Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The arrangement of the oceans in relation to the continents plays a decisive role in creating and sustaining life on Earth . |
| 2 | Before I leave , I stop by Contracts to sprinkle a little salt in the wounds of deskbound Nick Thumb by describing ( almost ) all the fun of the Fair . |
| 3 | Rather than supporting the status quo , the way things are , utopian ideologies advocate a complete change in the structure of society . |
| 4 | Dealing between GEMMs plays an important part in the maintenance of an efficient and liquid market . |
| 5 | On the economic front , the latest Dun and Bradstreet survey of UK business , carried out before last week 's increase in interest rates to 15 per cent , warned that the British economy was on the brink of a ‘ major slowdown ’ as high-interest policies produced a dramatic downturn in confidence . |
| 6 | This change in attitudes plays a crucial part in the development of a drawbridge mentality , which is replacing the more collective outlook of previous decades . |
| 7 | American courts have devised strategies to preserve a wide discretion in the President when concluding treaties . |
| 8 | It is also the final of the Marley National Pony Society Mountain and Moorland Ridden Championships , and thirty quality native ponies made a splendid sight in the vast Grand Hall . |
| 9 | Hobeika and Jamei ( 1985 ) describe the MASSeVACuation ( MASSVAC ) simulation software designed to analyse and evaluate traffic evacuation plans given a natural disaster in an urban area . |
| 10 | A strike by machinists at Boeing Co. in October 1989 [ see below ] and the resultant decline in exports produced an increased deficit in November , but the end of the strike in November and the resumption of the export sale of aircraft , coupled with a fall in oil imports , produced a deficit in December of only $7,200 million , the lowest in five years . |
| 11 | The formulation and implementation of pilot , demonstration and otherwise innovative projects plays a crucial role in unlocking and mobilising the full potential of Glasgow 's assets . |
| 12 | People felt that suburbs or semi-rural estates provide a better environment in which children could be brought up . |
| 13 | Some explanation is perhaps needed for the fact that the same phrases also sound more normal in ( 18 ) than the corresponding phrases in ( 15 ) : ( 18 ) the heir is a lawful one her cousin is a distant one Possibly we should accept that , even when used in a context of heirs and cousins respectively , these two adjectives occupy an intermediate position in the sense that they can be construed either way without any significant difference in the non-linguistic phenomena that can be designated thereby . |
| 14 | When the old house was practically uninhabitable , they or their sons built a new farmstead in the midst of their own fields and migrated from the village . |
| 15 | Beetles undergo a complete metamorphosis in their life cycle : the eggs hatch out into a variety of larval forms which only faintly resemble the adults , both morphologically and physiologically . |
| 16 | Indeed , he regretted bitterly that his attempts to establish a sixth form in the school had been so abortive . |
| 17 | Attempts to establish a British colony in Virginia had been made by Sir Walter Raleigh in the 1580s . |
| 18 | Where the home environment seems to be unsupportive in as much as it is highly arousing , strategies to increase the social distance in key relationships , or to modify their ways of interacting , would be helpful . |
| 19 | Dickinson , a cautious man , advocated limited innovations — in particular an agreement among states to observe a cooling-off period in international disputes , during which mediation could proceed and public opinion could mobilize against war . |
| 20 | For the fourth day the Soviet Prime Minister Nikolai Ryskov , was still pressing deputies to accept a huge increase in prices as a painful first step . |
| 21 | The researchers found a wide variation in " Patois competence " , with scores ranging from 8 to 20 ( p. 96 ) . |
| 22 | Guest houses reported a sharp drop in visitors on the popular route following the attack . |
| 23 | Further to our meeting earlier this week , I am writing to you to outline how KPMG Peat Marwick ( ‘ KPMG ’ ) may assist you with your plans to establish a significant presence in Europe in [ ] services . |
| 24 | Moore says that all these activities provide a better climate in which new technologies will grow . |
| 25 | If , however , the Germans maintained a defensive stance in the east while attacking France , both army groups were to advance immediately — the northern group into East Prussia , the southern group into Galicia , where the Austro-Hungarian army was strongest . |
| 26 | The agency has plans to launch a second craft in April 1994 , at about the time that the first satellite reaches the end of its operational life . |
| 27 | They sleep during the day , and you will sometimes see flocks of little birds mobbing a sleeping owl in broad daylight . |
| 28 | You will have seen how alarmed we are by the plans to meet a vast increase in aggregates demand . |
| 29 | You will have seen how alarmed we are by the plans to meet a vast increase in aggregates demand . |
| 30 | While she , Paige , had to duck and dive , in fruitless attempts to shake a limpet-like pursuit in order to keep up the chase . |