Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | At present the use of colonic motility tests in clinical practice is limited and will remain so until normal ranges for colonic pressures can be defined and more effective treatments for the various motility disorders identified . |
| 2 | This technique has been utilised successfully in adults to elucidate the pathophysiology of constipation , diarrhoea , and as a clinical test to determine the severity of colonic motility disorder in symptomatic patients . |
| 3 | The commemoration ( now annual ) involved the setting up of over fifty camp sites in the Dorset countryside , complete with tents and catering services . |
| 4 | And that Spitfire pilot in the photograph in Mrs Wright 's house . |
| 5 | Cheered and keyed up in expectation of the pleasant story-book sight in prospect , her hot hand squeezing the scone in her pocket , she followed the path as it passed under the line of windows , before it skirted the domed conservatory where flowers were grown for the house : cactus , geraniums , gloxinia , palms , bird of paradise , passion-flower , maidenhair fern , all throve here in damp and forceful luxury . |
| 6 | Doctors have given warning that drug abuse in East Lothian is developing into a major health problem with worrying signs of a high level of needle sharing . |
| 7 | His judgment was called into question earlier this year when he sang on a chat show just hours after an IRA bomb killed eight building workers in Co Tyrone . |
| 8 | Those countries that are not self sufficient , who ca n't afford to have erm , er , expensive agricultural support policies in place . |
| 9 | Despite the linguistic anomaly that the season called ‘ the time of inundation ’ would in due course fall in one of the other seasons , the Egyptians retained the 365-day calendar right down to the Roman period because of its convenience as an automatic record of the passage of time in an era , each year containing the same number of days , unlike our years . |
| 10 | A month ago MB Group used up the £164m cash proceeds of its Carnaud merger by purchasing ABS Holdings for $300m ( £194m ) to make it the second largest cheque printer in the US . |
| 11 | It follows , therefore , to a certain extent that initiative and creativity are not very important characteristics for lower level managers in this organisation . |
| 12 | Thus suggestions are initiated from the top which are then presented in detail by lower level employees in order to make acceptance of their consequences a less troublesome process . |
| 13 | CAM has regional co-ordination officers in Aberdeen , Leeds , Birmingham , Liverpool , Bristol , Manchester , Newcastle , Edinburgh , Glasgow and Northern Ireland whose aims are to : |
| 14 | It called for the development of solar rural electrification programmes in the South , particularly Africa , and for the expansion of solar power in the Middle East , as a means of preventing possible conflict over water resources for hydro-electric power between Israel and her Arab neighbours or Turkey and Iraq . |
| 15 | CAME 'S BEAUTY stems from being built in the palest of pale Portland stone , arguably the finest building stone in Britain , quarried over the down a few miles towards the sea . |
| 16 | A subfamily of the Ophiuridae characterised by the disk usually covered by plates sometimes with thickened skin ; radial shield usually conspicuous ; arm combs sometimes present ; one to many apical papillae flanked by a continuous series of oral papillae ; second oral tentacle pore opening outside the mouth slit or opening outside but entering the mouth slit via a furrow ; oral shield variable in shape and size ; arms varying size ; arm spines usually less than an arm segment in length and usually appressed . |
| 17 | Table 7.1 thus also supports the contention made in the first half hour of this chapter that short-term contract workers in the service sector are mainly " voluntary " temporary workers . |
| 18 | The DTB 's total contract volume in 1990 was approximately 6.7 million . |
| 19 | In unemployment , total income receipts in period t net of search costs , and . |
| 20 | Accordingly total expenditure E in the period under consideration was composed entirely of consumers ' expenditure C , and total income Y in the community was identical to this expenditure . |
| 21 | LEAST FAVE MAN IN ROCK |
| 22 | This , he believes , is what has made Unisys Corp ‘ the most profitable computer company in the world ’ — since the merger of Univac and Burroughs , it has not only kept headcount low , but also used the profits generated from mainframe sales to develop portable software applications . |
| 23 | Collectively these various banking centres make the ECM one of the largest money markets in the world . |
| 24 | An alternative approach is for the instruction to scan from ( usually ) the most-significant to the least.significant end of the word , searching for the first bit set to one , and placing the number of that bit position in a suitable register , Notice the similarity between this operation and the " shift and count " instruction discussed in the last section . |
| 25 | POLICE have seized 1,600 stolen submachine guns in raids on illegal arms caches in Prague , interior ministry officials said yesterday . |
| 26 | The serum was stored at -40°C in foil-covered tubes , then transported on dry ice to the Nutritional Biochemistry Laboratory in the Institute of Child Health in London , where the serum retinol content was measured by high-performance liquid chromatography ( Spectraphysics , Hemel Hempstead , UK ) with a 10 cm ODS2 column ( Pharmacia , Milton Keynes , UK ) and an ultraviolet detector ( Phillips , Cambridge , UK ) . |
| 27 | Another case is that of Bull , the French nationalised computer manufacturer , which acquired a 65% controlling interest in the American company , Honeywell , and then in 1989 of the microcomputer company , Zenith , to become one of the largest computer companies in Europe . |
| 28 | ICL is a big company with a big ambition — to become one of the largest computer manufacturers in the world . |
| 29 | Most of the calls made to houses are as a result of information given out by LASSY — the largest computer database in Europe . |
| 30 | The annual COMDEX/Fall is the largest computer show in the world . |