Example sentences of "[adv prt] in [adj] [noun pl] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The British Technology Group , formed by a merger of the National Enterprise Board and the National Research Development Council , has invested in in small firms in electronics . |
| 2 | the mental processes involved in object recognition ; 2 how object recognition and naming develops in children ; and 3. how it can break down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 3 | Such research is necessary for understanding the mental processes involved in object recognition ; how object recognition may develop ; and , how such recognition breaks down in certain cases of brain damage . |
| 4 | For too long we have allowed ourselves to become bogged down in interminable discussions about organisation both within the classroom and outside it . |
| 5 | These potentialities are successively narrowed down in subsequent stages of development . |
| 6 | During heat waves , companions walked beside me in shorts and a T-shirt , while I lurched along in two tons of wool , certain in the knowledge that removing the jumper for 30 seconds would result in instant death by exposure . |
| 7 | But it was all hazed over in endless mists of blue . |
| 8 | Human relationships can not usually be kept within neat bounds by both partners , but tend to spill over in deep emotions of pain and anger . |
| 9 | The corals were presumably killed off in glacial periods by emersion , by the decrease in sea temperature and by the increased amount of mud stirred up by the lowered sea level . |
| 10 | As pressure for land grows , more and more of Sri Lanka 's surviving elephants find themselves cut off in small patches of forest surrounded by agriculture . |
| 11 | Since peasants who still possessed any seed reserves or livestock were excluded from relief , they were compelled to sell them off in some cases in order to survive . |
| 12 | These have to be tested and followed up in new lines of inquiry . |
| 13 | This can be seen in the way in which the sides lined up in recent arguments about sabbatarianism in the DUP manifesto . |
| 14 | The dome diminishes in thickness from nearly 20 feet at the springing to almost 5 feet at the crown and it is built up in horizontal layers of brickwork and concrete where the cement mixture is varied so that the specific gravity diminishes with increasing height . |
| 15 | As we sat in the ATV canteen after recording the first eight episodes of The Power Game , he said : ‘ Think of all the fame stored up in those rolls of tape . |
| 16 | It is essential to look beyond the public utterance dressed up in these metaphors of battle , and seek the structural forms which determine the ideological base . |
| 17 | In the face of this central problem , the valuable work that has gone on in recent years in narratology , and other aspects of fictional form , is curiously difficult to apply in practice . |
| 18 | In general , it can often be difficult for us to be sure just what is going on in supposed examples of communication . |
| 19 | It also provides an opportunity , and I think this is quite important , for people to get to know what is happening within the fields of expertise , which increasingly in our society become more and more specialised , more and more hedged off from one another , and in a sense I think that there is a very great danger if intelligent adults in the community , laymen in effect , do n't have some idea , some coherent idea , of what 's going on in these fields of specialisation and expertise . |
| 20 | In the past , when a postponement was to our obvious advantage , I have had to physically restrain fanatical supporters from going out in freezing conditions to shovel snow off the pitch . |
| 21 | British children lose out in critical areas of education . |
| 22 | ‘ The great thing about this boat is that we can take it out in all kinds of weather throughout the year , and everyone will be perfectly safe on board . |
| 23 | ‘ The great thing about this boat is that we can take it out in all kinds of weather throughout the year , and everyone will be perfectly safe on board . |
| 24 | The two trials were carried out in adjacent populations in West Africa ; one looked in detail at the effect of vitamin A supplementation on morbidity and the other at its effect on mortality . |
| 25 | The dark galaxy spiralled around her , each constellation pricked out in delicate shades of fragrance . |
| 26 | So much of the enforcement task is carried out in private negotiations between officer and polluter that the field man is in a position to be adaptive in the demands he makes , reflecting the exigencies of any particular case . |
| 27 | Well this is , this is where , this is , I mean this is one of the issues that has to be brought out in any discussions concerning partnership . |
| 28 | The red silk dress had been exchanged for a slender column of midnight-blue sequins that caught the light and spun it back in dizzying rainbows of colour . |
| 29 | The property room looked like a theatrical battlefield with masks and armour lying around in different stages of completion . |
| 30 | Most of the reactions one learns about in elementary courses in chemistry , and also most of the reactions shown in a chart of metabolism , require the forming and breaking of ‘ covalent ’ bonds . |