Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun pl] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their hopes were short-lived however when at a subsequent meeting it became apparent that the study was to concentrate on settlement patterns in the region , ( a well-worn path taken in an attempt to justify existing policies advocating the centralisation of rural development ) , rather than the more fundamental questions of how existing patterns of land ownership influence these settlement patterns . |
| 2 | Porous sandstones near the top of the Sherwood Sandstone occur beneath thick impervious halite horizons in the Mercia Mudstone . |
| 3 | Many new members of her classes were enrolled in these ways and if assessed only on numerical growth and continuous class activity , Miss Green 's success was impressive in comparison with other more conventional branch activities in the District in the mid-late twenties . |
| 4 | The Airborne Self-Protection Jammer was described by the world 's top electronics experts in the 1988-89 edition of Jane 's Avionics as possibly the ‘ most significant US electronic warfare system in the current decade . ’ |
| 5 | The European Space Agency and the Canadian Government are both planning to launch radar satellites in the early to mid-1990s . |
| 6 | Housing quality is examined usually by area rather than by social group and there is little information on different income groups in the countryside and their needs and demands for housing . |
| 7 | The finding of normal cholesterol values in the group of patients undergoing similar preparation before colonoscopy , eliminated the preparatory protocol as a contributor to the lowered cholesterol values . |
| 8 | Ken Threlfall , general manager of the County Durham ambulance service , responding to concerns voiced by Teesdale district councillor Phil Hughes , said response times in the dale bettered the national requirement . |
| 9 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 10 | A settlement was initialled on Feb. 20 by the majority shareholders in the failed Bank of Credit and Commerce International ( BCCI — see pp. 38355 ; 38545 ; 38737 ) and by the bank 's liquidators . |
| 11 | The result is that the shareholders in the target company become the majority shareholders in the acquiring company . |
| 12 | A reverse takeover offer is one where an offeror company makes a general offer to the shareholders of a larger company to acquire their shares in exchange for new shares in the offeror company , with the shareholders in the larger company becoming the majority shareholders in the offeror company . |
| 13 | This was denied and speculation that the paper would move from its traditional support of the Left was quashed by the four banks which are the majority shareholders in the group . |
| 14 | At all ages , dog-whelks feed on discrete , easily identifiable , macroscopic sedentary prey ( upon which they remain for many hours or days ) which not only renders predator/prey investigations in the field possible but also facilitates the maintenance of these animals in aquaria . |
| 15 | 4.18 All admission policies in the Department 's residential and day care units should be reviewed to ensure that they explicitly include an assessment of the potential risk of violence from the client/and or their family . |
| 16 | In the United States most of the great curriculum projects in the ‘ sixties had been subvented rather than controlled by government and in both countries university personnel had been heavily involved , bringing with them , in almost equal measure , a power of creative innovation and an unacceptable academic arrogance which ignores realities in schools and distrusts anything ‘ political ’ as a threat to ‘ academic freedom ’ . |
| 17 | Part ( 3 ) was introduced by the County Court ( Amendment No 2 ) Rules 1991 , which has also abolished the restrictions on the venue in hire-purchase and sale of goods instalment contracts in the case of any action commenced after 1 July 1991 . |
| 18 | We leafed through the various contingency plans in the Home Secretary 's committee but none seemed satisfactory . |
| 19 | The allegory peaks in the scene where Mason meets a mad artist who wants to paint his portrait because he has ‘ the eyes of a dying man ’ . |
| 20 | They studied the interactions of electron-antineutrinos produced in the fission reactions in the nuclear power reactor at Savannah River in South Carolina . |
| 21 | A comparison of the measured spectrum with that expected for antineutrinos issuing from the fission reactions in the reactor 's core reveals whether the antineutrinos have changed in any way en route to the detector ; muon- or tau-antineutrinos would not produce inverse beta decays . |
| 22 | Automatic directions , as stated above , do not apply to admiralty actions or medical negligence cases in the High Court in which a summons for directions must be taken out . |
| 23 | Compaq Computer Corp has restructured its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its customer base and to improve support for Compaq resellers : it will reorganise field resources to five from eight regional areas across the US , centralise major support resources for resellers in Houston , and eliminate surplus field employees , although the number to go was not announced . |
| 24 | Compaq Computer Corp says that the restructuring of its field and reseller support operations in the US to increase interaction with its broadened customer base and provide enhanced support to its resellers ( CI No 2,148 ) , will cost about 150 field employees their jobs , but the loss will be partially offset by an as-yet-undetermined number of employees to be hired at the company 's Houston headquarters as part of the reorganisation ; the 150 to go are the last of the 1,000 jobs that it said it planned to cut in October . |
| 25 | The support operations in the gilt-edged market were proving to be an awkward commitment for the authorities . |
| 26 | While the entire network of popular committees , local institutions and the general public constitute the field commanders in the battle of civilian disobedience and of constructing a political infrastructure , a rotating Unified National Command acts in the role of field-general , issuing a bi-monthly directive outlining policy and determining specific resistance programmes . |
| 27 | The lecithin cholesterol acyl transferase ( LCAT ) system is active in this process and generates cholesterol esters in the HDL and converts them into a spherical shape . |
| 28 | Following a tender competition , the offer from Fairclough Building Ltd. was chosen , but the cost had now risen to almost £1.3 million , partly because of the imposition of VAT on building operations in the 1984 budget . |
| 29 | According to the Senate commission on violence and pacification , Sendero Luminoso was responsible for killing 147 members of civil defence groups in the first 10 months of 1991 . |
| 30 | Although most of the ministry adoptions in the area have gone local , there are useful sales to be made in several sectors . |