Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] [adj] [noun pl] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became possible to control , if not cure , the symptoms of many psychiatric disorders by the use of drugs , and therefore it was possible to discharge patients after fairly short stays in hospital , continuing their drug therapy , in many cases , as out-patients . |
| 2 | The invisibility of women in the sociology of work is guaranteed by the choice of predominantly masculine jobs in research design . |
| 3 | It certainly seems to escape the circularity inherent in a Kantian attempt to link the particularity of entities with the numerical identity of the places that such entities occupy in a general spatio-temporal framework , which only leads to the problem of having to presuppose the existence of numerically identical entities in order to be able to refer to identical places . |
| 4 | Combining with other interests of broadly similar aims in affiliation to , or support of , a political party significantly strengthens the political clout of a particular group . |
| 5 | It is a tactical device for breaking down any one market into a number of separately identifiable sub-markets in order to be able to reach that sub-market ( or segment ) with a particular marketing mix . |
| 6 | Venture capitalists thus seem to be moving away from riskier start-ups and towards more established companies in buy-out situations . |
| 7 | This proved to be far in excess of the minimum required for immunity , and although the researchers can not be certain of directly comparable results in man , the prospects seem reasonably good . |
| 8 | This statement directs the user to adopt a number of more specific terms in preference to the general term . |
| 9 | It saw little more than arguments over who had done most to break the 1975 Final Act ; but the fact that it continued to meet held out the hope of more fruitful conversations in future . |
| 10 | I can think of more upsetting things in life . ’ |
| 11 | The presence of hypoxaemia is predictive of short term mortality , indicating that the detection and treatment of hypoxaemia may be a crucial part of clinical management of severely ill children in hospital . |
| 12 | It should be noted that there are a number of morphologically irregular words in English which will require explicit statement in the lexicon ( e.g. children instead of childs , caught instead of catched ) . |
| 13 | Eurobankers are beginning to be chary of lending to the nationalized industries and state authorities of even big countries in balance of payments deficits . |
| 14 | Probably no other mountains in Britain have such extensive scope for a natural arrangement of marvellously assorted shapes in breadth as well as depth . |
| 15 | The same muddle is evident in Mathematics , 510 , whose arrangement is practically meaningless to modern mathematicians , and in the artificial separation of closely related topics in physics , mathematics , chemistry and biology , which these days are regarded as interdisciplinary whole subject areas of their own , relating tangentially rather than uni-dimensionally to the general scheme . |
| 16 | But the thrust of these essays is not so special , nor so self-serving ; those who nowadays gird at ‘ the canon ’ , as an array of allegedly classic masterpieces in literature , their classic status imposed as an instrument of cultural oppression , need to take account of how in these essays Pound challenged the canon , requiring that it be revised . |
| 17 | ‘ We 've seen quite a lot of completely sterile ears in winter barley , which is due to frost on secondary tillers . |
| 18 | So , underlying this chapter is a theory of ageing based not on the analysis of biologically determined differences in senescence or individual adjustments to the ageing process but , instead , on the social creation of dependent status and on the structural relationships between older people and younger adults and between different groups of older people , especially men and women . |
| 19 | The seminars also address some of the ethical issues surrounding investigations of politically sensitive issues in education . |
| 20 | More needs to be known about what becomes of the babies of very young mothers in care themselves . |
| 21 | Irritated , she looked away and was about to tackle him about the apartment when her eyes fell on a party of very young children in fairy-tale costumes being shepherded past Quadri 's caffè by doting parents and grandparents . |
| 22 | Particular worries have been expressed about the increasing numbers of very frail individuals in need of constant attention and of those suffering from Alzheimer 's disease and other forms of senile dementia for which there are as yet no known cures . |
| 23 | In spite of very real gains in knowledge , there is a long way to go before we can fully understand why one person is more likely to become mentally ill than another . |
| 24 | The second major respect in which the assertion of the social rights of citizens has become more important is that it expresses the claims of very diverse groups in society to equal treatment , and at the same time broadens considerably the range of what are to be regarded as social rights . |
| 25 | Already there are indications from the Oban area of extraordinarily high losses in hill flocks , with many sheep having been drowned in the floods of late January and early February , but that may be nothing compared with what is in store , according to Mr Grant . |
| 26 | The conclusions drawn on the sensitivity of the enzymes towards different structural changes in the tRNA is presumably valid also in the homologous situation and opens the possibility for more specific tests in yeast , for which no complete system yet is available . |
| 27 | The capital structure is simple , with only ordinary shares in issue . |
| 28 | He stood back as the visitors moved among the men , speaking to them where possible , usually meeting with only perfunctory grunts in answer to their questions . |
| 29 | Depth relates to the ability to absorb large buy and sell orders with only small movements in price , i.e. for share prices to fluctuate only marginally as a result of large trades . |
| 30 | She says she believes women can support each other equally strongly , with more positive aims in mind ; ‘ Women do unite together on projects and support each other — the fact that feminism survives , and the existence of projects like Spare Rib , show how well women work together . ’ |