Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I have just received your Portfolio of MS drawings quite safely , ’ wrote the former to the latter in January 1844 ; ‘ I quite agree with you that they are not to be compared in finish with Lear 's , though generally accurate , but then Lear was a Man both for manners in Society & Skill in his Profession not to be easily found or replaced . ’ |
| 2 | As far back as the 1690s , with the establishment of the Society for the Reformation of Manners in London and the provinces , moral transgressors , including violators of the Sabbath , profane swearers , prostitutes , keepers of bawdy houses , actors in indecent plays and buggers , had been subject to sustained efforts at moral control , while public officials in the royal court encouraged the societies as an important contribution to the woefully inadequate police . |
| 3 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 4 | One does n't miss the odd stem in a large clump , and you can also divide old clumps in spring or autumn , planting the surplus into rows in the vegetable garden or allotment purely to cut for the house . |
| 5 | Against this , however , it has already identified some areas where it has no plans for expansion , including commercial fire risks in Germany and brokered motor vehicle insurance in Spain . |
| 6 | They will counsel officers with psychological problems , assess potential health risks in stations and promote fitness and hygiene . |
| 7 | It is not enough , he argued , to defend the study of the arts in school or university on the ground that it is a vaguely civilizing luxury , agreeable for some people to have ( like , he suggests , a leather blotter from Harrods ) . |
| 8 | There were no clear distinctions between the fine and the decorative arts in Mannerist or Baroque Prague . |
| 9 | Together with the London boroughs , the LAB attaches a high priority to helping to nurture the audiences , performers and producers of the future through its support for the arts in schools and for organisations which work for young people . |
| 10 | However , the covenant will only protect the tenant from interruptions by the landlord and persons claiming under or in trust for it ; therefore covering successors in title or persons having authority from the landlord to do the acts complained of , but not covering the acts of a superior landlord or a predecessor in title of the landlord . |
| 11 | ‘ The purchaser hereby covenants with the vendor by way of indemnity only that the purchaser and the persons deriving title under him will henceforth and at all times duly pay all rents becoming due under the lease and observe and perform all covenants agreements and conditions therein contained on the part of the tenant or persons deriving title under it to be observed and performed and also will at all times keep the vendor its successors in title and assigns effectively indemnified against all proceedings costs claims expenses and liabilities in respect thereof . |
| 12 | They are communities in the sense that one has a sense of ‘ belonging ’ in them , and in the sense that Shetlanders belonging to each are said to be distinguishable by special characteristics in dialect or , less often ( and more humorously ) , by difference in mentality and general attitudes . |
| 13 | There were many archaic temples at this site in the southwest of the island , some huge , most showing local characteristics in mouldings and plan and marked provinciality in their sculptural decoration ( above , pp. 19ff. with fig. 23 ) . |
| 14 | The commission , which has an annual budget of $72m , is also examining ways of emphasising Florida because of competition from orange growers in Brazil and Mexico . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , there are now over 400 officially registered grape growers in England and Wales , most of whom make wine , and most in the South of England . |
| 16 | Elimination of government subsidies for agrochemicals has contributed to a sharp fall in the use of pesticides by rice growers in Colombia and Venezuela . |
| 17 | Bread ( if it is wholemeal ! ) and potatoes are no longer considered the baddies in health and obesity . |
| 18 | Local gangs also improvised local variations in style — velvet caps in Battersea or plaid caps in Poplar , for example , as a badge of identity — and there were certainly trend-setters among the Hooligans . |
| 19 | A former Lasswade forward , Wright 's career reached a turning point last year when he won two caps in Australia and returned home a fitter and more experienced player . |
| 20 | The company is currently establishing its clinical research operation to develop its promising compounds in Europe and the UK . |
| 21 | Chemical processes lead to the release of compounds in solution and the creation of new mineral products , while physical processes cause the breakdown of the original rock into smaller particles . |
| 22 | In the meantime , the Muslim community was subject to complex stresses which were to prove significant both for the events of the immediately succeeding centuries in Mesopotamia and Persia and for those of the 1980s . |
| 23 | A second and more fundamental change occurred in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Europe and in the Islamic world , when lead was added to the ingredients for the inlay . |
| 24 | Durer , Holbein and Nicholas Hilliard ( see Plate J ) are among the famous artists of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries in Germany and England known to have engaged in goldsmith 's work . |
| 25 | The DOE continues to support a study of the migration of the natural decay-series radionuclides of uranium and thorium in a variety of sedimentary settings in Cornwall and Scotland in order to test our ideas and modelling capabilities with a view to applying them to the geological disposal of radioactive waste . |
| 26 | And while there were crudely economic motives in , for example , sending Hitchcock to reconstruct English and Oriental settings in Italy and Germany for his first film , The Pleasure Garden ( 1925 ) , it did at least show that he was as aware as the Film Society 's membership of the backwardness of British films . |
| 27 | It can be characterised by high quality art on a small scale : there are no painted vases or large-scale pieces of sculpture but instead outstanding small bronzes , objects in precious metal and heads and figurines in marble and stone . |
| 28 | Skip , crossing over legs in front and kicking them as high as possible to either side . |
| 29 | On the other side of Horse Guards Parade a little group of people are clustered around a strange animal with three splayed front legs , two rear legs in trousers and a single eye projecting from the middle of its forehead . |
| 30 | There was also pressure for some degree of autonomy from minorities in Kurdestan , Azerbaijan and Baluchistan , from Turcomans in Khorasan and from Arabic-speakers in Khuzestan . |