Example sentences of "[noun] in the [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Also important is continuing investment in the many communities in which we operate . |
| 2 | He admitted the murder in the few words he spoke to the people . |
| 3 | Were it not for the single inconvenient occurrence in the data ( example 22 ) of they as the subject of a singular verb , we could set up an initial list of ‘ invariant ’ environments , which themselves are characteristic of this vernacular system , prior to an investigation of patterns underlying the variability in the many environments which permitted it . |
| 4 | Cars in the latter colours had 133 crashes resulting in injury per 10,000 cars in 1991 . |
| 5 | Plant subjects in the same lunchboxes that had been used for previous experiments were placed on a stand and viewed . |
| 6 | She realised with a suppressed groan that she was forced to justify herself to the chief superintendent in the same terms as she had defended herself against Christine Mills . |
| 7 | Held , refusing the declarations , that a basic valuation prepared by an employee of a building society was an ‘ action taken by the society in relation to ’ the grant of a further advance within section 83(1) of the Act and since it constituted part of the society 's process of administration , such a valuation , if negligently prepared , could amount to maladministration within paragraph 1 ( d ) of Part III to Schedule 12 to the Act ; that , on the documentation used by the plaintiff societies , a house buyers ' valuation prepared by an employee created a contract between the society and the borrower , which if negligently prepared could amount to a breach of the society 's contractual obligation within paragraph 1 ( a ) of Part III to Schedule 12 ; that although the alleged want of due skill and care might relate to matters not affecting the society 's assessment of the adequacy of the security , the valuation was in reality a single process amounting to an action within section 83(1) ; and that , accordingly , the ombudsman had jurisdiction under the scheme set up under the Act to investigate and determine complaints arising out of basic valuations , house buyers ' valuations , and , since there was no relevant distinction in the nature of the contractual relationship , structural surveys by a society 's employee in the same circumstances ( post , pp. 145A–H , 150B — 151A , H — 152A ) . |
| 8 | However , not all languages have a grammatical category of number , and those that do do not necessarily view countability in the same terms . |
| 9 | Since most of the surplus food was from the lowlands with irrigation water originating in the highlands , widespread deforestation in the latter areas had had very serious effects upon the ability of South Korea to feed itself . |
| 10 | Further west , nitrogens in the few crops of Puffin barley so far harvested are said to be on the low side . |
| 11 | This month the Peter Tillou gallery ( which opened at 39 Duke Street in 1989 and exhibited at the Grosvenor House Fair in 1992 ) inaugurates an additional gallery in the former premises of Leggatt Bros. ( 17 Duke Street ) . |
| 12 | Preliminary counts suggested that only about 5% of the L1 posiutive cells in the lamina propria were neutrophils , a finding supported by staining for chloroactate esterase in the same sections . |
| 13 | Plus international driving licences in the same names . |
| 14 | It might have been my colleague Ann — who knew my whereabouts — or even my editor , come to congratulate me on the first pages of Lover at the Gate which I had faxed through from the hotel 's secretariat — or even Sophie , come to apologize , though I hardly imagined she had been promoted from child to lady in the few weeks of my absence . |
| 15 | He used it to explain how different chemical compounds may contain the same elements in the same proportions — ‘ isomerism ’ — because their atoms are differently arranged , and how different substances may have the same crystalline form — ‘ isomorphism ’ — because they have the same number of atoms in the same arrangement . |
| 16 | But a forgery could always claim to be written by Moses in the same terms as an authentic Mosaic document . |
| 17 | However , is he aware that the Royal Navy is proposing to hold a similar exercise in the same waters on the day immediately following that anniversary ? |
| 18 | If such areas were damaged beyond recall in the several millennia from 4000 BC onwards , why were all the areas cleared in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages not so affected ? |
| 19 | The deterioration in my companion 's movements in the few weeks since I had last seen him was distressing to observe . |
| 20 | This increase was not detected in the activity level of urokinase type plasminogen activator in the same carcinomas , which suggests the presence of pro-urokinase type plasminogen activator instead of active urokinase type plasminogen activator of complexes of urokinase type plasminogen activator with plasminogen activators inhibitors in this tissue . |
| 21 | This compares with 36 per cent in the district who correctly identified Edinburgh District Council in the same terms . |
| 22 | Most people still find work in the same towns but in a greater variety of industries . |
| 23 | As we have seen , in England this is very largely concentrated in the further education sector in the former colleges of education ( technical ) and in a number of polytechnics and other colleges . |
| 24 | All the time I am being repeatedly cloned as copies of myself multiply to pursue their separate lives in the many worlds into which my world is continually splitting . |
| 25 | This finding may have clinical importance in the few patients who have pronounced hypergastrinaemia because of profound long acting acid inhibition . |
| 26 | This finding may be of clinical importance in the few patients who have severe hypergastrinaemia as a result of long acting profound acid inhibition . |
| 27 | An extreme instance is provided by Godden and Baddeley ( 1975 , 1980 ) , who found that the ability of divers to recall a list of words learned either under water or on the beach was much better when the test took place in the same conditions as had prevailed during original learning . |
| 28 | However , there was also a steep fall in sterling in the latter months of 1992 , which caused the sterling expression of our predominantly US dollar debt to rise by £2.0 billion . |
| 29 | Such a strategy recognizes both the negative attitudes of local planners to industrial development in the open countryside and also the advantages of concentrating investment in infrastructure in the few locations that have reasonably large labour markets . |
| 30 | And plants exploit the Thames in the few areas where tidal scouring is not too great : the LNHS has recorded wild and garden angelica ( Angelica sylvestris and A. archangetica ) and hemlock water dropwort ( Oenanthe crocata ) at Battersea . |