Example sentences of "[vb -s] in [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Yes , Mr Gorbachev would say , but look at the capitalist misery it causes in places like Poland and eastern Germany .
2 An alternative explanation is that liver disease itself might be a major factor but we have not found high pitted red cell counts in patients with chronic active hepatitis or primary biliary cirrhosis ( Muller and Toghill , unpublished observations ) .
3 The functions were derived from standard maps of our own previous ganglion cell counts in retinae of M. multatta ( Fig. 2 ) .
4 The only real , the only true wealth lies in friends in abundance , company in plenty , comfort in abandon , love overflowing : what have these things to do with money ? — except that we cheat and lie and use money to acquire them ; knowing no other way to do it .
5 This is cheating the system after all ; a system that has provided you with education , health care , roads , even the clean water which now lies in puddles on the kitchen floor .
6 One alternative to such phrases lies in expressions of your own which are intended to convey more genuine , original response , but which within the overall register of academic essay-writing can sound uncritical or even gushing : " brilliant " , " fantastic " , " really wonderful " , " quite magical " , " unbelievably beautiful " .
7 There is no generally agreed explanation for how dowsing works and some consider that the answer lies in emanations from whatever is being sought .
8 Stucco lies in drifts of powdered plaster .
9 What lies in pieces around them represents , in effect , a unique private exhibition open to a lucky few who for the first time in generations have had the opportunity for hands-on experience of greatness .
10 But I do think it matters in terms of recruitment .
11 symbolising what matters in terms of the values of the organisation ;
12 However , the presence of CFCs , which have strong absorption bands in parts of the infrared spectrum , may induce their own ‘ greenhouse effect ’ within the stratosphere , thereby offsetting the carbon dioxide effect ( Ramanathan , 1975 ) .
13 This hotel stands in gardens on the main road two miles from Riva and 300 yards from Torbole centre .
14 The main finding of this study is that if intestinal pseudo-obstruction develops in patients with amyloidosis , the clinical features are considerably different according to the chemical types of amyloid protein .
15 Uddin , who lives in flats above the restaurant , was fined £840 and ordered to pay £75 costs after pleading guilty to both charges .
16 It is estimated that 60 per cent of the rural population of Latin America lives in conditions of poverty ( ECLAC/FAO 1985 ) .
17 The monk seal lives in colonies off the coast of Morocco , Mauritania and the eastern Aegean .
18 One of the most remarkable accounts of collaboration in mammals comes from recent research by Olwyn Rasa ( 1977 ) on the dwarf mongoose ( Helogale ) , which lives in colonies in arid parts of Africa , often burrowing a refuge in the base of a termitarium .
19 It lives in areas of Russia and China forbidden to visitors until recently .
20 Honey-bees lives in hives in large societies of about 15,000 bees .
21 This apparently magical gift is actually provided by the palolo , a tropical relative of the lugworm , which lives in crevices in coral .
22 The major Japanese computer manufacturers expect to report sharp declines in profits for fiscal 1993 , Associated Press reports from Tokyo : five companies — Hitachi Ltd , Toshiba Corp , Mitsubishi Electric Co , NEC Corp and Fujitsu Ltd are expected to report a combined 72% decline in profits , according to the Nippon Keizai Shimbun , the second consecutive drop in yearly earnings among the five firms , which collectively saw a 59% drop last year from the prior year ; NEC has revised its expected loss upwards to $370m from $77m forecast in November , Hitachi expects earnings to fall 33% to $733m , Fujitsu forecast its first loss at $8.6m , and Mitsubishi Electric expects a 30% fall in profit to $336m ; Sony Corp , NEC and Hitachi are considering raising export prices to compensate for a 6.5% appreciation of the yen against the dollar in the past month , which has begun to erode Japanese exporters ' profits .
23 Declines in levels of infant and early childhood mortality tend to take place in tandem with improvements in education , particularly of women , urbanization , improved sanitation and housing and the growth of income and wealth , factors that are , not accidentally , associated with the rationalization of reproductive behaviour .
24 According to an official survey , the income needs in terms of dinars of a family of four in early 1987 varied from 17 per cent above the Yugoslav average in Slovenia to 18 per cent below the average in Kosovo .
25 Such a plan would analyse current and future staffing needs in terms of the whole school , teams within the school , and individuals .
26 The research will try and determine users needs in terms of open systems and this year , for the first time , supply-side research will also be conducted to determine how vendors ' offerings measure up to users ' stated requirements .
27 Disagreement may occur between different levels within the organisation where one level controls the resources that the other wants in terms of information , salary increases , promotion and so on .
28 So you know do you get all the credit for it , because it happens in institutions in your division ?
29 Similarly , other experts say that the peak in testosterone which happens in women around mid-cycle when they are ovulating — and the very time they are likely to get pregnant — is very slight and unlikely to result in your pursuing your mate with greater passion .
30 They spread it all over Europe in competition with their bitter rivals the Rothschilds , who did not like the idea but were obliged to follow suit , and — as so often happens in periods of boom when financiers feel heroic and the money rolls in — it was much imitated , especially in Germany .
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