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

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1 The highest of these levels produce the long-term stability and progressive improvements in efficiency of the specific decision units lower in the system .
2 Just over 20% of referrals went to private clinics in phase 1 .
3 Meanwhile , in the self-declared Republic of Somaliland in the north [ see pp. 38182-83 ] , relief organizations had begun implementing EC-sponsored programmes in co-operation with the government created there by the Somali National Movement ( SNM ) .
4 ‘ Labour will introduce a new Railway Act that will lay down in law the broad policy objectives that we expect BR to meet , ’ he told the Centre for Local Economic Strategies in Sheffield .
5 Completed by Nash after the style of Mogul Palaces in India , its magnificent interior reflects the exotic vogue for chinoiserie .
6 Worst of all , the angriest voters are not the unemployed in Hartlepool , but retired majors in Haslemere .
7 Party leaders face a dilemma over whether to continue their search , already discussed in private meetings in Washington , for an as yet undeclared candidate in time for their convention in July .
8 Women did find a new means of articulating their experiences by publishing , yet it is a mistake to believe that the huge growth in women 's writing went hand in hand with equally momentous shifts in attitudes toward marriage .
9 There are reports of early political undercurrents in India , which will no doubt gather momentum nearer the time , against the tour to Sri Lanka next year .
10 However , some change in the traditional relationship was signalled when the then Foreign Minister Tserenpilyn Gombosüren had economic discussions in Moscow in December , focusing on pricing , efficiency of joint ventures and eventual dealing in hard currency .
11 Consolidation would be little help if one still had to look at the old repealed Acts in order to interpret the new one .
12 The bank , which was secured by the FDIC deposit scheme , had lost over $1,400 million during 1990 — largely because of failed investments in property development .
13 The border-opening debacle and the wave of mutual recrimination which it engendered appeared to threaten the tentative July agreement to hold the first ever summit between the Premiers of the two Korean states in Seoul , the South Korean capital , on Sept. 4-7 .
14 In Chichester Harbour the highest count recorded until 1961 was of 1,550 birds in February 1959 , but it is doubtful if any counts covering the entire estuary were made before 1966 .
15 He said Wirral Deewatch had so far collected 3,100 signatures in Heswall and West Kirby , and hoped to collect more this weekend .
16 The numbers of teeth involved are often quite small , and where there is a major discrepancy between the digestion of the upper and lower teeth in columns 9 and 10 of Table 3.13 , reference to the actual numbers involved show them to be very small indeed , sometimes no more than one ( columns 7 and 8 ) .
17 Can he tell us how many private operators in Scotland have done so ?
18 Many words and terms have specific meanings in law which are different from their everyday use .
19 The ratio of stable isotopes in marble ( see glossary ) can also be used to determine provenance , and has been particularly useful in checking the integrity of statuary recomposed from fragments ( see p. 109 ) .
20 Studies of stable isotopes in carbonate minerals and skeletal materials can provide valuable environmental and diagenetic information .
21 The prevalent merchant culture in the early Italian city-republics , notably in Florence — one of the largest cities in Europe at the time and one which is well known for its lauda tradition — provided the ideal climate for the development of the lay companies .
22 As one of the ten largest cities in Britain , Bradford has many attractions .
23 Most remarkable of all is the degree of concentration in London , which on the same functional basis is as large as the eight next largest cities in Britain put together ( Champion et al. , 1984 , Champion , Green , Owen , Ellin and Coombes , 1987 ) .
24 In 1745 the municipality of Seville , one of the largest cities in Spain , claimed that only 201 of its inhabitants were liable for military service , all the others being covered by exemptions of some kind .
25 It is estimated to cost in excess of £20,000 to run a car like McHale 's Celica GT4 or the Subarus of Fisher and McKinstry on a rally as long and demanding as this year 's 1,200 mile Circuit — and that 's before the cars are put back together again after a five-day pounding on some of the toughest roads in Ireland .
26 Their sights are set elsewhere as is shown later when discussing " some possible dangers in reading . "
27 Another strand of the hostage crisis which remained deadlocked at the end of December was the issue of missing Israeli servicemen in Lebanon .
28 It requires the development of advanced skills in order to overcome communication blocks , whether because of deafness , aphasia , educational background , past work experience , class , race , or gender .
29 Those early years were a period of tremendous activity , much of it a pioneering nature , in which the most advanced skills in physics , chemistry , metallurgy and all aspects of engineering were brought to bear on the primary mission — the development of nuclear power for military and civil use .
30 Module 3 is mainly differentiated by outcomes which demand more advanced skills in self expression and the use of more elaborate grammatical structures .
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