Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three break-ins in five months forced club officials to adopt the razor-wire option to deter raiders . |
| 2 | So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done . |
| 3 | Risch has shown how the pattern of recurrence risks in various classes of relatives can elucidate the mode of inheritance of a trait . |
| 4 | There are undoubtedly risks in encouraging children to redirect their hostility rather than getting to the root of the problem ( if aggression is frequent and/or intense ) or training the child in ways of coping with life that do n't involve aggression . |
| 5 | Many felt that , as a result of joining the E.R.M. the Sterling exchange rate would be more stable against the other E.R.M. currencies ( the Deutschemark in particular ) and that there would be less requirement for hedging exchange risks in those currencies . |
| 6 | In my view they take far too many risks in these exercises . ’ |
| 7 | Over half the interviewees were worried about the arts in primary schools , sometimes about the excessively routine consideration of techniques at the expense of generating artistic ideas , but more frequently about the lack of any coherent programme . |
| 8 | These integrated systems are in general a function of specialization : distinct arts in distinct places at distinct times . |
| 9 | Greek Geometric shows little contact with contemporary arts in neighbouring lands . |
| 10 | The learned reviewers — and their successors in all ages — might regard this poem as too trivial to bear much discussion , but the fact remains that Stepping Westward is much liked — if one may be allowed to use such a term in criticism . |
| 11 | There are a number of characteristics in these types of market that distinguish them from consumer markets . |
| 12 | Since careful attention needs to be given to the economic , political and social setting when analysing industrial relations in various countries , it is useful to compare countries with broadly similar characteristics in these respects : ‘ By looking at industrial relations problems within a given grouping one achieves an ‘ automatic ’ , major reduction in the number of background … variables ' ( Kassalow , 1968 , p. 103 ) . |
| 13 | I 've described some of the characteristics in those sites . |
| 14 | Following the drilling of deep boreholes in the 1960 's and in 1978–79 which had confirmed the presence of sandstones with good reservoir characteristics in several areas below the thick basalt cover , there was an urgent need to establish whether usable seismic data could be obtained from below the basalts . |
| 15 | In view of the number of working and pleasure horses in the kingdom , when the phrase ‘ horsepower ’ meant literally just that , and the concentration of dairy cows around and even within the metropolis , and also the growing number of pets in middle-class households , it is strange that the demands of so many animal owners , some wealthy or even extremely rich , had not led to the development of a proper profession competent to deal with animal diseases , just as the professions of physician , surgeon and apothecary had burgeoned to meet public demand at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th centuries . |
| 16 | Indeed , Wirral had no more reason to have such structures than it had for setting up multi-professional committees to discuss the dangers of residents keeping snakes as pets in council-owned properties . |
| 17 | Very commonly it provides the energy for the synthesis of vitamin D ( tortoises kept as pets in northern latitudes may find it difficult to breed because they are D-deficient ) . |
| 18 | In an allegedly animal-friendly society , where the rules for pets in public places are generally blurred and often very bad , it 's pleasing to put your head down on a strange pillow knowing your pet is just a pat away . |
| 19 | He took the youngster for her first recording session , making a tape of three songs in two hours for £50 at a local recording studio . |
| 20 | It is quite feasible that band members will have contributed to the composition of songs in different amounts , so the income received from the band 's songs is often split to reflect this . |
| 21 | The final 20 minutes is filled up with a song in three parts ( Rule Two : All songs in three parts are shit , too ) called ‘ Everything Under The Sun ’ , which attempts to be like ‘ Abbey Road ’ , ‘ Tommy ’ , and ‘ Dark Side Of The Moon ’ all at the same time and instead sounds like the worst moments of 10CC , REO Speedwagon and every other would-be epic turd factory band of the 1970s . |
| 22 | It is , of course , a good thing that Extreme dislike war and racism , print addresses for Greenpeace and Amnesty on the sleeve and so forth , but they have nothing of interest to say on the topics ( Nuno wishes that ‘ we were all colourblind , so we could live together peacefully ’ , which is bad news for traffic light designers ) and blow up their tiny philosophical points and questions to elephant size , but in the end , orchestras , big productions and songs in three parts can not disguise lame tunes and lack of anything to say . |
| 23 | Originally from Punjab , Channi began his music career in England by singing religious songs in Sikh temples . |
| 24 | He clearly demonstrated that they formed their spores in sac-like structures known as asci , typical of the Ascomycetes . |
| 25 | The spatial sub-file , which is particularly important for data base integration , was sub-divided into further levels storing nodal position , enclosing box , primary silhouette , secondary silhouette , and tertiary/section silhouettes in descending layers . |
| 26 | Fullback and captain Mark Wyatt , who 29 caps in 10 years is just two fewer than the Canadian record set by lock Ro Hindson between 1973 and 1990 , was not the only one to retire after the World Cup . |
| 27 | From the cross of the two pure strains , and experimental removal of caps in unhygienic hives , Rothenbuhler found all four kinds . |
| 28 | Multiple active compounds in individual herbs makes understanding the pharmacology of these medicines exceedingly difficult and this is further complicated when multiple herbal formulations are used . |
| 29 | Paraconductivity has been reported for many different compounds in various forms , but no consensus about the dimensionality in these materials has been reached . |
| 30 | At the moment our whole economy is based on natural found hydrocarbons — oil , petrol — as these begin to run out , then we 've got to find a way of making these or substitutes for them , and this is what chemistry is all about , making new compounds or making old compounds in new ways . |