Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [art] [noun] in [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 3 ) A statement as to whether the firm will undertake transactions with or for the customer in investments which are not on-exchange or which are not readily realisable investments . |
| 2 | It is a truism to say that we have not yet come to terms with it , or with the changes in relationships it has brought . |
| 3 | The second group has shorter seed longevity and rarer seeding , germination in the open in some or in the shade in others , trees living for 100–300 years and producing light to dark woods of medium weight . |
| 4 | It is to be observed that a proceeding under section 7(5) in no way precludes a defendant who is remanded in custody from making an application for bail either to the justices , or to the Crown Court , or to a judge in chambers , whichever tribunal is appropriate . |
| 5 | Cast iron superseded lead as the main material used for gutters and downpipes but cast iron systems are now likely to be showing signs of leaking at the joints between lengths of guttering or at the joints in downpipes . |
| 6 | It is much harder to say if the ruling merchant employer class was affected adversely , in the same way as its rural counterpart , by the need to pay higher wages , or by a reduction in markets for the commodities which they produced at a time of population decline . |
| 7 | Management fees of investment trusts are considerably lower than those of unit trusts because of the wide disparities in money spent on advertising , although with the changes in rules on advertising for investment trusts , their fees are likely to rise . |
| 8 | In the pharmaceutical industry it is used as a suspending agent for liquids and as a binder in tablets . |
| 9 | Accuracy is cited both in percent error and as the shortfall in ohms . |
| 10 | Please leave the amount in figures on your cheque blank and for the amount in words write ‘ A sum not exceeding … pounds ’ ( your maximum upper limit ) . |
| 11 | A day of prayer for the spread of the Gospel and for an increase in vocations to the Priesthood . |
| 12 | Erm , after the s in books , erm , after the s in libraries and after the s in librarians . |
| 13 | I think er , it 's apostrophe after the s of classes , after the s in teachers , and after , after the s in husbands and after the s in schools 'cos they 're all plural plural . |
| 14 | The tournaments were played at Munster Road headquarters , and with the women in trousers , the games were quite competitive . |
| 15 | This radical treatment ( radical at least in the UK — it has distinct echoes of the accounting used in the old centrally-planned economies of Eastern Europe ) is a result of grafting on depreciation accounting ( and including the depreciation in prices ) to a cash accounting system . |
| 16 | The Belted bull colour-marks his progeny and traces of the belt persist into the second generation : it is a broad white band between the shoulders and hocks , and including the udder in cows . |
| 17 | A previous attempt to guess the pattern of housing inheritance , by Morgan Grenfell , a merchant bank , in 1987 , worked mainly from circumstantial evidence : from the rise in home ownership and house prices ( to predict the amounts to be inherited ) and from the rise in holdings of financial assets ( to predict that inheritors would invest much of their new wealth in deposit accounts and shares ) . |
| 18 | This was to lead to an increase in real wages and to a decline in rents for land , and in so far as these can be used to measure the standard of living of the people , they suggest that the condition of the peasantry improved markedly in the fifteenth century . |
| 19 | He would have been saddened by the closure of Kelham and by the decline in numbers at similar Anglican institutions . |
| 20 | Harp music from Ireland and around the world in concerts , workshops , masterclasses and lectures . |
| 21 | In the seventeenth century Herbert saw this kind of understanding as a form of prayer which he describes not only as " God 's breath in man returning to his birth " but as an illumination in terms which Rolle and Hilton would have recognised : Church bels beyond the starres heard , the soul 's bloud , The land of spices ; something understood . |
| 22 | Heavily outnumbered , but with a superiority in firearms , Christopher da Gama fought an inconclusive battle near Lake Ashangi . |
| 23 | Hopefully , it will continue to do so , but without the levy in lives it has taken in the past . |
| 24 | I shall rely not just on statistics but on the position in communities which I have known well over many years . |
| 25 | These two problems can be overcome but at a price in terms of the overall precision and accuracy of the result . |
| 26 | Increase in production in almost all cases came through livestock and livestock products and was most likely because of a reduction in losses . |
| 27 | Apparently the offer from the department to submit itself to cross-examination came about because of a gaff in communications between the department and counsel instructed on its behalf by the Treasury Solicitor . |
| 28 | In some way , those trade figures reflect that recession ; they 've improved because of a drop in imports while exports are still rising . |
| 29 | The governing body announced its intention last year to admit male students because of a drop in admissions from women . |
| 30 | The governing body announced its intention last year to admit male students because of a drop in admissions from women . |