Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [conj] [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In chains and at the mercy of that detestable man !
2 For all her strange behaviour in rehearsals and in the office , she had held her position as director for eleven years and during that time the Tiller troupes still commanded the highest respect and dominated all other dance troupes .
3 But the end of the Iran-Iraq war led to a precipitous decline in exports and to the bankruptcy of two major firms : Avibras and Engesa .
4 He has won numerous scholarships and prizes and has performed in recitals and as an accompanist throughout England and in several Continental countries .
5 And we can join together in groups and as a society to treat other people or other groups very badly indeed .
6 The conventional form is generally convenient ; it is useful to have equal eigenvalues in groups and to the use superdiagonal ; but in particular cases it may be well to use a nonzero quantity other than a unit in the superdiagonal .
7 it has a higher prevalence in cities than in the country , despite the fact that pollen levels are lower in built-up areas .
8 This tree consists only of words that partake in compounds and at the leaf nodes are the indices relating to the disk address of the lexical information .
9 Carrie said , ‘ He sells saccharines in packets because of the sugar ration .
10 Certain differences occur both in words and in the order of events :
11 It is much harder to argue for an unclear and complicated arrangement for arriving at what is taught in schools than for the logic of a national curriculum .
12 ‘ You see you have to have a situation in schools where in the end teachers — and this gentleman is a visiting teacher — can give reasonable orders to people just as you do in a home .
13 However , doing some voluntary work in schools and on a holiday camp for the under privileged convinced her that she really wanted to carry on working with children .
14 This course is unique in providing vocational training suitable for specialist physical education posts in schools and for a range of professional roles in the leisure industry .
15 Set backs to chemistry in schools and in the public 's esteem have become regular news — so at least reward my carpentry by reading on !
16 The spadefish swim faster in schools because of a slime given off by the swimming fish .
17 Sir Lionel Russell , with a view from within the CNAA and the local authorities , said that he had never understood Crosland 's Woolwich speech and why he made it , and had doubts about the concentration in polytechnics because of the disappointment it meant to other colleges .
18 Those involved were given a basic introduction to the causes of deterioration in books and to the terminology used in their description .
19 What is important is that ( a ) large numbers of people are involved ; ( b ) some of them are at a greater risk than the general population due to pre-existing cardiac or respiratory conditions and/or prolonged exposure in homes or at the workplace ; and ( c ) there is no ‘ safe ’ level of exposure to carcinogens .
20 They vary in characteristics and in the amount of responsibility they require .
21 Speech is involved both in the genesis and maintenance of the social world in action-sequences and in the correction and interpretation of that world in accounts , the speech in which we discourse about the action .
22 Money can be defined as any asset that is generally acceptable in transactions and in the settlement of debts .
23 Every spring the village looks very pretty , the aconites , snowdrops and crocuses flower in abundance in gardens and on the grass verges .
24 He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl .
25 This had forced the tubes inwards in places and as the head studs were dowelled at certain points along their length these areas would not pass through the constricted sections .
26 The path was narrow and winding , barely visible in places because of the mud and wild grasses , but the two children had no difficulty in following it .
27 That 's very effective if you 're dealing with factual information which is changing fairly rapidly , and I think we 'll see quite a growth of that in the next few years , but libraries are n't just stores of factual information ; they store a large number of books and articles and they need access to that too , and probably the most typical external use of a computer in libraries and in a university library , academic library , these days is to access the huge stores of information on scientific publishing .
28 He could not have milked a cow , and he poked pigs much more often in cartoons than in the farmyard .
29 Those above that size grew faster in shelter , and they all grew faster in aquaria than on the shore .
30 The actor William Squire , who worked with him often in films and on the stage , speaks of his ‘ lack of craft , his lack of tricks and knowledge of the trade .
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