Example sentences of "[noun] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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1 | Biliary extracorporeal lithotripsy has been considered as one of the alternatives to surgery for the treatment of stones in the bile ducts and in the gall bladder in selected patients . |
2 | There may also be a place for preserving a useful gall bladder in young patients with solitary or few stones , who may not reform stones . |
3 | Well documented and detailed evidence is provided in the journal Religion in Communist Lands . |
4 | He feels his purpose in life is to spread the Christian religion in unexplored places where the people have never heard the word of God . |
5 | My Lord , My Lords , to what extent is the teaching of religion in primary schools confined to the religion of the er , er to which the child has been accustomed , has been brought up , erm and er would it not be better if , if it were confined in that way and if the teaching of other religions were postponed until the child were older and in the secondary schools ? |
6 | It is necessary to understand the simple distinction between being a non-believer , and even in some respects opposed to religion 's influence , and making a judgement about the theoretical and practical importance of religion in human societies . |
7 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
8 | Ultimately , it would attempt to find its basis elsewhere — in rational proofs of the reality of God , in the ( assumed ) self-evident truth of ethical and religious principles , in the spontaneity with which religion in diverse forms arises in human communities . |
9 | I was n't too sure what ‘ officiants ’ were in this context but have since realized that they perform in place of ministers of religion in humanist funerals . |
10 | So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done . |
11 | Risch has shown how the pattern of recurrence risks in various classes of relatives can elucidate the mode of inheritance of a trait . |
12 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |
13 | Over half the interviewees were worried about the arts in primary schools , sometimes about the excessively routine consideration of techniques at the expense of generating artistic ideas , but more frequently about the lack of any coherent programme . |
14 | These integrated systems are in general a function of specialization : distinct arts in distinct places at distinct times . |
15 | Greek Geometric shows little contact with contemporary arts in neighbouring lands . |
16 | Such insulating GaAs can be used for gate isolation in metal-insulator-semiconductor fets and , because of its short minority-carrier lifetime , in high speed optoelectronic devices . |
17 | Mary adds that even those who are successful in finding work and accommodation may suffer from loneliness and a sense of isolation in large cities like London . |
18 | Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete . |
19 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
20 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
21 | Very commonly it provides the energy for the synthesis of vitamin D ( tortoises kept as pets in northern latitudes may find it difficult to breed because they are D-deficient ) . |
22 | In an allegedly animal-friendly society , where the rules for pets in public places are generally blurred and often very bad , it 's pleasing to put your head down on a strange pillow knowing your pet is just a pat away . |
23 | Part of the M1 was closed for the second time in three days following a multiple pile-up in sub-zero temperatures . |
24 | It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this . |
25 | Originally from Punjab , Channi began his music career in England by singing religious songs in Sikh temples . |
26 | If the animal is killed and its brain cut into thin microscope sections , the concentration of glucose in different parts may be determined by measuring the concentration of radiation . |
27 | Now that the aim is to keep the young diabetic 's blood glucose in single figures as much as possible , the risk of hypoglycaemia is increased and there is much less latitude for missing breakfast after a late night or delaying a meal . |
28 | Pinochet on Oct. 23 , 1989 , pardoned two trade union leaders , Manuel Bustos and Arturo Martínez , who were serving 541-day sentences of internal exile in remote towns for calling national protest days in 1985 [ see p. 34347 ] . |
29 | The measures empowered the south-eastern regional governor to send individuals into internal exile in other regions if " he deemed them a threat to public order " . |
30 | Lord Salisbury 's active and generous support of the BDA and of the deaf community as a whole has been a significant factor in the development of the Association in recent years . |