Example sentences of "[noun] in the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saxe-Weimar 's men were mostly German troops in Dutch service who had fought for Napoleon in the previous wars , and not even Saxe-Weimar himself was certain whether they would now fight against their old comrades . |
| 2 | Belov had studied her and contrived her release … and for him it had ended with his body face-down in the icy waters of the Neva . |
| 3 | Personally , I had thought that it was the bunch of madmen from the Labour party who ran the borough in the old days . |
| 4 | Harsher penalties in particular could help foster a tough , ‘ macho ’ criminal self-image in the young men who predominate in the criminal statistics . |
| 5 | Because the return to shareholders and the risks in the two firms are identical , the value of the shares in the two firms must also be identical ; i.e. , which by rearranging becomes or , using ( 6.43 ) and the fact that , we get . |
| 6 | Previous journals have been devoted to applied arts in the pre-war years , turn-of-the-century design , artists as educators , aspects of British interior design , and the European connection . |
| 7 | In the early part of the year the Bank was honoured as the winner of the category for Outstanding support of the Arts in the Scottish Awards for Business Sponsorship of the Arts . |
| 8 | A few preliminary skirmishes in the early stages of the relationship will make it clear how the man is going to react to tears . |
| 9 | At baseline , the renin component characteristics in the studied subjects were consistent with those depicted in other studies : active renin concentration was normal , but prorenin concentration was raised according to retinopathy . |
| 10 | It provides a restitutionary remedy in the following terms : |
| 11 | I am still under the influence of Milton 's potent spell cast in the first two books and have been unable to find a successful remedy in the following books to bring . |
| 12 | However , his ultimate intentions must remain doubtful because in September Warwick and Clarence invaded with French backing and Edward and his brother had to flee into exile in the Low Countries . |
| 13 | However , his ultimate intentions must remain doubtful because in September Warwick and Clarence invaded with French backing and Edward and his brother had to flee into exile in the Low Countries . |
| 14 | The reason for the stronger association in the younger men is not clear . |
| 15 | Unfortunately it is the latter doctrine which dominates present-day thinking in the Western democracies , not only in the political parties of both the right and the left but also among most of you who are likely to be reading this book . |
| 16 | During 1989 there were frequent EC denunciations of Israel 's handling of the intifada , and a communiqué issued by EC leaders in Strasbourg in December 1989 condemned the economic restrictions and bureaucratic harassment imposed by Israel on Palestinian farmers and fruit growers in the occupied territories . |
| 17 | But at least they put stock in the bloody shops do n't they ? |
| 18 | The master was instructed to draw up an inventory of the whole stock in the sick wards ; some weeks passed but he still failed to do so . |
| 19 | Traoré and his wife Mariam were arrested by soldiers at a military air base near Bamako in the early hours of March 26 , apparently attempting to leave the country . |
| 20 | Natural moisturising factors are compounds in the middle layers of your skin that attract water from the atmosphere , giving your skin a youthful ‘ dewy ’ appearance . |
| 21 | In this case , the discontinuity in the electromagnetic components causes impulsive gravitational waves to be generated . |
| 22 | They simply prove , as was seen long ago by Conrad Cichorius ( Romische Studien , 438–42 ) , that an episode in the lost parts of the Satyricon was located in Massalia . |
| 23 | Taylor has been helped a great deal in the six weeks of preparation for the tour by England 's last great left-arm fast-bowler , John ‘ J.K. ’ Lever and the team 's new top bowling coach , Geoff Arnold . |
| 24 | There is now problems on the streets of , there is anger in the outer areas that through your postal code politics people are not getting a fair deal in the outer areas of this city . |
| 25 | Record is also being grown for early lifting in the coastal areas of Cornwall and Wales . |
| 26 | A British experiment in the first years of the twentieth century with commercial secretaries , diplomats detailed for a few years to make a special study of the trade of the area in which they were stationed , had little effect . |
| 27 | There was a substantial body of opinion which would support the view that , whatever convictions were held on the merits , it would be inopportune to introduce this experiment in the unsettled conditions following a major war , when the number of violent crimes was abnormally high and respect for the sanctity of human life had inevitably been impaired by the circumstances of war . |
| 28 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 29 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 30 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |