Example sentences of "[prep] the [adj] [noun pl] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the few British medals at the last Olympics was in the Star two-man keelboat class , and our line-up for the 1992 Games in Barcelona is looking very strong in many of the ten different classes . |
| 2 | Apollinaire has been aptly called a company promoter of the avant-garde , responsible , as it were , for the successful flotations in Paris of Cubism and futurism . |
| 3 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 4 | But realistically it is hard to predict anything other than a 100 per cent success rate for the All Blacks in Ireland . |
| 5 | Earthtrust removed the dead bodies and organised regular supplies of fish for the surviving dolphins in Shakang Harbour who were starving to death . |
| 6 | Sociologists are often attracted by Weber 's account because it gives an explanation for the distinct differences in life-chances between different strata in contemporary capitalism . |
| 7 | Furthermore the public expected increased ‘ productivity ’ in return for the substantial increases in salaries achieved in the 1970s by unionised teachers in both the UK and the USA . |
| 8 | One chilling line read , ‘ The Rushdie affair can not help but set back hopes for an early release for the western hostages in Lebanon . ’ |
| 9 | His primary task in the short term would be to mobilize it for the regional elections in March . |
| 10 | The move was widely seen as part of the Socialist Party 's strategy for the regional elections in March to counter the growing popularity of far-right views . |
| 11 | ( He repeated this idea for the six dancers in Monotones I and II . ) |
| 12 | Another group is looking at the development of new modules to add to the current specifications for the general SVQs in care . |
| 13 | Teachers , university professors and students have provided much of the intellectual leadership for the political organizations in opposition to the regime . |
| 14 | Improved insulation for the 1,839 homes in Whinney Banks , North Ormesby , Hemlington , Acklam Garden City and the town centre would cost another £2.5m . |
| 15 | Welch implies that to account for the apparent increases in zooplankton biomass over the past 30 years in the North Pacific without a marked concomitant increase in phytoplankton biomass ( as reflected by chlorophyll ) , phytoplankton productivity must have increased . |
| 16 | ( That the government was ready for a strike was a widespread interpretation of its appointment of Ian MacGregor to chair the NCB from September 1983 on ; MacGregor chaired British Steel in 1980–1 , a period encompassing its major dispute , and was believed responsible for the major cuts in job levels ; it was assumed that he was expected to achieve the same in the coal industry . ) |
| 17 | As we stepped into the street , behind the others , as grateful for the iced Cokes in prospect as they were , she whispered to me : ‘ You are doing well , Adolph . |
| 18 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 19 | In the early numbers there are such diverse items as an account of a tea given for the Baptist children in Port Ellen and the news that Lord Rosebery had succeeded Mr Gladstone as Prime Minister . |
| 20 | The mode of action of the toxin appears to be for the non-conserved sequences in Domain II to bind specifically to a glycoprotein on the target insect 's gut membrane . |
| 21 | ‘ I got a lot of response from the article and my request for someone to move into my home and look after the children while I was away for the eight months in Bristol , ’ she said . |
| 22 | A GENERATION ago mammalian neuroanatomy seemed a scholarly subject , a frame for functional studies but unlikely to provide an impetus for the astonishing advances in understanding of the brain over the last four decades , in which Hans Kuypers became one of the leaders . |
| 23 | Rosie Barnes 's pretty face , not unlike the young Margaret Thatcher , is etched with disappointment and pain as she hears she has failed to keep her seat for the Liberal Democrats in Greenwich . |
| 24 | I 'm Gwynoro Jones and I 'm the candidate for the Liberal Democrats in Hereford . |
| 25 | The same is true for the Liberal Democrats in Cheltenham , where they 're trying to increase a healthy majority . |
| 26 | Genetic changes in both host and parasite were responsible for the evolved differences in virulence . |
| 27 | Whilst the extension of the franchise and Christopher Addison 's hopes for building the ‘ homes fit for heroes ’ showed a genuine desire for the radical elements in government to reform British society , the fact that Britain needed to export nearly one-third of her output to pay for essential imports necessitated the re-establishment of settled trading patterns and the development of new markets . |
| 28 | Correction for the small differences in age between the two groups with the Mantel-Haenzel statistic did not affect the results ( difference in prevalence of advanced retinopathy p<0.001 ; differences in rate of laser photocoagulation for previously unrecognised retinopathy p=0.02 ) . |
| 29 | That is not to repudiate the idea of a serious normative function for the pastoral conventions in Leapor 's work , even with respect to ‘ Mopsus ’ . |
| 30 | Consider again the differential equation for the three-element model : where we have substituted for the various constants in terms of the relaxation times complex constants . |