Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun sg] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shell is to open up to 1,000 food shops on its garage forecourts in order to compete with the food retailers that have started selling petrol on their superstore sites . |
| 2 | The plaintiff contracted dermatitis because of excessive sulphites in underwear manufactured by the defendants . |
| 3 | Below right : Cranes in flight appear on the suite fabric |
| 4 | J. Myron Jacobstein and Meira G. Pimsleur , which covers books in English published throughout the world . |
| 5 | The abandoned vine-terraces along the inland valleys , dried grey by the sun , look like the side of an amphitheatre ; much of the local retsina you think you are drinking in the village tavernas in fact comes from the mainland . |
| 6 | The medieval fabliaux in English belong in the first instance to the context of medieval England , and are not to be seen as foreign intruders disguised in the clothing of the Middle English language . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is amazing that Sir Leon Brittan should still refer to these ‘ costs ’ long after Pöhl has said quite clearly that they are irrelevant : ‘ the repeated reference to alleged huge savings in transaction costs for the currencies of a single currency area are not in the least convincing ’ . |
| 8 | This could mean either a uniform , across-the-board depreciation of a greater depreciation against some currencies than others , i.e. some currencies in effect appreciate against the deficit country . |
| 9 | The martellato in the left-hand part of the original is provided by pizzicato violas and cellos in unison doubled by the clarinets and later by the horns . |
| 10 | These have been decorated with Celtic designs in relief made by the lost wax method but emphasized by hatching . |
| 11 | In the normal subjects ( Fig 2A ) , the APGPR concentrations in urine increased after the test meal and again two peak mean values of APGPR immunoreactivity were seen in the first and second hours at 45 and 75 minutes after the start of the meal corresponding in time with the peaks of serum APGPR found in the normal subjects . |
| 12 | This participation is demonstrated in several articles , including ‘ Combating inequality ’ on page 11 , which describes how the involvement of local communities in community mapping in the West Bank and Gaza Strip has been an essential part of the process . |
| 13 | Corporate approaches had their origins in business thinking in the United States of America , were implemented in large multinational corporations in the 1950s , and eventually found their way into public sector thinking in Britain in the late 1960s . |
| 14 | As Burton-Roberts suggests , criterion A ( the requirement that elements in apposition refer to the same entity ) would have to be extended if it is to apply to sentential and other non-nominal appositions . |
| 15 | The attack on Quine therefore has two prongs , the rejection of MP and an attempt to show that we do not need to be atomists in order to account for the possibility of language learning . |
| 16 | Now she was visible again , she 'd had to take off her shoes in order to walk on the glass floor without slipping , and she could n't feel her feet . |
| 17 | Matters in fact agreed at the winter meeting were kept secret and brought before the summer one " as if nothing had been previously worked out concerning them " . |
| 18 | When the king held court , nobles in attendance participated in the giving of judgements ; brought and received gifts ; joined royal feasts or fasts ; heard royal speeches . |
| 19 | The children in each group are shown trying to escape from their parents in order to meet at the fortress ‘ den ’ . |
| 20 | This involves the exclusion of other areas of their lives in order to concentrate on the matter in hand . |
| 21 | Are their emotions in fact dictated by the current situation , or do they display emotional reactions which are more persistent and more complex than they can articulate in words ? |
| 22 | For example , planners in China do not seem aware of the cohort structure their population might have in decades to come if the drastic reductions in fertility introduced in the 1970s are maintained for 20 or 30 years . |
| 23 | Does the Secretary of State agree that despite the tremendous advances in productivity made by the employees of British Coal , the perverse reward that the Government give them is to squeeze the British coal industry between the upper and nether millstones ? |
| 24 | There is an urgent need for research to clarify whether socio-economic differentials in ill-health persist at the level of Health Authorities , once the SMRs have been controlled . |
| 25 | He wants those years in jail allowed against the life sentence he got for the M60 machine-gun murder of SAS captain Herbert Westmascott in May , 1980 . |
| 26 | When Robson was appointed England manager in 1982 he was succeeded at Portman Road by Ferguson , whose four years in charge ended with the club 's relegation to the Second Division . |
| 27 | The defendant lived with his brother for two and a half years in property owned by the plaintiff local authority of which the brother was a secure tenant under the Housing Act 1985 . |
| 28 | To this end , a deep trench had been begun long ago : deep enough to bring a file of men and their weapons in safety close under the walls . |
| 29 | Day Two saw 7 multi-disciplinary teams in action headed by the tenants with the dampness group on standby to offer advice and practical assistance . |
| 30 | Another area which can pose problems in translation relates to the ability to determine when and when not a certain item of information can be treated as given . |