Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was blood everywhere and in minutes the whole scene looked like Custer 's Last Stand . |
| 2 | In minutes the sky had darkened and a heavy rainstorm was lacing the fields before me . |
| 3 | In minutes the last remnants of life on the planet were gone . |
| 4 | The full implementation of the substance and spirit of the Wagner Committee 's proposals might go some way towards giving people in institutions a greater say . |
| 5 | In institutions the pattern is reversed so that there are 13,000 adults in institutions in severity group 1 and 108,000 in category 10 . |
| 6 | The other is the note in Appendix F , which says that some hobbit-names have been retained by Tolkien without translation , ‘ though I have usually anglicized them by altering their endings , since in Hobbit-names a was a masculine ending , and o and e were feminine . ’ |
| 7 | " Nowhere has the longing for Greece been revealed in purer tones " , proclaimed Nietzsche , and a feu lines earlier , in equally heartfelt terms , he spoke of Hölderlin 's " bitter truths to his countrymen on the subject of their cultural inadequacies : " In Hyperion he hurls sharp and cutting words at German " barbarism " " and , above all ; " he hated in Germans the mere specialist , the philistine " . |
| 8 | If money is paid into the account in notes a charge of 1% ( minimum £6 ) is made . |
| 9 | Additional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 10 | Aditional information can lead to better odds and bigger returns but if the information costs more to obtain than the increase in returns the result is a net loss . |
| 11 | Nor are Northern industries profiting : they have forfeited at least $30 billion in exports every year since the debt crisis erupted in 1982 . |
| 12 | And it let an old house alongside with nothing in it and hardly a door on it and that stood right alongside of that one and it must have been like a comb it just must have gone in strips the gale for that house was now twelve foot away from the other one . |
| 13 | In driveages the routine samples taken by the pit are lower in every single case than the samples taken and checked by independent laboratories used by British coal . |
| 14 | Could I just conclude Moderator by saying that those who are engaged in ACTS the churches which are participating members of this action of churches together in Scotland are engaged in a journey together . |
| 15 | In cultures the world over , women ( and in many cultures , men too ) have made their skin silky by bathing in oils , scented themselves with delicious perfumes , draped themselves in satin , velvet , silk and feathers , braided , brushed or oiled their hair , painted their lips and darkened their eyes and weighted themselves with gold and silver , or heavy ornaments . |
| 16 | The phrase comes from Dryden 's The Conquest of Granada , Part One , I. i : ‘ When wild in woods the noble savage ran ’ ( CS 14 ) . |
| 17 | The brand name of this factory was sold and is now being manufactured abroad , but an unsuspecting public still buys that brand , after having paid in taxes the outstanding debt . |
| 18 | Working in pairs the students readily found contexts in which some of the modal forms are used , but not all . |
| 19 | Birds , like mammals , produce sound by blowing air from their lungs over vibratory vocal chords in the trachea , although in birds the vocal cords are situated slightly closer to the lungs than in mammals . |
| 20 | When she got home , she felt for the first time in months the need to write a letter , to commit her thoughts and feelings to paper and communicate through the medium of paper and pen with someone . |
| 21 | For the first time in months the cloud had lifted from his spirits , the tightness in his stomach vanished . |
| 22 | Some of us were great courtesans very definitely , certainly Stella sitting on her stool at the bar , you 'd think she was in pearls the way she sat there . |
| 23 | Coleridge 's opinion of Dorothy was soon to be recorded by him in words no less intense , and by the time he parted from the Wordsworths on 28 June , they were all determined that their separation from one another should be as brief as possible . |
| 24 | 1a identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of units , tens , hundreds and thousands ; 1b represent in numerals a whole number given in words ; 1c represent in words a whole number given in numerals ; 1d order whole numbers ; 1e provide a whole number which is between two given numbers in size ; 1f represent a given whole number on a number line or read one from a number line or scale ; 1g demonstrate understanding of relationships of the form 13 x 8 ( 10 x 8 ) + ( 3 x 8 ) . |
| 25 | 2a The pupil can identify the place value of a column or a digit in it for values of tenths , hundredths and thousandths ; 2b the pupil can represent in numerals a decimal number given in words ; 2c the pupil can represent in words a decimal number given in numerals ; 2d the pupil can order decimal numbers ; 2e the pupil can provide a decimal number which is between two given numbers in size ; 2f the pupil can represent a given decimal number on a number line or read one from a number line or scale ; 2g the pupil can understand relationships of the form 1.3 x 8 ( I x 8 ) + ( 0.3 x 8 ) ; 2h the pupil can represent a fraction in tenths or hundredths as a decimal ; 2i the pupil can represent a decimal with not more than two decimal places as a fraction . |
| 26 | ‘ I can not express in words the love and care which has been show to me by all my Christian friends since Mam died . ’ |
| 27 | Every society requires its witnesses : those who are not afraid to render and preserve in words the range and scope of human experience for that time and that place . |
| 28 | These couples suffer from what sex therapists say is the number one problem in relationships the loss of sexual appetite . |
| 29 | In Butterfly , for instance , they open coral and as they mature turn green with a cream margin ; in Kagiri-nishiki the leaves are pale green , edged in pink . |
| 30 | They have given staff in schools the space to meet as a group and get to terms with issues over a longer period , complementing the series of other meetings and team meetings that go on anyway . |