Example sentences of "[conj] [prep] [noun pl] in " in BNC.

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1 Guy ( 1980 ) has concluded from his study of final stop deletion that the individual follows the group norm very closely ; but since we know that scores for different linguistic variables are not distributed within or between groups in a comparable way , we can not conclude that all variables will behave in the same way as the syllable-final alveolar stop .
2 " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) .
3 Investment business from a non-UK office , however , is not regulated business ( and is thus within the foreign business carve-out ) if : ( 1 ) It is not carried on with or for customers in the UK .
4 However , the firm will have to make the prescribed disclosure that all or most of the FSA protections do not apply if ( even though it does not have to do so ) it tells a private customer that it is a member of SFA or is otherwise FSA-authorised ; or ( 2 ) It is carried on with or for customers in the UK , but the FSA 's overseas person exemption would have applied if that non-UK office had been a separate person from the UK office ( see page 40 above and also below ) or , presumably , is outside the territorial scope of the FSA in any event ; or ( 3 ) The business is that of an appointed representative of the firm and is not carried on in the UK .
5 This is because investment business is not regulated business unless : ( 1 ) It is carried on from a UK office ; or ( 2 ) Where relevant , it is carried on with or for customers in the UK and is within the FSA 's territorial scope ( see page 39 above ) .
6 The Publishers regret that under no circumstances will the magazine accept liability for non-receipt of goods ordered , or for late delivery , or for faults in manufacture .
7 The Publishers regret that under no circumstances will the magazine accept liability for non-receipt of goods ordered , or for late delivery , or for faults in manufacture .
8 Feminist debates over prostitution contained no positive representations of active female sexuality , either for prostitutes or for women in general .
9 Local authorities were to prepare detailed land use plans for their areas against which individual planning applications for new or extended dwellings or for changes in land use were to be evaluated .
10 There is an analogy between teachers ' in-service development and the mounting evidence that intervention in pupils ' careers which take place away from their school have limited value for either pupil rehabilitation or for changes in school ethos ( Topping 1983 ) .
11 Similarly , if there are good reasons to target the assessment of the child 's command of specific grammatical structures or certain functional aspects of language , it may be sufficient to scan a tape for examples of these structures or functions , or for contexts in which they might reasonably be expected to occur .
12 More recent studies have recommended that nasal oxygen be used for elderly patients or for patients in general .
13 They 're invited in to talk about a particular thing that 's coming in , about noise or about rats in the basement or about how to , and the interviewer has a very vague idea it 's a topic he 's heard it , he 's thought about it , he thinks it 's a local thing , and he 's actually trying to get something out of it in a sense .
14 The book disappoints , however , by its limited use of the large number of books written by or about Canadians in the two World Wars , in which that country made a contribution to Allied arms out of all proportion to her population .
15 It might thus be led by special paths counter to the flow in one way streets , across pedestrianised zones or bus-only areas or through breaks in culs-de sac .
16 The average business traveller , who does n't pay his own bills or make his own booking , will plump for that option in preference to a detour down a country lane or through suburbs in search of some unknown quantity which might turn out to be a gem .
17 A 1787 directory of Sheffield , for example , shows that local people could take advantage of forty-two different services leading directly or through connections in distant towns to most parts of England , Scotland and Wales .
18 In the past , there has been a tendency in the NHS to shift costs from Health Authority to family practitioner committee budgets , through the earlier discharge of patients from hospital , or through restrictions in drug prescribing on hospital discharge .
19 Such possibilities could be explored either through market experiments in which the problem of this paper is embedded , or through simulations in which agents follow strategies similar to those observed in these experiments .
20 As has been suggested by earlier speakers , please pass it on through schools , colleges wherever you might be active within the movement , or through children in local schools .
21 Worldwide there are now many millions of patients who have been successfully treated with ciprofloxacin either in hospital or as outpatients in general practice .
22 Many members of the Moscow research institutes have hurled themselves into politics , as advisers to Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin or as politicians in their own right .
23 However , it is not clear whether this has been the result of state intervention or of changes in the structure of production .
24 First , it is obviously impractical to solve the problems of war-torn African states or of conflicts in countries such as Sri Lanka by moving their populations to western Europe .
25 These punches might consist of elements of the design ( such as part of the king 's crown ) or of letters in the inscription , and a careful examination of the coins can reveal that they were struck from dies made from the same punches ( fig. 5 ) .
26 In spite of last-minute adjustments some of the approximately 40 opposition parties complained that constituency boundaries were weighted in favour either of conservative-minded voters in the thinly populated south or of voters in areas where anti-clerical Berber parties were strong .
27 In practice , many States seem willing to adopt a generous view of the scope of the Convention , responding to requests to obtain the results of blood-grouping tests ( at least where the subject is willing ) and to provide copies of public documents or of entries in registers of civil status .
28 Contributions by partners or participants may consist of cash or of contributions in kind .
29 Whether the buy-out will be of the business assets of the target , or of shares in the target company , is significant for tax purposes .
30 The greater likelihood of their being admitted to an institution in Ipswich may well reflect a greater availability of beds or of places in residential accommodation , as well as a different attitude towards home care on the part of the psychogeriatrician ( researchers ' fieldnotes indicated that he was more preoccupied by the notion of patients being ‘ at risk ’ in the community than was the case with the Newham psychogeriatrician ) .
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