Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] in [art] [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 | 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 : |
| 3 | And , as with all myths , there 's a kernel of truth in the skinheads ' perception of themselves as outcasts . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There has been a lot of banter in the Supporters ' Club lately about the prospect of a supermarket on ‘ The Tip ’ . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Winter then suffered an attack of cramp in the jockeys ' changing room and had to be assisted in preparing for the ride on Mandarin . |
| 8 | Nowadays I am inclined to compromise where as once I would have felt confident of victory in a dogs ' confrontation . |
| 9 | He delivers the wretched data of life in an itinerants ' lodging house . |
| 10 | He also felt their might prove a shortage of pace in the Lions ' back-row . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Rick has been teaching for twelve years and is Head of Mathematics in a boys ' secondary modern school in a small town , with an intake mainly from middle-class homes . |
| 13 | In that situation , a lack of trust in the tutors ' role was inevitable . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Because MPs enjoy such low status , because the work is so poorly paid , because the upper classes have largely abandoned ideas of ‘ service ’ , and because the selection process has killed off the old boy network , there is less and less interest in politics in the Conservatives ' traditional reservoir of support . |
| 17 | The quality of the wine selected for storage in the Dolls ' House cellar was planned with great care and knowledge . |
| 18 | This is the only plausible explanation I have found , in a lifetime spent in television , for the fact that a single programme can be simultaneously attacked from both ends of the political spectrum for bias in the opponents ' favour . |
| 19 | Nothing has been left out , from the temperature in the staff locker room ( at 16°C , 5°C less than that in the examination rooms ) to the number of changes of air per hour in the patients ' lavatories ( two ! ) . |
| 20 | The Daily Telegraph , 4 March 1979 , notes a case where transvestites who hooked dresses through letter boxes pleaded guilty to burglary in a magistrates ' court , even though no part of their bodies was through the letter boxes . |
| 21 | If you would care to lunch in the directors ' dining room , just let my secretary know . " |
| 22 | When one colony is markedly smaller than the other and so can not field an imposing team , it is raided , the queen is killed , and workers , pupae and larvae are carried off to be set to work in the victors ' nest . |
| 23 | Among the criticisms voiced , there were comments on jargon in the specifications ' language and on the need for more guidance on assessment and , especially , on merit . |
| 24 | But watching the race on TV in the jockeys ' room he still summoned the energy to cheer his erstwhile mount home . |
| 25 | Pharmaceutical group Wellcome 's report and accounts for the year ended 29 August 1992 also has a section on treasury in the directors ' review of operations and finance . |
| 26 | After light conservation work it will go on view in the Cloisters ' ‘ Treasury ’ . |
| 27 | then Redgrave jumped ship and rowed for Leander in the Stewards ' cup and won again … his 12th victory at Henley … |
| 28 | The instructor develops their compatibility and competency over four weeks at the training centre , followed by after-care in the students ' home environment . |
| 29 | A left-wing party outside government had , for some time , been calling for the workers to seize factories and , when they found themselves shut out by the closing of firms by management in the Bosses ' strike , the workers were prompted to action They seized firms and , having taken them over , set up a cordón in the area . |