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

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1 Outside the press , groups developed in the 1970s and 1980s from several directions .
2 They have eight pairs of walking legs , with their genital openings situated in the top segment .
3 Most are recently converted or purpose-built institutions erected in the last 35 years .
4 Rafts and rafts of water birds floated in the flat sanded estuary .
5 If the authorities intervened in the gilt-edged market to support prices , they would be tending to add to the liquidity of the banking system .
6 This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance .
7 So far portables have about 10 per cent of the PC market ( 5b ) , and sales are growing for all the reasons given in the last question ( 6d ) , including ‘ yuppies love them . ’
8 For reasons given in the text , all figures should be treated carefully .
9 For reasons given in the next section , we remain sympathetically sceptical .
10 For these reasons and for the reasons given in the judgment of Scott L.J. , I , too , would allow this appeal .
11 I also agree that for the reasons given in the judgment of Scott L.J .
12 My Lords , for the reasons given in the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Slynn of Hadley , which I have had the opportunity of reading in draft and with which I agree , I would dismiss this appeal .
13 Only if some people , ‘ because of their special circumstances — because they are crippled or lack talents prized in the market , or for some such reason — end up below the minimum standard of living required to lead a decent , self-fulfilling life at all ’ ( Dworkin , 1978a , pp. 244 , 258 ) would they have a right to ‘ a minimum standard ’ , even at the expense of the general welfare .
14 I spent many hours hidden in the bushes , silently watching one pair of bulbuls make their nest from beginning to end .
15 In the short term it might be expected to gain considerably from the actual construction of the tunnel and figures for the period up to March 1989 show that the South East , including Kent , had gained 27% of the £492m worth of contracts placed in the UK by Transmanche Link : Kent , as a single county , attracted a high share of 9% .
16 Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up .
17 Three major projects completed in the year were the Exmouth and Salcombe site specific field
18 Underneath that I have another article to which was kicked out sometime later but I have it in here , it says , raid on Gdynia would surprise to Nazis to say refugees in Sweden tell how the non Germans cheered in the streets but the two refugees eye witnesses to the American Bombing Attack on Gdynia , October ninth , reported here that the raid caught the Germans by surprise and that non German workers stood in the streets and cheered amid terrific destruction .
19 Moreover , the number of day cases treated in the district has increased by 64 per cent .
20 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 .
21 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 .
22 One nil Leicester twenty four minutes completed in the second half .
23 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 .
24 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 ) .
25 He said the number of emergency calls received in the Dales area of County Durham rarely exceeded one or two .
26 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 . ’
27 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 .
28 The notes floated in the still air , strong and clear .
29 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 .
30 The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them .
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