Example sentences of "[verb] in [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surface waters in contact with melting ice tend to be very thinly populated with zooplankton . |
| 2 | A course designed to meet the needs of people in industry who have to communicate in English during their working lives . |
| 3 | No previous knowledge of Persian is required for admission to Persian 1 ; by the end of the year students should be able to read newspapers and simple Persian texts , and to communicate in Persian with native speakers . |
| 4 | The records need to be sorted in order of a particular ( key ) field before storing the data on to the file . |
| 5 | This desolation is known as the Chaos Wastes or the Northern Wastes , and is surrounded in turn by only slightly less corrupted lands of distorted trees and broken rocks called the Troll Country . |
| 6 | All that is required now is for each tip to be lifted in turn from the worktop , and the strong tape folded over to form a complete pocket at each corner . |
| 7 | The sanctions were lifted in advance of a visit by Arens to the European Council of Ministers on April 2 , 1990 . |
| 8 | The German Tertiary coals ( L. Miocene-Aquitanian ) ranged in maturity between 0.4 to 3.0% reflectance ( Table 2 ) and had maceral analyses similar to those of the Palaeozoic coals , except that the desmocollinite exhibited a weak fluorescence . |
| 9 | The Palaeozoic coals ( Carboniferous-Pennsylvanian ) ranged in maturity from 0.4 to 2.9% reflectance ( Table 1 ) . |
| 10 | They ranged in size from 2.4 metres to 9 metres . |
| 11 | The fundholding practices I visited ranged in size from 12 000 patients ( six partners ) to 17 000 patients ( seven partners ) . |
| 12 | They ranged in size from towering architectural masterworks like London St Pancras and the Victoria Terminus , Bombay , to undistinguished single-platform halts like Borrobol and Salzcraggie , request stops on the Highland Line for the shooting gentry . |
| 13 | The islands , which were largely uninhabited and ranged in size from 20 to 80 hectares , were among the smallest of Greece 's approximately 3,700 islands . |
| 14 | Characteristically , they ranged in size from about 1,000 to 4,000 people in the early years of Victoria 's reign , but the ones that were administrative , legal or ecclesiastical centres as well as market towns were sometimes larger than that . |
| 15 | As they were mainly couples who had been married for a number of years and were now able to move to a larger , more expensive home , their children ranged in age between seven and nineteen years . |
| 16 | Through these curtains came the sounds and smells of fifty-nine other men who ranged in age from seventeen to eighty-four . |
| 17 | The mothers told her they had given their children , who ranged in age from six to 17 , as much information as they could . |
| 18 | They ranged in age from three to fourteen . |
| 19 | In 1975 the Brown sisters ranged in age from fifteen to twenty-five . |
| 20 | The eight players who made up America 's team ranged in age from Cathy Gerring , 29 to Pat Bradley in her 40th year . |
| 21 | Subjects ranged in age from 21 to 61 and all had held a full British driving licence for at least three years . |
| 22 | The patients ranged in age from 19 to 68 years ( median 36 ) . |
| 23 | The patients ranged in age from 14 to 76 years ( mean 47 ) at the time of diagnosis of stricture . |
| 24 | The patients , nine men and seven women , ranged in age from 25 to 70 years , with a mean of 54 years . |
| 25 | The other twenty-six responded to psychotherapy which ranged in length from one month to four years . |
| 26 | Counties ranged in population from about 2 million ( Lancashire ) to less that 30,000 ( Rutland ) ; county boroughs ranged from over 1 million ( Birmingham ) to 33,000 ( Canterbury ) — less than the minimum population stipulated in 1888 . |
| 27 | The French king Robert the Pious ( 996 – 1031 ) allegedly delighted in generosity to the poor , in acts of humility , such as when he washed the feet of 160 clerics with his own hair , and in making gifts to churches . |
| 28 | The group were originally expected to tour in support of their ‘ best of ’ LP , ‘ Kiss This ’ , which is issued through Virgin this week . |
| 29 | Furthermore , this enhanced presence of calcineurin can act in synergy with a phorbol ester to stimulate T cells , thus by-passing the normal calcium requirement . |
| 30 | Many , however , came to accept it in the context of their hopes for future labour success : capitalist bureaucracy was undesirable , but when labour came to dominate Parliament , the bureaucracy would act in sympathy with the needs and condition of the working class and would no longer be regarded as an alien intrusion . |