Example sentences of "[coord] [noun pl] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Deviance is behaviour which does not follow the expectations or norms of the majority in society , and it leads to a hostile and critical reaction from the majority . |
| 2 | A major problem in lexical access concerns the registration of the input descriptions , whether they be phonemes , diphones or syllables against the representations in the lexicon . |
| 3 | Larger families represent an unacceptable burden on the state or , worse still , may become enemies of society : " All intelligent Salvadoreans — men or women — ought to realize that in order to get on in life , it is better to have one well-trained child , than 5 or 10 who are a burden , or enemies of the society in which we live . |
| 4 | Concept keyboards allow areas of an overlay , which could for example be a historical map or a picture , to be touched by the pupil , calling up associated sub-screens of data or questions about the feature in question . |
| 5 | Sandwiched between the sufferers and the directors or managers of the institution in which they work ( or overwhelmed by the pressures of survival if they work on their own ) they may expect or be expected to carry and solve the burdens of both . |
| 6 | We have defined crime as an act which breaks the criminal law and deviance as behaviour which breaks or departs from the norms or standards of the majority in society . |
| 7 | " The Meeting Considering that the Island is in a backward state of Cultivation , have Resolved as an Improvement that each occupier of a 4d. land in Tillage over the whole Island shall sow in the ensuing Spring 2 pecks of Peas & Beans , and for enabling them to have proper Seed they now request that Shawfield will take the trouble of sending a Cargo of Peas & Beans to the Island in proper time … " |
| 8 | the Purchaser shall not make any claim or claims against the Vendor in respect of the breach of any of the Warranties unless the amount of each individual claim shall exceed £ ; and the aggregate amount of such claims shall exceed £ ; |
| 9 | In 864 , the Edict of Pîtres ordered that peasants who had fled because of the Vikings should not be oppressed by counts or others in the places in which they had found refuge : they were to return home to their original lordships but they should be allowed to keep their earnings from working in the vineyards ; on the other hand , if they had married and fathered offspring while resident in others ' lordships , the wives and children were to remain with those lords . |
| 10 | ( v ) gave money or goods or services to the addict in your life when you could not really afford to part with these things . |
| 11 | To simplify : it might happen that there is no significant difference in terms of one social variable ( such as class ) , but that this statistic conceals other differences or similarities within the results in terms of other social variables ( such as age or sex ) . |
| 12 | Parties in actions other than the lead actions shall be at liberty to incorporate in their pleadings such part or parts of the pleadings in the lead actions as they may wish to adopt . |
| 13 | Person deixis concerns the encoding of the role of participants in the speech event in which the utterance in question is delivered : the category first person is the grammaticalization of the speaker 's reference to himself , second person the encoding of the speaker 's reference to one or more addressees , and third person the encoding of reference to persons and entities which are neither speakers nor addressees of the utterance in question . |
| 14 | It follows that the nature of jewellery is bound to reflect in some measure the structure and activities of the society in which it was current . |
| 15 | In his books on folk life — A Wiltshire Village ( 1912 ) , Villages of the White Horse ( 1913 ) , Round about the Upper Thames ( 1922 ) , Folk-Songs of the Upper Thames ( 1923 ) , and The Banks of Isis , serialized in the North Berkshire Herald in 1925 — he left , as he had hoped to do , ‘ a permanent record of the language and activities of the district in which I find myself ’ . |
| 16 | As we have seen , it is a powerful influence on the actions and activities of the people in the organisation and will be one of the main influences on the attitude to change held by staff . |
| 17 | Selected titles in Grades 1–4 have been made up into sturdy Reader Packs , each containing a Reader , a Cassette , and Notes for the Parent/Teacher in English , Italian , Spanish , Arabic , Greek , Japanese , and Portuguese . |
| 18 | The sizes , shapes and forms of the species in this group are numerous , and their requirements and habits are as varied as their natural habitats . |
| 19 | Children learn self-restraint as part of the process by which they learn the values and attitudes of the society in which they will move . |
| 20 | Perceptions of and attitudes to the West in 19th century Bengal |
| 21 | Diarrhoea is a debilitating and potentially fatal symptom of disease characterised by a loss of fluid and ions from the body in watery stool . |
| 22 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 23 | ( b ) They are essentially personal , and although historians may try to be objective and impartial they can not free themselves entirely from their own ideas about people and the world , their personal likes and dislikes , and the assumptions and values of the age in which they live . |
| 24 | It expands and contracts with the moisture in the air . |
| 25 | ‘ He said the rent would not necessarily be raised in future after stating that it would be index-linked and he also wants to stage concerts and fetes at the ground in the close season when we would need to work on the pitch . ’ |
| 26 | Armed skirmishes took place in Dushanbe between supporters and opponents of the government in the first week of May and large demonstrations and counter-demonstrations were held , with up to 100,000 people gathering on May 5 . |
| 27 | Wishing to be faithful to the whole biblical tradition ( unlike many moderns ) , the church fathers insisted that Satan was a rebel but that he was also somehow connected to God 's purposes and plans for the world in terms of both judgment and deliverance . |
| 28 | The surface of the brain is totally insensitive , and operations on the brain in humans commonly involve only a local anaesthetic . |
| 29 | In moving homes to other management , local authorities ‘ must have full regard , particularly at the transitional stage of ownership change , to the welfare and wishes of the residents in any homes to be transferred ’ ( paragraph 4 ) . |
| 30 | A film , newsreel and illustrations of the tunnels in use bring the atmosphere of Hellfire Corner to life . |