Example sentences of "in [noun] [conj] [noun] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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1 | According to a recent report from the market research company Mintel , customer perceptions of quality in products and service have more to do with their expectation that companies should get it right first time than with the belief that they should provide a safety net to protect consumers once things have gone wrong . |
2 | Casein became a recognized adhesive in aircraft and yacht work some time around 1930 . |
3 | To speak English verse is the sign of a minimum control over reason and grammar , so that , for similarly mimetic reasons , in Shakespeare drunks do not speak verse ( the barge-scene in Antony and Cleopatra shows some famous men teetering on the verge of prose , and indeed relapsing into it ) , nor do foreigners , nor those with strong British regional accents . |
4 | The figure of 49% would have been much higher but for the fact that only one in ten of farmers in Powys and Speyside saw this as a constraint on their future development . |
5 | The singer 's life contained enough misbehaviour to make director Oliver Stone 's job easy ( pace that notorious gig in Miami when Jimbo bared more than his soul ) ; his songs are riddled with references to drugs and sex ; and — making the film a dead cert — he obligingly took an early bath in Paris in '71 . |
6 | The work was fast and furious ; working up in the top of buildings in January and February made this easy . |
7 | Arab public opinion , however , is not considered in Washington or London to have any role to play . |
8 | About 160 people in England and Wales die each year from liver failure after an overdose of paracetamol , although this official figure may underestimate the true annual mortality as many cases of liver failure may not be attributed to a suicidal overdose to alleviate bereaved relatives ' distress . |
9 | Recent research by GALOP ( the Gay London Policing Group ) , Him magazine , Capital Gay and Gay Times shows that in 1989 , police in England and Wales arrested more men for consensual sex ( 'indecency between males ' ) than in any other year this century save for 1954 and 1955 . |
10 | There is some evidence that the history of policing in England and Wales contains much more resort to the stick and fist than is recognized in the orthodox accounts . |
11 | It should perhaps come as no surprise that the Assessment of Performance Unit ( APU ) in England and Wales has some of the characteristics of the National Assessment of Educational Progress ( NAEP ) in the US ; or that new moves in the UK to establish procedures to make incompetent teachers liable to sanctions ( reported in the Times Educational Supplement . |
12 | The latter showed severe reading and writing difficulties in Kana but Kanji presented less of a problem ( Yamadori , 1975 ) . |
13 | He does n't show much interest in Arthur because Arthur cries all the time . |
14 | On the subject of making up his mind or the minds of parties in Scotland , can the Secretary of State say whether the Conservative candidate in Kincardine and Deeside supports that aspect of Conservative party policy ? |
15 | Plants in pots and containers require more water than you actually might think , the smaller the pot the more critical the problem . |
16 | International : Third ceasefire in Bosnia as troops seize more towns |
17 | Last year 's Welsh Office waiting list initiative offering particular operations at certain centres was not a great success in Clwyd when patients showed little enthusiasm to travel to South Wales or Bangor for hip , knee and eye operations . |
18 | Wire brushes : More common in engineering and building trades these brushes , nevertheless , have applications in the food industries particularly for heavy cleaning . |
19 | TIME is standing still in Downpatrick after workmen removed all the clock faces from the town 's Assembly Hall timepiece . |
20 | Chinese envoys in Europe and America did little negotiating : they were concerned mainly with the protection of Chinese abroad and with the collection of information and the purchase of guns , ships and machinery for their government . |
21 | Sentries in all the major towns now kept watch for suspicious-looking strangers , checkpoints were mounted at crossroads and a round-up of suspect gentry in Cumberland and Westmorland left many whose loyalty was doubtful safely lodged in Carlisle Castle . |
22 | and it also depends what 's in Ecstasy cos people put all sorts of shit into Ecstasy nowadays , you know , they just , you know there 's like R Rataseed and y you know , stuff that you put on the lawn and , you know cos it , it 's cheap is n't it ? |
23 | The eighteenth-century revolutionaries in America and France coined some splendid slogans about " government by the people for the people " , " no taxation without representation " , " one man ; one vote " and so on , but after some disastrous preliminary experiments with mob rule , they quickly settled for compromise ; only the existing owners of property should be qualified to vote ! |
24 | Involving all relevant functions in discussion and decision lays many misconceptions to rest at all levels and generates a helpful commitment to the system . |
25 | Further , the expanding provision by LEAs of vocational and recreational classes in rural schools and at urban technical colleges siphoned-off potential WEA students , although the long tradition and attractiveness of the WEA programmes in Norwich and Cambridge enabled both cities to withstand the counter-attractions . |
26 | Only the derby matches in Edinburgh and Glasgow attracted more spectators in Scotland on Saturday . |
27 | Such travellers inevitably brought home souvenirs , many of which were antiquities , and the sight of the classical remains in Greece and Italy prompted some travellers to investigate the history of their own countries . |
28 | Spencer Stuart 's business in London and Manchester owes much of its success to its Britishness , to the fact that its consultants are at home in even the most conservative Boardrooms ; the firm works in direct contrast to the style apparently adopted by Korn/Ferry , for instance . |
29 | " All three locks were in order when Blakelock arrived this morning . |
30 | In fact when God created this world he is described as working ( Gen. 2:13 ) , and frequently the world is said to be the work of his hands . |