Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [subord] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | it has a higher prevalence in cities than in the country , despite the fact that pollen levels are lower in built-up areas . |
2 | Peter Beneventanus Collivaccinus ' Collection , known as the Compilatio Tertia , was both approved and commended by the pope to the masters and scholars of Bologna for use " as much in judgments as in the schools " . |
3 | Carrie said , ‘ He sells saccharines in packets because of the sugar ration . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Expertise in such matters is as likely to be found in schools as in the LEA ; but in any event good practice is defined and achieved dialectically and empirically , not by decree . |
6 | ‘ 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 . |
7 | The spadefish swim faster in schools because of a slime given off by the swimming fish . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | For the first two years , however , this strategy lay in ruins because of the consequences of accepting the ‘ catching-up ’ comparability awards of the Clegg Commission for public-sector pay . |
10 | He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | He could not have milked a cow , and he poked pigs much more often in cartoons than in the farmyard . |
13 | Those above that size grew faster in shelter , and they all grew faster in aquaria than on the shore . |
14 | Teague , who 's thirty-two and a self-employed builder , claims to have lost five thousand pounds in earnings because of the injuries . |
15 | Module images are produced in pages as in a computer listing , but are ordered and displayed differently according to the media type chosen , and the settings in the configuration file , as described later . |
16 | Like transitional relief which it has replaced , the reduction scheme is intended to help people who have faced high increases in charges because of the introduction of the community charge . |
17 | It showed not only that there was no correlation between expenditure and results but that the rather ridiculous pursuit of ideology involving child-centred education led to a reduction in standards because of the pressure on teachers . |
18 | Capital development was a dominant feature in budgets because of the assumption that , for example , in the case of a swimming pool , the revenue expenditure would be available in future years to heat and staff the pool . |
19 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
20 | Half a century later the 1851 census provided clear evidence that an historic turning point had been reached ; the returns showed that for the first time more people lived in towns than in the countryside . |