Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] in [noun sg] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maclennan is more optimistic about improvements in forecasting than the Coopers and Lybrand team , partly because Scotland has a unique source of house price information ( known as the Register of Sasines ) . |
| 2 | Moreover all tactical systems were , in the eighteenth century , becoming more effective simply because of improvements in discipline and the increasingly effective training to which the ordinary soldier was now subjected . |
| 3 | The destruction slowed down because of surpluses in farmland and an increased realisation of the woodland 's conservation value . |
| 4 | Ian Stewart 's lecture brings a complementary view of chaos and order in the prediction of patterns in science and the art of quilts . |
| 5 | The statute based side of the law is equally tangled and displays the sort of confusion that is the inevitable consequence of shifts in policy and the national failure to decide upon , and adhere to , an agreed housing repairs , maintenance and rehabilitation policy … |
| 6 | The Research Defence Society was founded in 1908 by Stephen Paget , to educate the public in the facts about the use of animals in research and the importance of such research to the welfare of mankind . |
| 7 | Now it seems we are back to normal , with catchy weather frustrating attempts to get on where crops are fit , and further kicking of heels in prospect once the winter barleys have been cleared . |
| 8 | Chemical processes lead to the release of compounds in solution and the creation of new mineral products , while physical processes cause the breakdown of the original rock into smaller particles . |
| 9 | Although the Channel Tunnel Company set up during the 1880s survived the abandonment of the project , the pro-tunnel lobby had little success over the next 40 years despite a rash of Bills in Parliament and an inquiry by the Committee of Imperial defence in 1913 . |
| 10 | The division of the empire into fifteen military districts in August 1864 made possible the more efficient call-up of reservists in wartime and the partial transfer of decision-making to local commanders . |
| 11 | If one abandons a crude Marxist version of the composition of classes in society and the class struggle , then one similarly abandons any pretence of being able to reproduce that in the media . |
| 12 | The national union of workers in education and the arts gave 5 per cent of their pay for famine relief . |
| 13 | A policy of increasing income support rates in line with the annual review of national insurance benefits is the proper one to adopt when national insurance benefits are increased to take account only of changes in inflation since the last review . |
| 14 | Author of Early Netherlandish Painting as well as of Studies in Iconology and a monograph on Dürer , he was concerned with the question of ‘ national styles ’ . |
| 15 | While marriage was no longer a sacrament , it remained ‘ holy matrimony ’ , and involved the reading of banns in church and the use of the ring . |
| 16 | City are believed to owe tens of thousands of pounds in VAT but the club 's chairman Martin Fish insisted they will be able meet the debts without outside help . |
| 17 | There are also problems with the compression of morbidity thesis , most notably the lack of any clear and rigorous evidence of decreases in morbidity and the non-availability of measures of morbidity with which to test his proposition . |
| 18 | So the relative position of bureaucracy and other political institutions may be seen historically as a consequence of transitions in capitalism and the state . |
| 19 | It saddled liberalism with the problem of generals in politics and the mystique of the guerrilla . |
| 20 | ( 3 ) Sales of interests in land because the s61 ( SGA 1979 ) definition of " goods " as including fructus naturales ( see Chapter 2 ) may have to satisfy the requirements of s2 of the Law of Property ( Miscellaneous Provisions ) Act 1989 . |
| 21 | Talking to the Parliamentary Scientific Committee about his new schools in 1987 , the Secretary of State expressed himself unworried by the general shortage of teachers in mathematics and the sciences . |
| 22 | Research should begin in 1986 in two areas that have received only minimal research attention : the education of children in care and the effects of major social , economic and demographic trends on the need for child care and the nature of the services provided . |
| 23 | Decisive battles , the death of kings in battle or the life imprisonment of great men were rare events ; and against the very exceptional , decisive outcome of the battles of 1066 and 1106 we must set the endless , indecisive campaigns of William I and Henry I on the borders of their French domains ; the indecisive warfare of Stephen 's reign which led to anarchy in England . |
| 24 | To date , many health authorities have no difficulty in recruitment but the overall position shows a declining number of nurses in training and a reduced output of qualified staff . |
| 25 | For the last ten years or so , feminist commentators on social policy have remarked upon two particular features of the British social security system : first , that it is based on clear and consistent views about the nature of marriage and the economic and social relationship between husbands and wives ( Land and Parker , 1978 ; O'Donovan , 1979 ) ; and secondly , despite considerable changes in the position of women in society since the principles of the modern social security system were laid out in the Beveridge Report ( Beveridge , 1942 ) and consolidated in post-war legislation , the system itself and its principles have remained obstinately impervious to change ( Land , 1975 ) . |
| 26 | The collapse of the Dutch parent company of Leyland Daf left thousands of jobs in jeopardy whilst the Belgian Dutch governments took immediate action to try to ensure the survival of plants in their countries , our government sat back and waited to see if another chunk of British manufacturing would disappear . |
| 27 | But with thousands of jobs in mining and the offshore industry at stake , it would be unkind to prolong the agony too long . |
| 28 | As for li , it is pattern , structure , order ; the concrete uses of the word are for veins in jade and the grain of wood . |
| 29 | The distinction between individuals in government and the senior civil service , banks and corporations is often more blurred than in western countries , and therefore this elite tends to form a coherent and powerful set of economic interests , ( although these may be contradictory and are usually very diverse ) and are not only represented in government but often are the government . |
| 30 | provide for changes in technology or the needs of industry ; |