |