Example sentences of "in [noun] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Median bicarbonate concentration in saliva determined by the former method was 28.1 mm/l ( 95% CI 19.79–38.74 ) compared with 14.74 mmol/l alkali in saliva determined by back titration ( 95% CI , 12.95–16.69 ) — that is , a 90% overestimation ( p= 0.003 ) .
2 which can be thought of as a temporary , unexpected rise or fall in income ( for example , an unexpected increase in income resulting from a win at the races , or a temporary fall in income resulting from a short period of unemployment ) .
3 Looking out , she saw men in suits getting into the medium-sized cars .
4 Members of Halton Friends of the Earth have been urging people in Runcorn to call for a public inquiry into ICI 's plan for an incinerator there .
5 Actual details are vague , but John claims that whereas every other pickup in existence suffers from a muddy , limited response , his design ( available fitted to any guitar , single-coil or humbucking , at a cost of £150 ) gives the first genuinely ‘ full range ’ sound .
6 As Sam Somerville took off from Heathrow , Dr Barnard was sitting in his laboratory in Fulham staring at a small collection of pieces of debris spread on a crisp white sheet of paper across a table-top .
7 I asked at the meeting of the city board and I asked on more than one occasion , and did n't get a proper answer , what the labour group intended to do with the three point two million pounds that will build up in reserve say for the next three years .
8 Is the Minister aware that now that clear decisions have been taken on trust status , anxiety in Sheffield relates to the likely impact of the Chancellor 's autumn statement on the health authority 's financial position next year and in the long term , and particularly the need for greater per capita funding given the number of elderly people and the levels of health inequality and social deprivation in Sheffield , particularly in Attercliffe ?
9 He plans to stay in Sheffield to compete on the first day of the UK Championships today then concentrate on training , his Olympic place assured without having to jump in the trials in Birmingham on June 27–28 , in which he 'll confine himself to an outing in the 100 metres .
10 The scheme , unlike that of Germany , was ‘ fully-funded ’ , i.e. contributions were not as in Germany calculated on an annual basis to cover outgoings in each year , but supposedly accumulated at interest to pay the full cost of an individual 's benefit , as in commercial insurance .
11 US troops in Panama remain on the highest state of alert .
12 The 12,000 American troops in Panama remained on the highest state of alert and largely confined to their bases .
13 Indian groups marched in their thousands in Guatemala , blocked roads in Ecuador , occupied the main square in Mexico City , in Panama marched on the national palace in Panama City , and burned US and Spanish flags in San José , Costa Rica .
14 Gavin Drewry 's analysis of the grant and refusal of leave to appeal to the House of Lords in 1971 demonstrated that leave was routinely refused in cases where the second appeal raised issues of review , that leave was granted in cases involving issues of supervision , and that there was a mixture of refusals and grants in cases falling in the grey area of reconsideration of authority without critical re-appraisal of the cases ( Drewry , 1973 ) .
15 The Birmingham Six case was the latest in a series where convictions had been overturned in cases arising from the Irish Republican Army 's 1974 public house bombings in England , the " Guildford Four " having been freed in October 1989 [ see p. 36983 ] and the " Maguire seven " in June 1990 [ see p. 37536 ] .
16 The IPG also had to provide information to help bureaux cope with the transitional payments periods and appeals already in progress based on the previous regulations .
17 Increased consumption of fossil fuels was in part caused by a 6 per cent reduction in electricity generated from nuclear power , due to a decline in imports of nuclear electricity from France and the prolonged shutdown of several nuclear power stations for maintenance .
18 The damage is in part caused by the increasing incidence of road edges being dug up for laying pipes , cables and power lines .
19 They assume that there is a trade-off between labour-augmenting and capital-augmenting technical progress , and that firms maximize the instantaneous rate of unit cost reduction ( i.e. firms are myopic , or are able to appropriate returns for only one instant ) This ‘ innovation possibility frontier ’ captures the notion of choice but leaves open a number of questions , notably the determination of its shape and location , which must in part result from the deliberate allocation of resources to research and development .
20 It therefore appears that the weak bleomycin cleaage of this central GA step is at least in part determined by the low affinity of the antibiotic .
21 Equally depression of prostaglandin synthesis , by diminishing pain perception , could at least in part account for the high proportion of NSAID associated ulcers that are silent .
22 We may assume , however , that he will have a better understanding of the purpose of the author in constructing the text in the way it is constructed if he knows that it is written in the late nineteenth century ( which will account for some differences in code , in Hymes ' terms ) in Victorian England ( which will account for the reference to a Reformatory ) and that the author is constructing the first English detective story , narrating the events from the point of view of four different participants , whose characters are in part revealed by the narrative style which the author assigns to them .
23 The conciliatory approach of the Ramos administration was in part based on the pragmatic need to increase political stability in order to bolster investor confidence .
24 They are in part based upon the statistical techniques described above , but use whatever mathematical form of extrapolation ( forward projection ) that the forecaster considers will be most valid in achieving a prediction .
25 Without Einstein 's insight , in part inspired by the trivial' matter of Mercury 's orbit , our knowledge of science , not to mention our technology , would be at a much lower level than it is today .
26 Confusion over whether some sentences like the following are tenseless or " eternal " in part stems from a deep equivocation over the term tense .
27 Some of these are essentially historical : the interest developed in part as a reaction or antidote to Chomsky 's treatment of language as an abstract device , or mental ability , dissociable from the uses , users and functions of language ( an abstraction that Chomsky in part drew from the post-Bloomfieldian structuralism that predominated immediately before transformational generative grammar ) .
28 A further problem of ageing , which in part follows from a greater life expectancy , relates to retirement .
29 As we saw , permissive trends in today 's culture are in part derived from a one-sided and shallow apprehension of Freudian ideas ; but in my view the situation has not been improved by one major distortion of Freud 's thinking of which many analysts and nearly all writers in the social sciences who have used psychoanalytic ideas have been guilty .
30 We aim to show in Chapter 5 that this blindness was in part promoted by the religious elements in their beliefs .
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