Example sentences of "[noun] in [noun pl] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He denied two charges of abandoning the pets in circumstances likely to cause them unnecessary suffering on October 23 last year .
2 But many commentators saw only a decline in the desire to rear or look after children , a weakening of the cohesive effects of the family , and an associated diminution of the buoyancy of the stock in terms familiar at least since the Boer War .
3 The assumption may not be justified , but it will be held until somebody comes forward to show that there are other ways of making investment in railways profitable .
4 Despite the news of investment in programmes worried staff at both stations are bracing themselves for cost cutting and job losses .
5 But before we could move the band shambled on , young kids in clothes similar to the audience .
6 The case concerned discovery sought from a German third-party defendant in proceedings pending in Louisiana .
7 The nature of immunisation programmes as a means of preventing infection is determined according to the prevailing circumstances of a particular country and readers in countries other than the UK should supplement this section with relevant local information .
8 This would involve interpreting loss in terms other than pecuniary , for example , in terms of loss of reputation or market standing .
9 Parties in actions other than the lead actions shall be at liberty to incorporate in their pleadings such part or parts of the pleadings in the lead actions as they may wish to adopt .
10 This led the Germans to emphasise their strengths in things other than politics , especially culture ( during the first half of the 19th century ) and industry ( during the second half ) , using these to build the German nation .
11 The second will seek to allow people to subscribe to pension funds in countries other than the one in which they live .
12 ( i ) Chop the testis or testicular biopsy in Eagles Minimum Essential Medium ( Gibco Biocult , MEM without glutamine ) , gently macerating the tubules with curved blunt forceps .
13 Their research in areas other than the psychology of ‘ race ’ and prejudice is treated lightly , particularly if it is theoretical , unless it puts questions of ‘ race ’ aside entirely and adopts a white feminist perspective .
14 Despite a conspicuous absence of the merest shred of evidence that Nizan had " betrayed " the PCF in any sense other than resigning from the party itself , it was objectively impossible for a communist in postwar France to view Nizan in terms other than those of betrayal and treachery .
15 George was adept at reading entries in directories official lists and Who 's Whos from many countless which tried to skip the most interesting parts of a subject 's life .
16 a means of proof-printing the text of dictionary entries in forms suitable for review by lexicographers
17 Looking at the effects of inheritance in a broader perspective , it is apparent that the laws and customs associated with it in any society have the effect of shaping kin relationships in ways other than the transmission of economic resources .
18 Substitution of numbers for 52 per cent could do this for an words in formulae easy standing charge and number of units ' formula and 17 per cent for an electricity bill ( p.61 ) .
19 If last year 's congressional deliberations are any guide , R&D should recoup some of the losses in programmes unpopular with the White House , and defence wo n't get everything the Pentagon would like — in effect , lopping off the extreme fluctuations while maintaining the basic thrust of the White House economic philosophy .
20 Meanwhile Kubota Corp — majority shareholder in Stardent and now a 30% stakeholder in AVS Inc — is left with Stardent 's MIPS R3000-based Titan series of high-end graphics workstations .
21 A decrease in rates payable will also be limited to 10% and 15% for small businesses .
22 It remains to be seen whether interaction occurs between DRP and glycoproteins in tissues other than muscle and whether such interaction is important to the function of DRP in these tissues .
23 Of course last year that did n't happen and last year hidden away in the first part of the er the budget papers was this cut in the amount of money going to each pupil erm in education in secondary school , so this year we are not doing that we 're going to meet the full cost of so in that sense the formula will be unchanged , and of course there 's growth er later in the budget and both primary and secondary schools in terms delegated budgets .
24 This correlation argues for the possibility of synthesis of platelet activating factor precursors in cells sensitive to gastrin stimulation .
25 Another well-known example from the USA arises from an apparently striking fall in fatalities due to road accidents from one year to the next following a police drive against speeding motorists in Connecticut .
26 A 2.8 per cent fall in imports due to sluggish consumer demand and weak corporate business activity helped widen the surplus , analysts said .
27 Although the number of suicides by other methods rose , this was not sufficient to compensate for the fall in deaths due to coal gas poisoning — indeed , a reduction in suicide of over 30% was observed .
28 The French tract , while not primarily concerned with the sea and the exercise of sea power , none the less tried to show not merely France 's equality but its superiority over England in matters maritime .
29 Thus early in the war , Bletchley became the intellectual centre of England in terms other than the purely geographical .
30 c ) any increase attributable to the Act in sums payable out of money provided by Parliament under any other Act .
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