Example sentences of "in [noun pl] [subord] [prep] the [noun sg] " 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 | Carrie said , ‘ He sells saccharines in packets because of the sugar ration . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He could not have milked a cow , and he poked pigs much more often in cartoons than in the farmyard . |
| 9 | Those above that size grew faster in shelter , and they all grew faster in aquaria than on the shore . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The 1851 census revealed that in Britain for the first time more people lived in towns than in the country and that trend continued . |
| 14 | 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 . |