Example sentences of "in [num] [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrow parliamentary majority won by the ruling Spanish Socialist Workers ' Party ( PSOE ) in the Oct. 29 general election remained in jeopardy , following a Constitutional Court ruling on Feb. 15 which confirmed the election results in eight of the nine seats still at issue in the south-eastern constituency of Murcia , but " suspended " the results regarding the ninth seat pending fresh elections in two polling areas . |
| 2 | In eight of the 11 patients , full thickness intestinal biopsy specimens were available for histological examination . |
| 3 | Barber may best be remembered as a founder member in 1948 of the Fine Chemicals Group of the Society of Chemical Industry , and later as its chairman . |
| 4 | He made a deal in 1948 with the communist authorities that , if he could get passports for himself and his entire family to leave the country , he would make over his lands to the state . |
| 5 | These snapshots , never previously exhibited , cover the period from Big Shot in 1971 until the final months of his life . |
| 6 | It is also apparent that the cities have suffered as a result of the abolition in 1986 of the metropolitan counties and the Greater London Council . |
| 7 | ‘ The debt burden which resulted in a net transfer of over US$30 billion in 1986 to the industrialised countries from the developing where well over 800 million people live in poverty and misery ( beyond any rational definition of human decency ) , in which over 40,000 children die every day from malnutrition and disease , in which 2/3 of the world 's people live — is a scandal ’ |
| 8 | night-watchmen , who were superseded in 1829 by the Metropolitan Police ( see NEW POLICE ) . |
| 9 | The Wesleyan mission had been started in 1886 by the old boys of The Leys School as a settlement for the poor of Finsbury and it had the usual assortment of activities such as clubs , bands , and concerts . |
| 10 | The name of the Russian General Suworow keeps coming up in this region because of the marches made by the army he brought up from Italy into Switzerland in 1799 during the Napoleonic Wars , forcing the Gotthard Pass against bitter French resistance , but later driven to retreat back up the Muota valley when the French blocked his path at the passage of the Schlattli bridge . |
| 11 | Despite severe criticism , the newspaper conducted a poll in 1980 into the paranormal beliefs and experiences of its readers . |
| 12 | For example , in 1980 in the Metropolitan police district there were fewer than 2,000 cases of the use of knives in offences of violence against the person and 1,240 cases where knives were used in robberies . |
| 13 | Those undertaking revisions have been helped by the publication in 1980 by the Anglican Communities Consultative Council of the Anglican Office Book . |
| 14 | The problem has been found in 12 of the 17 reactors so far checked . |
| 15 | In 12 of the 16 cases , fresh tissue specimens were snap frozen in liquid nitrogen after 30 minutes ' incubation in gum sucrose for immunohistological studies . |
| 16 | After deforestation and expansion of an agrarian economy during the Iron Age , pH increased by 0.5–1.4 units in 12 of the 14 lakes . |
| 17 | The status quo was maintained in 22 of the 26 councils and the balance of power really only shifted markedly in one : Limavady , where nationalists gained from Unionists . |
| 18 | Although the Conservative vote overall remained roughly at its 1986 level , their comparative share actually fell in 22 of the 36 boroughs . |
| 19 | A response to treatment ( HBeAg seroconversion and serum HBV-DNA negativity ) was observed in 22 of the 40 patients ( 55% ; 95% confidence interval ( CI ) 40–70% ) . |
| 20 | In 22 of the 40 seats Labour won from the Tories , the swing in the constituency was higher than the regional average , and there was a significant cluster of above 6 per cent swings . |
| 21 | It is difficult to give precise guidelines for contingency fee structures as these will vary significantly between assignments but in addition to the points raised in 0502.53 above the following points should be considered : |
| 22 | In 1829 he produced his first coloured print , ‘ Butterflies ’ , and achieved popular acclaim in 1834 with the coloured plates for Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | This showed that management awareness profiles were circulated to the staff in 30 of the 34 units that answered the relevant question . |
| 24 | Intracorporeal lithotripsy was used in 30 of the 48 patients with larger stones . |
| 25 | The pattern of press reporting of rape trials is quite different in 1985 from the previous years we had studied — 1951 , 1961 , 1971 and 1978 . |
| 26 | These measurements were available in 49 of the diabetic subjects studied by Betteridge et al ( 1981 ) . |
| 27 | Contamination occurred in 26 of the 109 cases in which I used diathermy . |
| 28 | This is the reason why a new coalification map for the top surface of the Carboniferous ( 1:500 000 ) is presented as a supplement and revision of a former map published in 1979 by the same authors . |
| 29 | Mitchell ( 1985 ) found that five years after divorce in four-fifths of the 71 families in the study the children had one parent with a new partner and at least one-third had two parents with new partners . |
| 30 | Founded in 1759 upon the highest standards of design , craftsmanship and quality , the company continues to uphold these essential factors in maintaining its leading position throughout the markets of the world . |