Example sentences of "in [noun] [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Range Rover left it behind quickly on a steep road which wound up in hairpin bends for a mile before levelling out on the road to Haverfordwest . |
| 2 | How effective any given synapse is at influencing the postsynaptic neuron in firing depends on a number of factors — how close it is to the cell body , whether it is on the shaft of a dendrite or on one of the many spines , and so forth . |
| 3 | It is suggested that the way women and black citizens are treated in society and in schools provides for a unity among female students on the one hand and black students on the other . |
| 4 | Brazil 's faith in debt/equity swaps as a means of easing the burden has been shared by many . |
| 5 | Each spurt in investment has for a time been halfway successful in boosting harvests and production , but policy to date has failed to grasp the nettles of productivity , variety , distribution and responsible land use . |
| 6 | Furthermore , the change in speed occurs within a couple of trials of changing the magnitude of reward , which is too fast for conventional learning mechanisms . |
| 7 | Indeed the Court of Appeal in Phekoo expressed the opinion that it only applied to rape but I hope that one might interpret that to mean ‘ rape-like offences ’ , that is all offences where the mistake in question relates to a circumstance qualified by mens rea . |
| 8 | Growth in nature starts from a seed and flowers into a variety of forms . |
| 9 | For instance , most of the press was more interested in video nasties as a cause of rape than in deeper structural explanations . |
| 10 | Siegel ( 1972 ) reports that pre-exposure to a tone in rabbits leads to a loss of the OR ( evident as a decline in the likelihood of occurrence of an eye-opening response evoked by the novel tone ) but the latent inhibition that was also found can not be directly attributed to the loss of this aspect of the OR . |
| 11 | She saw an old French dresser with faded photographs in gilt frames under a bed of cobweb . |
| 12 | At least one narrow-gauge railway in Britain operates on a gauge of 10.5 in , and there may well be others . |
| 13 | The third object in space consists of a metal armchair designed by Mark Cousins yet as distorted as anything by Gaudi . |
| 14 | However , the fundamental reason for rejecting the weapons in Britain or elsewhere in Europe lies in a flaw at the heart of NATO 's deterrent strategy . |
| 15 | For Marx , the further development of this form of division of labour in society appears as a prerequisite of the division of labour within the enterprise under capitalism : |
| 16 | The strong recovery in manufacturing comes at a time when it appears to have stalled in the rest of the UK . |
| 17 | The answer to the first question involves an analysis of speciation , which in turn leads to a consideration of the ecological conditions under which such speciation might have taken place , and the answer to the second also involves an analysis of the physical and biotic influences on the organisms concerned . |
| 18 | In this way research can be seen as a continuing dialectical process : actuality is formulated as an abstraction which in turn leads to a reformulation of actuality . |
| 19 | This in turn leads to a reaction on the part of the deviants which usually involves an increase in the frequency or intensity of the deviant acts . |
| 20 | Many public sector agencies are hierarchical in form with each ‘ front-line ’ worker being responsible to a supervisor , who in turn reports to a superior , and so on . |
| 21 | The fall in k leads to a rise in the gross return to capital and a fall in the wage ; to this extent the tax is ‘ shifted ’ . |
| 22 | Properly speaking , therefore , the new narrative pre-dates the so-called ‘ boom ’ , a term which is sometimes erroneously used as a synonym but which in fact refers to a process which took place in the 1960s and continued into the 1970s , when Spanish-American fiction won increasing recognition outside Latin America itself and achieved unprecedented commercial success . |
| 23 | ( Molten nylon held under pressure in an atmosphere of steam in fact depolymerizes in a reversal of this condensation reaction . ) |
| 24 | Many people have viewed and bought a house in a quiet lane during the summer , only to find , in October , that the lovely field behind the house in fact belongs to a school and is filled with playing children for most of the year . |
| 25 | It is equally difficult to deny that the radioactive fall-out from a nuclear explosion in fact consists of a cloud of poisonous gases . |
| 26 | The term , long term strategy in fact appears in a number of instances erm throughout those pages . |
| 27 | A Charge Code in LIFESPAN corresponds to a directory in VMS . |
| 28 | A Charge Code in LIFESPAN corresponds to a directory in VMS . |
| 29 | For example , if the car in front goes under a bridge it should take you two seconds to reach that point . |