Example sentences of "in [adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have lived in a wonderful variety of houses , including one normally occupied by a pit deputy in South Yorkshire ; a leaking gothic horror of a Victorian rectory in deepest Sussex that was literally falling to pieces while administrative matters blocked efforts to replace it and our present one near Lewes built in 1934 in the days of live-in maids , recently modernised but still half as big again as any built these days and with a double-size garden . |
| 2 | This Thursday the socialites — and socialists — will look in vain for the rivers of champagne and dancing until dawn of other election nights . |
| 3 | People have looked with interest but in vain at the cores of quasars , but they are certainly not white holes . |
| 4 | As I said at the beginning , the National Health Services was born in 1948 through the efforts of the Labour Party , the first comprehensive free health service in the world . |
| 5 | In each of the corners of the civilised world , men and women pondered the flawed and tragic conditions of human life and attempted to find solutions that would enable them to survive the suffering that flesh is heir to . |
| 6 | That is , there is that which is common , or of one kind , in each of the experiences of feeling a sensation , being depressed , thinking a question , taking a decision , and so on . |
| 7 | In each of the areas of major concern for the NVALA , there appeared to them to be influential individuals whose determination to ‘ push back the frontiers of permissiveness ’ was seen as the greatest threat to traditional Christian morality . |
| 8 | This team will include specialists in each of the areas of study of the diploma programme . |
| 9 | Rolls-Royce collapsed in 1971 under the strains of developing the RB211 aero engine , and was nationalised by Edward Heath 's Conservative government , unwilling to see such an important part of British industry going bankrupt . |
| 10 | This was opened in 1986 under the auspices of the Drugs Council and a local housing trust . |
| 11 | In a final statement issued at the close of the talks the group agreed to conduct an " urgent review " of the member countries ' negotiating positions towards finding greater flexibility and facilitating a breakthrough at the deadlocked " Uruguay Round " of global trade talks launched in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade ( GATT ) [ see pp. 37227-28 for most recent developments in Uruguay Round negotiations ] . |
| 12 | Nicholson writes in 1861 in the Annals of Kendal of ‘ hosiers attending Markets to collect stockings and give out worsted . ’ |
| 13 | For example , the " going rate " in 1980 for the chairmen of the major industries ( gas , aerospace , shipbuilding , railways , coal , etc. ) was £48,000 , at a time when the top executives of BP , ICI and the like were earning between two and three times that amount , including bonuses but without accounting for various fringe benefits . |
| 14 | Stratford , a royal diplomat , had been provided to Winchester in 1323 against the wishes of the king and paid a heavy penalty for it : his temporalities were seized and exploited for a year , and even after they were restored Stratford was placed under recognizances of £10,000 to the king ( £2000 down and the rest conditional upon his good conduct ) , £1000 to the Despensers , and 1000 marks to the chancellor , Robert Baldock , a clerk for whom Edward had intended the bishopric ; moreover , Stratford was summoned to answer in the King 's Bench for his conduct of a royal mission to the papacy . |
| 15 | The first really large wave of Jewish immigrants had been in 1881 with the pogroms of Alexander III in Russia . |
| 16 | In one case to a small village in Leicestershire , in another to the outskirts of Peterborough , ’ said Mr Goldring . |
| 17 | The following day we explored Bragança 's castle , which is superbly preserved and houses a military museum , showing Portugal 's colonial past and the role played in this by the menfolk of Bragança . |
| 18 | The church was built in 1876 to the designs of Henry Woodyer ( 1816–96 ) , an accomplished church architect who designed many ecclesiastical buildings , a large number of which are located in Surrey . |
| 19 | Socially and psychologically women are brought up to care for relationships , to care for people , they want to do it well , where it goes wrong they tend to blame themselves , but equally we have eminent members of the judiciary who in the past have commented in some of the cases of severe assaults on women , the kind of er quote that you were making |
| 20 | Nevertheless , Clinton 's dignified television performance ( seen by an estimated 40 per cent of the electorate ) , together with inconsistencies in some of the claims of Flowers , and the withdrawal of the Nichols lawsuit , appeared to have rescued the Governor 's campaign from the point of destruction . |
| 21 | The comparatively recent date at which water flowed in these wadis is attested by the presence in some of the oases of fish from tropical Africa , while Pleistocene beds in the Atlas have a fauna which has been called a Zambezi fauna . |
| 22 | Given the lack of precision , it would not be too far fetched to claim that there is an element of post hoc rationalization in some of the definitions of the public service broadcasting notion . |
| 23 | None the less , it is clear that research in the polytechnics will continue to grow , if only for reasons of prestige , and the same trend is discernible in some of the colleges of higher education . |
| 24 | But more surprisingly , there is little sign of the positive family traditions which were so striking in some of the autobiographies of the wealthy . |
| 25 | The practical interconnection between gender , ethnicity and class can be seen in some of the ethnographies of women 's lives that have been recently produced . |
| 26 | Having said that , in some of the bits of Shoreditch I passed through I stuck out like a sore thumb . |
| 27 | Such measurements are very useful in indicating the trajectories of certain features ( ‘ eddies ' , Section 19.6 ) associated with the turbulence , and have played an important role in some of the descriptions of the motion to be mentioned in Sections 21.4 and 21.6 . |
| 28 | Serious opposition to the new emperor had also begun to emerge in some of the towns of north Italy , especially Cremona . |
| 29 | In some of the streets of St Ann 's nothing is personal unless it is whispered . |
| 30 | The destruction area , spread across five miles , taking in some of the suburbs of Chicago itself . |