Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , code switching in such conversations is the norm for British-born speakers in my sample . |
| 2 | The ‘ bibliographical division ’ is divided into subject groups , each of which is responsible for professional duties in one service point of the authority , and also for all the bibliographical responsibilities in the subject field allocated to it . |
| 3 | Hospitality is the magazine for professional managers in the hotel and catering industry and now reaching all of its senior executives . |
| 4 | Determined not to let herself be beaten by such obstacles , Prue came up with the idea of a luncheon club for professional women in the Exeter area . |
| 5 | Service Sector — For professional firms in the service sector a typical resource constraint is the lack of the necessary professionally qualified staff needed to meet client demand . |
| 6 | This promised to be a difficult task ; hence the need for professional economists in the cabinet . |
| 7 | It should be noted that if the settlor was domiciled outside the United Kingdom when he made the settlement but was either resident or ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom at that time , this special relief for professional trustees in s69(2) would not apply . |
| 8 | Of the 415 cases of death in custody recorded by Amnesty International since 1985 , police officials were imprisoned for murdering prisoners in just three cases . |
| 9 | The modern tournament is now won by a side carefully garnering its resources for two or three vital games — witness Italy in 1982 — rather than by going all out for emphatic victories in each match . |
| 10 | The jury sat for 184 days in total , spread through a year and four days , the second longest criminal trial in English legal history . |
| 11 | Having said which er I I 've already pointed out that I I see no great potential for fifty hectares in in our area . |
| 12 | It is a remarkable tribute to their builders that they have survived for fifty years in regular service , albeit in rebuilt form . |
| 13 | The Masai were elusive , even when constantly told they had nothing to fear , and consequently the British administration found itself engaged for fifty years in a ceaseless struggle to impose on them some measure of control . |
| 14 | In Paul Guillaume 's gallery a book on African sculpture was selling for fifty francs in 1917 ; it was a book Modigliani would have prized , but at the cost of three days ' subsistence plus one meal , it was out of the question . |
| 15 | He was on the other side of the road , saw me watching him , stopped , turned and walked slowly for fifty yards in the direction he had come . |
| 16 | During World War I Alice divided her time between entertaining in her home in Grosvenor Street and helping her friend , Lady Sarah Wilson , run a hospital for wounded soldiers in Boulogne . |
| 17 | The provisions for capital gains tax relief for entrepreneurs were also amended to extend the relief to gains arising from the sale of quoted shares where the qualifying entrepreneur held them when they were unquoted and allow him or her to claim relief when they receive shares in another company in exchange for unquoted shares in their own . |
| 18 | The evidence is that since the thirties women have begun to stand for political positions in their own right but progress has been slow . |
| 19 | The Independent of Feb. 26 reported that the armed forces had lobbied for political changes in Sind in the aftermath of the Karachi violence earlier in the month . |
| 20 | President Blaise Compaore on April 18 dropped his second-in-command , Clément Oumarou Ouedraogo , from the influential post of secretary for political affairs in the ruling Popular Front 's executive committee . |
| 21 | Amnesty International has received information about nearly 300 Ugandan nationals currently detained for political reasons in Rwanda . |
| 22 | A total of 2,500 civilians had been killed for political reasons in Colombia [ see also pp. 37484-85 ] , while in Peru hundreds had " disappeared " or had been murdered or tortured by government security forces [ see also pp. 37485-86 ] . |
| 23 | Amnesty claimed that Moslem fundamentalists made up the majority of the 8,000 people arrested for political reasons in 1989 . |
| 24 | By the end of the 1940s , Spain was on the verge of a major economic crisis , because the country 's infrastructure was incapable of sustaining the programme of self-sufficiency adopted for political reasons in 1939 . |
| 25 | The point they are making is that , for the most part , people still vote more for political parties in Britain than for the individual candidate . |
| 26 | In the wake of this violence the National government pushed forward with the Public Order Act which , among other clauses , prohibited the wearing of uniforms for political purposes in public places or at meetings . |
| 27 | Finally she returns to her original distinction between female , feminine and feminist , and suggests how the relation between them might have implications for possible developments in the practice of philosophy . |
| 28 | On that basis and assuming costs were held at 1989/90 levels with no allowance for possible changes in unit costs of inputs , the loss a farm would be between £23,7000 and £28,000 , depending on type of tenure . |
| 29 | She found that of the 16 libraries which retained archive files of statistics , the following principal uses were recorded : monitoring book use for duplication of titles ( 10 libraries ) ; fund allocation ( 5 ) ; monitoring book use for change of loan status of books ( 5 ) ; and for relegation purposes ( 5 ) ; examination of interdisciplinary use of stock ( 3 ) ; monitoring loans for possible changes in loan regulations ( 2 ) . |
| 30 | Schools will therefore have to plan for possible alterations in price and salary changes throughout the year . |