Example sentences of "[subord] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 It 's all a bit iff in the clouds
2 In those areas , where in the interests of equity and efficiency , local management being extended to all schools , the small primary school will have the same range of managerial and administrative responsibilities as the large secondary school .
3 A magistrates ' court may transfer private law proceedings where in the interests of the child they could be dealt with more appropriately in the county court ( APO , art 8 ) .
4 China , Rachel had told Maggie , was the place for dragons , where it was hot , and where in the villages great paper ones were paraded with veneration .
5 Where in the authorities difficulty has arisen this has often been the result of the introduction of an issue whether the creditor appointed the debtor as its agent to obtain the signature of the surety to the charge upon which the creditor sought to rely .
6 Now they no longer remain except in the memories of people native to this village .
7 I have explained why it is difficult to use laboratory experiments and controlled trials in social research except in the cases of narrowly focused psychological studies .
8 What this vague phrase meant we are not told except in the cases of Aimar of Limoges and Raymond of Turenne .
9 The powers of the GLC were passed to the London Boroughs , except in the cases of services that crossed boundaries , such as the fire services , which are managed under joint boards .
10 On Feb. 8 the former regional governors were reappointed governors of the corresponding states , except in the cases of Equatoria and Khartoum .
11 Life had been-kind to her and there were few lines on her face , except in the corners of her eyes and around her swanlike neck just beneath the chin .
12 Few prior to Jones had cared to admit this seditious point except in the columns of the Police Review , where disgruntled beat officers ( often anonymously ) indicate the paradox of being the revered and reviled base on which all the hierarchy is built .
13 And yet , despite all this , the Archbishop of York was not comfortable with the Archbishop of Canterbury except in the moments when the two powerful senses of humour coincided in laughter .
14 Very few of us had actually seen an A1 , except in the pages of our tan Allen ABC 's .
15 Aquatic birds characterised by long neck , comparatively narrow and usually pointed wings , webbed feet , and ( except in the sawbills ) bill flattened and blunt .
16 Direct interventions in elections motivated by local issues are rare , except in the areas where nationalist parties can have an impact .
17 It is , nevertheless , submitted that the Court may not review the outcome of that consideration except in the circumstances outlined above .
18 Note that the child does not have automatic party status when an application is made for a s8 order except in the circumstances specified in ( iii ) and ( iv ) above although he can apply for party status as explained below .
19 There may still be a few people in Islay who will remember , no doubt with appreciation , the Coats libraries , a source of firstly recreation and secondly instruction , when books were scarce in the island except in the houses of the proprietors , and to a lesser degree , the doctor , the ministers and the schoolmasters , long before popular newspapers , radio and television were easily available ,
20 In any event , among adults the moral rigidities of hell and damnation were rapidly disappearing , except in the families of the Dissenting sects .
21 Except in the celebrations that greeted the end of World War II , I have never seen England look as unashamedly delighted by life as it did during the World Cup , ’ Arthur Hopcraft has written .
22 There is nothing to suggest outright conflict between arians and catholics in the kingdom of Toulouse , except in the years of expansion under Euric .
23 In the oceans , too , as we saw , the turnover of life can be prodigious , but except in the mangroves and a few other places there are no big and permanent plants ; the only complex , permanent living architecture in the oceans is provided by the coral reefs .
24 I SUPPOSE THIS WAR too was like all the others , but it was different , except in the ways they are the same .
25 Over one year , while seven funds beat the sector on the basis of £10 a month invested , with the best performing fund — Friends Provident Stewardship North American — now worth £168.89 , the rest fall below the average , although in no cases would the building society have been a better bet .
26 As in the lowlands , the traditional landscape has to some extent been preserved by the economic irrationality of farmers — although in the uplands it consists of their ability to hold on against all the odds rather than disavow the pursuit of maximum profits .
27 Although in the oases they made gardens , perhaps even carried on other spare-time occupations , they were forbidden to trade and did not have the time to be truck drivers .
28 There is little agreement among philologists or social historians as to what brings a particular nickname into being , although in the days when people had just one name , of a given or baptismal kind , it was probably a necessity that an additional term be pressed into service to distinguish between folk of like name .
29 One of the main causes of recurrent famine throughout Ethiopia is the problem of massive deforestation , although in the regions of Wollo , Tigray and Eritrea it has been made worse by war .
30 Although in the hands of a master like Donald E. Westlake the full-length comic crime story can dazzle for 70 000 words or more , at the hands of a less expert practitioner the very repetition of good or goodish jokes can become fatiguing to the reader .
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