Example sentences of "[noun pl] in [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Runcie described his visit to survivors in hospital the following day . |
| 2 | At this point all three friends felt an unruly wave of amusement sweeping over them , and the rest of the fire-drill was spent desperately avoiding each other 's eyes in case a fit of the giggles should descend , and they were all agreed ( especially Mildred ) that this would definitely not be the thing to do . |
| 3 | The thin little cat , her repast spread on a newspaper in the corner , dug her sharp white teeth into the cod 's head , closing her eyes in bliss the while . |
| 4 | Lack of proper equipment , inadequate housing — are such considerations in fact a cause of dissatisfaction ? |
| 5 | Not that he seemed to mind in the slightest , she acknowledged wryly , forced to bite her lips in silence every time the actress materialised apparently from nowhere to spirit Dane away . |
| 6 | A few supermarkets and food shops were open , most with long queues of customers waiting in the intense heat , hoping to stock up on food and other necessities in case the paralysis of the city 's life continues . |
| 7 | Residents should have the same security of tenure as normal tenants , even if they spend weeks or months in hospital every now and again . |
| 8 | I shall have to stay near open areas in case the engine fails . |
| 9 | I shall have to stay near open areas in case the engine fails . |
| 10 | The essence of the fraud is the offer of cheap finance : brokers all over the country are now offering companies in need the chance to borrow at 8.75 p.c . |
| 11 | Generally in rational expectations models in macroeconomics the policy rule generating the prediction for a variable comprises an equation whose determining variables typically comprise both lagged endogenous variables ( e.g. values of and lagged exogenous variables ( e.g. ) . |
| 12 | With all these elements in mind the best thing that a designer can do is tell you to cast off the stitches and leave the method to you . |
| 13 | When I was a little boy , Sir , we had prayers in class every morning at school . |
| 14 | MOUNTAINS IN FOCUS the Czechoslovak Tatras |
| 15 | SHY tax inspector Felix will miss out on £50,000 this month — because he 's scared to make public appearances in case the bosses at his day job recognise him . |
| 16 | I shelter his top in winter ; he gains from half a yard to two feet in height every summer and will , ere long , I doubt not , repay my care with his beauty and fragrance . |
| 17 | Admittedly , we on the ground were not the ones who put their lives in danger every night , but as far as the air crew were concerned it was a job they had volunteered to do and they did it willingly , believing that every effort counted in the long run . |
| 18 | Appointment , agenda item eight , appointments in accordance no appointments , all agreed . |
| 19 | Why do the Government believe that for people on low incomes in employment the social security system , especially through family credit , has a vital role to play , yet for people on low incomes in education the social security system , through housing benefit , plays no role ? |
| 20 | Why do the Government believe that for people on low incomes in employment the social security system , especially through family credit , has a vital role to play , yet for people on low incomes in education the social security system , through housing benefit , plays no role ? |
| 21 | Apart from the traffic implications in grid-locking the roads of Caerphilly , up Manor way , it might even have had repercussions for the hon. Gentleman 's constituents . |
| 22 | After over 300 days in space the cosmonaut Sergei Krikalyov returned safely to earth from the Mir space station on March 25 , his return having been delayed since December . |
| 23 | And taking enough food to last for several days in case the boat was held up by gales . |
| 24 | When he was released in September 1991 after 865 days in captivity the couple moved to Cyprus to begin a new life together . |
| 25 | Days in advance the bogs had been walked and snipe shot for that famed Snipe Pudding of Mrs Geary 's — a pudding more gently extraordinary than any game pie . |
| 26 | ( 2 ) As a consequence of these defects in treatment the plaintiff was born with those disabilities . |
| 27 | The police , for example , might worry about consulting too closely with social workers in case the validity of the evidence they gained might be threatened . |
| 28 | AFTER perusing the ghosts in bed the other night ( see above ) it seemed equally appropriate to mull over the National Bed Federation findings about what people do in bed . |
| 29 | Not everyone wants to teach , and with the very rapid advances in treatment the ward sister may sometimes have an uneasy feeling that the student is more up-to-date than she herself . |
| 30 | The theology of liberation first developed in the 1960s as a Christian Socialist philosophy which holds that it is the duty of the Catholic Church to work for social and economic reforms , particularly in the Third World , and to adopt the cause of the oppressed , These positions were approved at a meeting of Latin American bishops in Medellin , Columbia , in 1968 and represented a watershed for the church in Latin America , The Medellin documents openly denounced the poverty and brutality of the relations of production in Latin America : withdrawing support from the classes in power the bishops called , most significantly , for agrarian reforms , The documents proposed programmes , based on the method of Paulo Freire 's " education for liberation " , which were designed to promote a new sense of community action for change among the poor . |