Example sentences of "[prep] [det] [verb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Articles in journals , a chapter in books on research methods and collections of conference papers ( such as that highlighted in the last edition of Observations ) , were available , but nothing that had quite the focus and range of explaining background , methodology and queries as well as providing sufficient examples . |
| 2 | The benevolent influence of a family , such as that depicted in the first chapter of Tom Brown 's Schooldays , reached out to the tenants and other members of the local community ; the girls from the cottages came into the big house as dairy or nursery-maids ; the boys were taken on as under-gardeners or grooms . |
| 3 | Many teachers will wish to make use of a planning grid such as that suggested in the aforementioned Non-Statutory Guidance . |
| 4 | Time series such as that shown in the second column of figure 9.1 are displayed by plotting them against time , as shown in figure 9.2 . |
| 5 | Why is it much easier for a business person to start a new factory in the area shown in the upper photograph , than in many other parts of the world such as that shown in the lower photograph ? |
| 6 | I take the reasons for this to lie in the heroic myth shared by doctors and public . |
| 7 | The physiological explanation for this resides in the greater affinity of sulphate reducing bacteria for H 2 compared with methanogenic bacteria ( Ks of Desulfovibrio vulgaris , 1 µmol.1 - 1 ; Ks of Methanobrevibacter smithii , 6 µmol.l - 1 ) . |
| 8 | Moreover , the event described in the clause following because will have happened before that described in the main clause , whereas the event described in the clause following so will have happened after that described in the main clause . |
| 9 | Otherwise we , who after all live in the everyday world and not at the atomic level , would be unaware of the observation . |
| 10 | Thanks er , did the provision for er , properties like Penguin and four and a half million for the year , did all of that come in the second half , because it 's noticeable that Penguin is ahead something like what , thirty two percent , second half on second half . |
| 11 | To my mind it is clear from the terms of the third paragraph of the Crown Prosecution Service 's letter that it is accepted that the order restricts them , in any prosecution which they decide to initiate , to utilising material already obtained or other material obtained independently of that disclosed in the High Court civil proceedings . |
| 12 | Operating profit at £3.1m , was 71% of that earned in the previous year ( £4.3m ) Although any reduction in profits is regrettable , the drop was limited to 29% such that a return on sales of 7.2% was achieved , a margin which compares favourably with others in our sector . ’ |
| 13 | But there is no hope of that occurring in the foreseeable future . |
| 14 | The promised money fails to appear because , says the broker , of some failing in the would-be borrower . |
| 15 | An outstanding example of this occurs in the whole field of petrochemicals . |
| 16 | Interest in the implications of this increased in the 1960s , with the result that seismic and drilling have since demonstrated the continuation of the thrust with shallow dips well to the south of its outcrop . |
| 17 | The first instance of this came in the so-called Boxer Rebellion of 1900 . |
| 18 | The vestiges of this remain in the legal requirement that spouses should support each other financially . |
| 19 | In the 1980s , the world wood requirement was some 3000 million m 3 , of which , following earlier figures , some 47% was used as fuel ( 80% of it in the developing world ) , 43% for building and other ‘ solid wood ’ purposes ( two-thirds of this in the developed world ) and 10% for paper ( some seven-eighths of this used in the developed world ) . |
| 20 | These men supplied many of the first generation of Russian permanent representatives in western Europe : of the twelve of these accredited in the first decade of the eighteenth century five had been members of the group of students sent to Venice in 1697 . |
| 21 | Even so , very few of these perished in the exact physical and chemical conditions necessary for fossilisation . |
| 22 | Many of these occur in the Cambrian — it is as if the echinoderms tried out various designs before settling for the successful models that mostly survive today . |
| 23 | As nearly all of these occur in the 40–80 age group ( and not everyone with colorectal cancer dies of it ) the annual incidence in this group is greater than 38 per 50000 . |
| 24 | Mr Motion should be pleased enough by the compliments paid to his work , but most of these appear in the last paragraph or so as a sort of afterthought when the reviewer has finished giving his own version of the poet . |
| 25 | It does not do well in peat or sand alone , though a small quantity of these mixed in the above recommended mixture will be satisfactory . |
| 26 | ‘ In one cubic centimetre of empty space the amount of energy is much greater than the total amount of energy of all matter in the known universe . ’ |
| 27 | And too many of them are deliberate re-runs of those seen in the aforementioned film . |
| 28 | On the same day the Sri Lankan army claimed to have killed 50 guerrillas of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam ( LTTE ) , bringing to over 600 the total number of those killed in the latest military offensive under way since mid-March in the north around Mullaittivu and Mannar . |
| 29 | This is Canto 78 , another of those composed in the Pisan prison-stockade while their author awaited transportation and trial for treason . |
| 30 | The Nuremberg Trials lifted the scales from the eyes of many Germans , and later OMGUS surveys reported that only one in eight ( 12 per cent ) of those questioned in the American Zone recalled trusting Hitler as Leader up to the end of the war , while 35 per cent claimed never to have trusted him and a further ( 6 per cent to have kept faith in him only until the outbreak of war . |