Example sentences of "[coord] in [noun pl] to " in BNC.
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1 | Tenants may require assistance in negotiations with landlords or in approaches to housing officials . |
2 | In my view racism , which should be distinguished from racial discrimination , should be restricted to discourses which group human populations into ‘ races ’ on the basis of some biological signifier — for example , ‘ stock ’ — with each ‘ race ’ being regarded as having essential characteristics or a certain essential character ( as in the phrase ‘ the British character ’ , or in attributions to ‘ races ’ of laziness , rebelliousness , or industriousness ) and where inferiorization of some ‘ races ’ may or may not be present . |
3 | B. When trade started , people walked or rode on horseback or in waggons to those villages which were chosen to have weekly markets . |
4 | It must be designed for use in conjunction with a file containing an up-to-date collection of PPGs , MPGs and circulars , so that it can help quickly identify relevant policy statements for use in the preparation of responses to local planning authorities or in statements to public inquiries . |
5 | There is no great difference in the relative proportions of distal limb elements to proximal ones , nor in postcrania to crania ( discounting the excess of isolated teeth in the nest sample ) . |
6 | However , this does not prevent the target 's board from criticising the buyer publicly and in circulars to its shareholders . |
7 | Other members have taken part in running the Grand Canyon of the Colorado on three separate occasions and in expeditions to Greenland , Norway , Sweden , Finnish lapland , Turkey , Yugoslavia and Morocco among other venues in search of wild water rivers as yet unknown to most of us . |
8 | A KGB operative and counterintelligence officer for 32 years , Kalugin had been forced to retire in March , apparently because he had complained to the CPSU central committee and in letters to Gorbachev about the need for fundamental reforms of the KGB . |
9 | Along the whole Mediterranean coast there was a considerable increase in the volume of trade both in agricultural products sought by northern Europe and in exports to the colonies . |
10 | There are thus significant differences between places in voting patterns generally , and in attitudes to the debate about growth and the environment , because social and demographic groups are not evenly distributed across the country . |
11 | For instance , in the cultural and moral area the most marked changes have occurred in family life ; in the role of , and relationship between , the sexes ; in the position of women ; in the attitude to established morality and tradition and in attitudes to authority generally . |
12 | These were to be based on a number of polytechnics and other further education establishments which already possessed strong departments of management and in some cases the designation related to a single establishment and in others to a grouping of two or more colleges . |
13 | From the small beginnings of a meeting in Limerick in 1917 , which 40 Bank Officials attended , the Association has grown in strength and in numbers to a 16,000 strong membership in Great Britain , Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland . |
14 | Observers speculated that it offered Gorbachev 's conservative opponents probably their last chance to influence policy as a credible force in the central committee : in recent weeks a grassroots party revolt had toppled the conservative leaderships in several regions and cities , including Tyumen in West Siberia , Chernigov in the Ukraine , and Volgograd in southern European Russia , while conservatives were facing a rout in the forthcoming local soviet ( council ) elections ( in which party leaders had been encouraged to stand ) and in elections to party posts ahead of the 28th CPSU congress . |
15 | Following its defeats in municipal elections and in elections to the House of Councillors in July 1989 [ see pp. 36800-01 ] , the LDP had embarked upon a programme aimed at reasserting and regaining the political influence which had been damaged not only by the scandals but also by the imposition of an unpopular 3 per cent general consumption tax [ GCT — see p. 36618 , where it is wrongly referred to as a value added tax ] and by the liberalization of import controls in the agricultural sector [ see p. 36800 ] . |