Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] in the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | His explanation is partly geographical ( these composers , and the ‘ folk remnants ’ they use , came from relatively ‘ backward ’ Eastern European countries , where such archaic traditions still had valid life ) and partly on the grounds that the old materials are reinterpreted through incorporation in the composers ' radically alienated perspective and progressive language ( Adorno 1973 : 35–6 ) . |
| 2 | There are two unique aspects to the collection of books in the Dolls ' House library . |
| 3 | The publication consists of a facsimile of the earliest ( c. 1683 ) list of books in the Advocates ' Library with an introduction , modern catalogue , and associated indexes prepared by Miss Maureen Townley of the British Antiquarian Division . |
| 4 | Geary explains the return to tactical violence in the 1 980s partly in terms of the police 's tougher and more sophisticated approach to public disorder induced by the inner-city disturbances of 1981 , though he attributes much of the unusually high level of violence in the miners ' strike to certain exceptional characteristics of the dispute : |
| 5 | The gardens he created were seldom visited until 1851 , when a series of articles in the Gardeners ' Chronicle created a sensation by describing the transplanting operations , the grafted conifers , the avenues of multiple rows of different species , the architectural topiary , and the series of formal gardens enclosed by hedges . |
| 6 | The lexical items marked by the informants can be seen as the linguistic realisations of elements in the readers ' constructed text-worlds , which are used isomorphically to perceive the coherence of the reading . |
| 7 | And , as with all myths , there 's a kernel of truth in the skinheads ' perception of themselves as outcasts . |
| 8 | But any suggestion of confidence in the players ' ability to perform on the field must be tempered by worries over their ability to handle life off it . |
| 9 | The items of costs in the solicitors ' bill that Stamp J. was considering did not fall into the category of litigation costs . |
| 10 | In Estonia and Latvia , pro-independence candidates seem to have won a majority of seats in the republics ' parliaments even in the first round of the local elections on March 18th . |
| 11 | There has been a lot of banter in the Supporters ' Club lately about the prospect of a supermarket on ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 12 | To play music in this way is considered both a privilege and an obligation , an expression of pride in the ancestors ' memory and their own heritage . |
| 13 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 14 | However , the two payments on 5 and 12 February , plus the sum of £1,000 by banker 's order , did produce a surplus of £2,310 in the accountants ' favour , which was available to discharge their fees earned in 1989 . |
| 15 | Examination and determination : The government should acknowledge that the handling of asylum applications is best carried out by qualified interviewers with knowledge of conditions in the applicants ' country . |
| 16 | He also felt their might prove a shortage of pace in the Lions ' back-row . |
| 17 | Again , the Lions combination which won the series against Australia was — despite differences in the forwards ' techniques — essentially England and Scotland plus Robert Jones . |
| 18 | where the plaintiff was employed by the Ministry of Supply as an inspector of munitions in the defendants ' munitions factory and , in the course of her employment there was injured by the explosion of a shell that was being manufactured . |
| 19 | While her husband shows off his lambs , Joanna Burr demonstrates spinning to another group of children in the visitors ' centre next door . |
| 20 | It may mean that a neonatal intensive care unit , after careful reflection , rather than emotional appeals and ‘ shroud-waving ’ , may have to give way to a number of other services , relating , for example , to the mentally ill , all of which can be financed for the cost of one such unit , which , in combination , will facilitate a measure of improvement in the patients ' conditions and their integration into society . |
| 21 | In the 55th minute Cookstown opened the scoring through Colin Bell who latched onto a flick from Bobby Foster before drilling the ball past Farrell in the visitors ' goal . |
| 22 | In that situation , a lack of trust in the tutors ' role was inevitable . |
| 23 | Right : A range of stunters in the authors ' collection shows how varied are the shapes of kites in the 1990s . |
| 24 | Apart from public education , my own field of interest and experience has been in the discourse analysis of language in the magistrates ' court , where I have played the roles of a bilingual interpreter and of a sociolinguist observing the language scene . |
| 25 | At Pipeline he was like Daniel in the Lions ' den . |
| 26 | The failure of any of the interviewers to ask the politicians about these dangerous and difficult matters made them all seem like collaborators in the politicians ' games . |
| 27 | His victories with Pebbles in the Breeders ' Cup Turf and Jupiter Island in the Japan Cup — the only successes by a Briton in the events — were superb feats , but perhaps even more laudable was his achievement in saddling Bold Arrangement to take second in the Kentucky Derby , a unique venture the know-alls told him was not even worth attempting . |
| 28 | The last and smallest darted back , self-importantly , to inscribe his name with care in the visitors ' book , which lay open on a table by the door , before allowing himself to be shepherded after his companions . |
| 29 | For criminal law practitioners , good practice standards were published in January in the Magistrates ' Court Guide , a praised new publication which gives practical advice on every aspect of the preparation of magistrates ' court cases . |
| 30 | For hearsay evidence to be admissible in proceedings in the magistrates ' court the proceedings have to be family proceedings . |