Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in the " in BNC.

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31 For our purposes , however , enough has been said to describe how the institutional setting can cause expenditure patterns of local authorities to deviate in the direction indicated by empirical work of Gramlich .
32 Moreover , the number of day cases treated in the district has increased by 64 per cent .
33 To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place .
34 As records are created online for both existing holdings and new titles received in the Library Periodicals Unit staff will make use of the VTLS Serials control module for recording issues , on receipt , in the online system .
35 WELFARE groups joined in the condemnation of the Government 's decision to impose value-added tax on fuel bills yesterday by counting the cost in human terms .
36 A total of 94 riders remain in the race with four stages to go.Two dropped out yesterday , Australian Rob McLachlan submitting to flu and South African Steven Wolhuter being admitted to Shrewsbury Hospital for a check-up though he was released later .
37 One nil Leicester twenty four minutes completed in the second half .
38 His beard and teeth got in the way .
39 He showed some nepotistic , or rather patrimonial skill in getting his sons placed in the public service ; his failure to have amassed even a modest competence of wealth may be taken to argue either extreme probity or reckless extravagance , but more likely arose from having over-extended his credit in trying to send supplies to Ireland back in 1642 .
40 In this study , sulphate reducing bacteria must have been absent , or their activities limited in the non-methanogenic samples tested , because it is highly unlikely that methanogenic bacteria will displace sulphate reducing bacteria for this mutual growth substrate given an adequate supply of electron acceptor ( sulphate ) .
41 Bright little creature — it took her just three minutes to work this out as her antennae fluttered in the sudden sweet smelling breeze .
42 He said the number of emergency calls received in the Dales area of County Durham rarely exceeded one or two .
43 They contract with hospitals to buy services on behalf of patients and can use any surpluses to invest in the practice .
44 This feeling was unambiguously expressed by J. H. Muirhead , a Professor of Idealist Philosophy and secretary of the Ethical Society , who , while acknowledging the long history of ‘ class differences ’ , nevertheless warned that ‘ Class conflicts waged in the name of fundamentally different and irreconcilable social and ethical standards are a new thing . ’
45 Its frenzied rejection was very different to that of the many projects listed in the Police Foundation or Home Office Registers of Research mentioned above , most of which are simply ignored and never ever receive any review .
46 The notes floated in the still air , strong and clear .
47 And they are concerned that the media and the public will take the proposals floated in the paper as cast iron and expect the APB to implement them all .
48 This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 .
49 In any case other activities got in the way of getting to the Sunday services , but I managed the rehearsals and some weekday 5pm services .
50 To illustrate the point let me cite the example of Yorkshire , where the majority of the county 's clubs competing in the Courage Leagues have no opportunity of taking part in a national knock-out competition .
51 THE Football Association are to request that players of all clubs competing in the third round of the FA Cup this weekend should wear black armbands in memory of former secretary Ted Croker , who died at the age of 68 on Christmas Day .
52 ICE hockey clubs competing in the Heineken League promotion play-offs this weekend are in some confusion over what format the league ladder will take next year .
53 The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them .
54 Yet when he trilled on the water-whistle , he seemed to create birds singing in the branches of invisible trees overhead .
55 As they moved along the route she became aware of birds singing in the trees , and of sheep grazing peacefully in the fields .
56 A molecule of CFC 11 or CFC 12 is 12,000 — 16,000 times more effective as an infrared absorbing gas than carbon dioxide , and CFC molecules remain in the atmosphere for 65–90 years or even longer .
57 For example , one of the skills developed in the first few years of life involves the integration of data arriving through the different sensory channels .
58 Taking Norfolk as a case study , this project investigates the contribution which local authorities make in the area of job-creation through their provision of industrial premises .
59 Mathematical and language skills unite in the understanding of logic and reasoning , an essential component of mature intelligence .
60 On one island the macaques lived in the forested interior .
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