Example sentences of "[noun sg] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Biliary extracorporeal lithotripsy has been considered as one of the alternatives to surgery for the treatment of stones in the bile ducts and in the gall bladder in selected patients . |
| 2 | There may also be a place for preserving a useful gall bladder in young patients with solitary or few stones , who may not reform stones . |
| 3 | The urinary bladder in both sexes acts as a halfway house or store for the urine secreted by the kidneys . |
| 4 | ‘ A mean in all things ’ , Nicholas used to say , ‘ was the only way to effect great things with order and effect ’ ; and he laid great stress on a constant interchange of employments . |
| 5 | The whole kit is neatly housed in a semi-circular , strong plastic , self-locking carry-case , which can be strapped next to the spare wheel in many cars , and is both convenient and light enough to carry around . |
| 6 | Well documented and detailed evidence is provided in the journal Religion in Communist Lands . |
| 7 | He feels his purpose in life is to spread the Christian religion in unexplored places where the people have never heard the word of God . |
| 8 | My Lord , My Lords , to what extent is the teaching of religion in primary schools confined to the religion of the er , er to which the child has been accustomed , has been brought up , erm and er would it not be better if , if it were confined in that way and if the teaching of other religions were postponed until the child were older and in the secondary schools ? |
| 9 | It is necessary to understand the simple distinction between being a non-believer , and even in some respects opposed to religion 's influence , and making a judgement about the theoretical and practical importance of religion in human societies . |
| 10 | Social scientists seem to confuse the two , and because they oppose religion and are unbelievers , they do little work on religion in human societies . |
| 11 | Ultimately , it would attempt to find its basis elsewhere — in rational proofs of the reality of God , in the ( assumed ) self-evident truth of ethical and religious principles , in the spontaneity with which religion in diverse forms arises in human communities . |
| 12 | To delay the attempt to begin to understand religion in these ways is to risk making it very difficult for people ever to understand . |
| 13 | I was n't too sure what ‘ officiants ’ were in this context but have since realized that they perform in place of ministers of religion in humanist funerals . |
| 14 | Such insulating GaAs can be used for gate isolation in metal-insulator-semiconductor fets and , because of its short minority-carrier lifetime , in high speed optoelectronic devices . |
| 15 | Mary adds that even those who are successful in finding work and accommodation may suffer from loneliness and a sense of isolation in large cities like London . |
| 16 | A recent development with frightening implications is the isolation in several parts of the world of strains of gonococci which are not just partially resistant to penicillin , but can produce an enzyme , Β-lactamase , which actually breaks down and neutralizes penicillin completely . |
| 17 | Using the cleanest virus in the world , least changed by virtue of its isolation in extreme conditions , against which the human cell would have had no natural experience , they had inserted the Mahon virus into the molecular structure of the human gamete . |
| 18 | The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished . |
| 19 | The areas of traditional Stafford influence , the Welsh march and north midlands , had been otherwise provided for during the duke 's minority but there was a degree of political reorganization in both areas in 1473 , which could have been exploited to allow the duke a role there had the king wished . |
| 20 | The county 's recruitment has been a disappointment in many ways . |
| 21 | Her face was a great disappointment in more ways than one . |
| 22 | In 1623 an elderly Roman organist , Paolo Quagliati ( C. 1555–1628 ) included in his Sfera armoniosa a duetto da camera for two sopranos and violino obligato in three sections distinguished by different characters , different metres , and ( obviously ) different tempi : EX. 87(ii) is a triple-time aria of exactly the same type as those by Berti and d'India just mentioned . |
| 23 | Part of the M1 was closed for the second time in three days following a multiple pile-up in sub-zero temperatures . |
| 24 | If the animal is killed and its brain cut into thin microscope sections , the concentration of glucose in different parts may be determined by measuring the concentration of radiation . |
| 25 | Indications for home monitoring of blood glucose in these patients are a raised glycosylated haemoglobin or a low renal threshold . |
| 26 | Now that the aim is to keep the young diabetic 's blood glucose in single figures as much as possible , the risk of hypoglycaemia is increased and there is much less latitude for missing breakfast after a late night or delaying a meal . |
| 27 | Pinochet on Oct. 23 , 1989 , pardoned two trade union leaders , Manuel Bustos and Arturo Martínez , who were serving 541-day sentences of internal exile in remote towns for calling national protest days in 1985 [ see p. 34347 ] . |
| 28 | The measures empowered the south-eastern regional governor to send individuals into internal exile in other regions if " he deemed them a threat to public order " . |
| 29 | In 1863 , in a note written on a rare visit to England from his self-imposed exile in warmer climes , Lear apologises to Gould for not visiting him because , ‘ all my daylight hours have gone in the service of the old Enemy — Lithography . ’ |
| 30 | Lord Salisbury 's active and generous support of the BDA and of the deaf community as a whole has been a significant factor in the development of the Association in recent years . |