Example sentences of "[vb -s] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Belgian variety with a very low salt content and one of the best known mineral waters in the world . |
| 2 | The beautiful and historic town of Buxton , in the Peak District of Derbyshire , is source of one of the purest natural mineral waters in the world . |
| 3 | For decades , the River Kennet near Marlborough was one of the best trout-fishing waters in the world ; until 4 years ago , when several hundred rainbow trout escaped from this fish farm at Mildenhall . |
| 4 | This is said to be one of the best angling waters in the Midlands although this nearly changed a year ago when a slug of pollution threatened to wipe out 100,000 fish . |
| 5 | The urgency and anxiety in Willa Cather 's rendering of black characters are liable to be missed entirely ; no mention is made of the problem that race causes in the technique and credibility of her last novel , Sapphira and the Slave Girl . |
| 6 | Claims for compensation are forcing many employers to take RSI seriously , at last , and to tackle the root causes in the workplace . |
| 7 | The reader is shown many bad marriages through the course of the novel and the disastrous effects it causes in the upbringing of children . |
| 8 | While it is possible to take the view that collective trade union action is of a different kind from initiatives taken by individuals or small groups of workers , most social scientists nowadays would probably accept that these forms of conflict stem from the same root causes in the commodity-status of labour and the constraints of managerial authority . |
| 9 | From the high fields , figures come down the track laden with potatoes or with a bundle of mint , the scent of which lingers in the air after them . |
| 10 | A stuffiness lingers in the air — an overbreathed smell . |
| 11 | To one person this is an amusing fantasy , worth mentioning at the breakfast table , perhaps , but little more than that ; to the other it is a horrific nightmare which lingers in the memory for days . |
| 12 | An impressive five lengths Folkestone success over Thimbalina in June lingers in the memory principally because of an outstanding ride by Lester Piggott , currently recovering from that horrific Breeders ' Cup fall . |
| 13 | Extraordinarily powerful and detailed American serial killer first novel that lingers in the mind long after it 's finished . |
| 14 | That lingers in the garden there . |
| 15 | Many of the rows and heartaches in the home crop up because adolescents think they are grown-up but the parents do n't agree . |
| 16 | Langbaurgh counts in the bar and Redcar around the stage . |
| 17 | Though it 's in the stage area of the Coatham Bowl and Redcar counts in the bar , the bar itself will be closed . |
| 18 | It 's not the taking part that counts in the rush hour race it 's the winning . |
| 19 | Every penny counts in the battle to save the forests . |
| 20 | Galatians 3 , 28 is quoted : ‘ There is neither male nor female for you are all one in Christ Jesus ’ as though sexual differences were subsumed in a common humanity which alone counts in the scheme of redemption . |
| 21 | Mean ( SEM ) pitted red cell counts in the patients was 2.7 ( 0.4 ) % and in the controls 0.7 ( 0.07 ) % ( p<0.001 ) . |
| 22 | But you 're the ones it 's not me it 's you that counts in the end . |
| 23 | In the accountancy of energy , surface energy counts in the balance just as much as any other kind of energy . |
| 24 | The fault , if it is a fault , lies in the Interpretation Act 1978 Sch 1 , which states that for legal purposes a ‘ month ’ means a calendar month , and this applies to legislation since 1850 . |
| 25 | The clinical importance of the finding , therefore , lies in the interpretation of 24 hour pressure recordings in ambulatory patients . |
| 26 | The manner in which the board lies in the water . |
| 27 | A ball is deemed to be in a lateral water hazard if it lies between the parallel red stakes marking the boundary of the lateral water hazard , whether or not the ball lies in the water or on the surrounding bank . |
| 28 | If the failure of the ‘ ideological forms ’ lies in the operation of an idealist epistemology , the specific instances of ideological forms ( religion , aesthetics , the law , politics , philosophy ) that Marx mentions , seem doomed only to the extent that they depend on an idealist epistemology . |
| 29 | The answer really lies in the degree of investigation that is justified and appropriate . |
| 30 | The big difference lies in the degree of chromaticism and dissonance used and the often widely-leaping intervals . |