Example sentences of "[noun pl] occur [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Transitional stages in the evolution of definite cross-veins may also be observed in wings of the more specialized Palaeodictyoptera and among living Orthoptera , where both irregular and definite cross-veins occur in the same wing . |
| 2 | His greatest triumphs occur in the Sudanese campaigns after the murder of General Gordon , when he trains a native battalion to match the ferocity of the Dervish forces . |
| 3 | Yet one study showed that about one in five of all premarital pregnancies occur in the first month of a sexual relationship , and half within the first six months . |
| 4 | In class structure grammar ( see under grammar ) , most clauses have only one subject , but there are occasions where two subjects occur in the same clause . |
| 5 | Occasionally errors occur in the replicative cycle of a virus and defective viruses begin to appear in cells . |
| 6 | Simple brown soils occur in the maritime Antarctic , on damp north-facing slopes in association with Antarctica 's two species of flowering plants ( Allen and Heal , 1970 ) . |
| 7 | Precisely similar effects occur in the large strain torsion of a rubber . |
| 8 | About two thirds of infections occur in the first five days and more than half of these are apparent at birth . |
| 9 | By the late Saxon period , most settlements occur on the heavier soils ; indeed by that date settlement is found on a far greater variety of soil types . |
| 10 | If this is not diagnosed and recurrences occur at the same site , the patient will be labelled as a refractory case of non-specific urethritis and may be subjected to prolonged courses of antibiotic treatment , which , of course , will have no effect on the course of the disease . |
| 11 | In fact , most of the women who describe themselves as housewives do so very early in the test ; twenty of the twenty-five ‘ I am a housewife ’ statements occur in the first two places . |
| 12 | Colonic cancer in the proximal colon is very rare , most lesions occur in the distal colon . |
| 13 | As the vast majority of applications occur in the same peak period , should not people try to spread them so that there is not the same concentration ? |
| 14 | Ontogenetic and phylogenetic changes occur in the tracheal arrangement ( e.g. Leston , 1962 ; Whitten , 1962 ) without necessarily affecting the venational pattern . |
| 15 | Initially , these cellular changes occur in the parasitised gland ( Fig. 10 ) , but as it becomes distended by the growing worm which increases from 1.3-8.0 mm in length , these changes spread to the surrounding non-parasitised glands , the end result being a thickened hyperplastic gastric mucosa ( P1.I ) . |
| 16 | Approximately half of all reinfarcts occur within the first month and the rest tail out to one year . |
| 17 | Secondly , ordinal similarity , a relation referring to the degree in which characters in two strings occur in the same order . |
| 18 | In parts of Britain , two , or even all three , of these types of suitable positions occur in the same area . |
| 19 | The highest proportion of lone parent families occur amongst the Afro-Caribbean groups ; 42% of all West Indian/Guyanese and 24% of all African families are lone parent families . |
| 20 | Therefore , it may not represent a hiatal hernia as reported by Lauren and Cauthorne , who showed that these mucosal rings occur near the upper margin of the lower oesophageal sphincter . |
| 21 | This section deals mainly with the impact of mineral working , and the restoration of exhausted sites , in south and south east England although it is recognised that some of the most serious environmental problems occur in the National Parks and in areas where deep and opencast mining are carried out . |
| 22 | Two figures occur in the open literature from which we can deduce the amount released in the radioactive cloud that crossed England and Wales and Western Europe . |
| 23 | Other promising prospects occur in the Dalradian to the north-east and south-west of Aberfeldy ( Section 5.3 ) . |
| 24 | When thick low-placed chords occur in the left-hand part , rearrange them with a clear octave at the bottom of the chords . |
| 25 | In addition , Stemberger notes that lexical items from the closed class are less likely to be involved in sequencing errors ( in which lexical items occur in the wrong order in an utterance ) and in shift errors ( in which an item appears either too early or too late in an utterance ) . |
| 26 | Sussex heathlands occur on the Lower Greensand in the west and north-west of the county , in the central area of the High Weald on the Hastings Beds , and in a few places on the Downs where there are superficial deposits of acidic soils . |
| 27 | Rattlers occur in the warmer , drier parts of North America . |
| 28 | Scorpions occur in the warmer parts of the world and are nocturnal by habit , hiding by day in holes or under stones . |
| 29 | As silica is only mobilised in strongly alkaline environments and as gypsum and other soluble salts occur in the underlying zone of weathering , it is suggested that they may have been formed in an arid environment . |
| 30 | The larval stages occur in the gastric glands and can only be seen microscopically following processing of the gastric mucosa . |