Example sentences of "[det] [prep] [pron] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The tax for a property in the highest band will be about two and a half times that for one in the lowest band . |
| 2 | " Then I must have applied to half of them in the last four years . " |
| 3 | Critics of multimedia say that it is a solution looking for a problem , but during the past few years it has delivered many useful applications , some of them in the financial sector . |
| 4 | There are frequent reports , some of them in the Soviet press , of bungling and inefficiency in both exploration and production , yet expert opinion on what the Soviet oil industry can achieve has been shown over the past few years to be wildly wrong . |
| 5 | We shall look at some of them in the next chapter , but before closing this one it might be pertinent to speculate why it was in St. John 's Gospel , of all places , that we get such stress laid on the Spirit as Paraclete . |
| 6 | J.D. had told her on her last visit , when she had handed in the column she had just read , that there had been a large number of letters about Vesta 's contribution and he would be publishing some of them in the next issue . |
| 7 | The particular themes of PNP needs , curriculum , teaching strategies , home and school — remain areas of central concern , and about each of them there is now a substantial body of conceptual and empirical material to be tapped , some of it in the twelve PRINDEP reports . |
| 8 | China 's growth is fuelled largely by coal and so is India 's , some of it in the latter case thanks to World Bank funding . |
| 9 | THE CASE of World Athletics versus All Credibitity has now reached such a pitch of mealy-mouthed , farcical dithering that some of us in the public gallery are considering leaping into the well of the court and making a noisy scene . |
| 10 | ‘ He 's intending to drop in and have a social drink with a few of them in the next day or so , have lunch or dinner , participate in old boys ’ chat , that sort of thing . ’ |
| 11 | We shall consider each of them in the chronological order in which they came to Anselm 's attention . |
| 12 | Even overpraising does , at times , lead to tantrums as a child decides that your lavish praise means that you did n't expect much of him in the first place . |
| 13 | A lot has been said already in the English-speaking world about poststructuralism and politics , much of it in the accusatory mode voiced from the opposing class-based verities of ‘ tradition ’ or ‘ History ’ . |
| 14 | I have spent most of the last year in what was once Yugoslavia , much of it in the beautiful and doomed Republic of Bosnia Hercegovina and it has left me scarcely able to think , far less write about anything else . |
| 15 | If the Labour party is abdicating the right to retain foreign and defence policy in this country , it is not speaking for the country , and the Government will exploit that against it in the next general election . |
| 16 | The sheer volume of the many assessments externally required by the Act and now under design by SEAC runs the danger of forcing the less confident teachers — indeed all of them in the first instance , as they ascend the steep learning curve — into ‘ rote teaching ’ , a much more dangerous activity than rote learning because it tends to shut down that sense of intellectual curiosity without which children are not really being taught . |
| 17 | And it 's not just Cancer and Heart Disease and Child Abuse and the Homeless and the Disabled — all of them in the utmost need of support . |
| 18 | All of us in the European socialist movement in the European trades union movement insists that employees are not just units of production , but are entitled to rights at work across the European community . |
| 19 | No fewer than 39,000 members of the Merchant Service lost their lives in the Second World War , many of them in the Western Approaches , yet they are invariably overshadowed by their more glamorous allies in the Royal Navy . |
| 20 | Faced , however , with the catastrophic increase in unemployment and the need to occupy large numbers of workless people without directly employing them ( which would have run counter to the economic doctrine which had led to the redundancy of many of them in the first place ) , the Government poured money into any ‘ voluntary ’ agency willing to put in a bid for government-funded cheap labour . |
| 21 | ‘ What we found initially was that individual mussel meats were small because there were so many of them in the one place . |
| 22 | But such enthusiasts were not numerous , and there were not many of them in the papal Curia . |
| 23 | Neath were blamed and given that there were so many of them in the Welsh team it is impossible to argue against Neath , in the sense that the Neath style and philosophy were also Wales ' bearing some of the blame for the national decline . |
| 24 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 25 | Once upon a time there was a white cloud which drifted all by itself in the clear blue sky . |
| 26 | So Rosalba dipped the hook , looped the stitch , drew out the thread , and laughed all by herself in the cool dark room . |
| 27 | Those of you in the twelfth grade who are not graduating er we 'd also like you to be so come dressed nicely as well erm |
| 28 | For obvious reasons we have a close professional tie with those of you in the educational world . |
| 29 | If anyone should be boasting , it is those of us in the Labour party . |
| 30 | The only constant is change , and this is particularly true for those of us in the new emerging divisions . |