Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] [art] [noun pl] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The North Sea is obviously so shaped that very strong northerly winds can cause a piling up of water in the southern part of the sea , either because the escape route through the Straits of Dover is narrow , or because it is quite possible for the winds in the North Sea to be predominantly northerly while the winds in the English Channel are predominantly westerly . |
| 2 | A text frequently has a much wider variety of interpretations imposed upon it by analysts studying it at their leisure , than would ever have been possible for the participants in the communicative interaction which gives rise to the ‘ text ’ . |
| 3 | Before you try to make a sale , it 's important to find out as much as possible about the products in your department ( see the next section on ‘ product knowledge ’ ) . |
| 4 | They want to find out as much as possible about the issues in a short time . |
| 5 | And it is doing just that for the ladies in my classes . |
| 6 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 7 | Substitution of numbers for 52 per cent could do this for an words in formulae easy standing charge and number of units ' formula and 17 per cent for an electricity bill ( p.61 ) . |
| 8 | Hughes ' cityscape is as exciting for the children in her books as the bluebell woods and dingle dells of 50 years ago , and this optimism may be the greatest gift a modern writer can give young readers . |
| 9 | Such a juxtaposition of Porter 's and Kaplan 's ideas is useful provided that one is clear about the differences in their aims . |
| 10 | It is therefore important that staff are clear about the circumstances in which physical responses in the form of physical restraint or self-defence are legitimate . |
| 11 | And they are now getting to the point where they are are popular as the folders in terms of |
| 12 | Many officers are despondent about the proposals in the Sheehey report . |
| 13 | The test is a series of movements in walk , trot and canter and you get marked for the movements in the test . |
| 14 | Setting a blistering pace of 91pts on day one , on day two it was 92pts easing off slightly on Sunday it was for them a modest 89pts to give them a grand total of 272pts , 16pts clear of the teams in second and third places on 256pts they were Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , C Burke , V Burke , C McKeone . |
| 15 | About half of the infants in each group were not clinically dehydrated on presentation to hospital ( 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 99 ( 53% ) in group B ) , 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 75 ( 40% ) in group B were mildly dehydrated ( by up to 5% ) , 10 ( 5% ) in group A and 11 ( 6% ) in group B were moderately dehydrated ( 5–10% ) , and only one child in group A and two in group B were dehydrated by 10% or more . |
| 16 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 17 | Over half of the youngsters in residential care in Flanders ( 56 per cent ) are aged between 13 and 18 years . |
| 18 | More than half of the commands in D-11 were the same as those in RPL-11 . |
| 19 | About half of the instances in other jurists seem to be the work of the compilers . |
| 20 | Half of the evacuees in Little Weirwold and the surrounding area had already left . |
| 21 | Women outnumber men in the teaching profession , making up over three-quarters of the teachers in primary schools , and just under half of the teachers in secondary schools . |
| 22 | Less than half of the teachers in secondary schools in Solihull are in any degree familiar with their authority 's booklet for SSE and only one-tenth claim to know it well . |
| 23 | At least half of the shares in BT3 will be offered to the public as part of the Government 's continuing campaign to develop the share-owning habit . |
| 24 | Half of the subjects in each training condition had received presentations of the light during the pre-exposure phase . |
| 25 | Newton and Robinson ( 1982 ) found half of the sixteen-year-olds in four inner London ESN(M) schools to be maladjusted , as rated by the Bristol Social Adjustment Scales , while in South Wales , Chazan ( 1964 ) reported a similar proportion : 50 per cent of the boys , 32 per cent of the girls . |
| 26 | Yet , in a somewhat art-y place like Freud 's which recently displayed the photographic work of Jane Ralley , the solitary wild-eyed scribbler was not too out of place ; but then , judging by the subject of half of the photographs in the show , the owner could count on this crowd to retain its sophisticated bonhomie in the face of far more deliberate provocation . |
| 27 | About half of the pupils in maintained schools take school meals , with the rest bringing their own food or making other arrangements ( mostly going home for lunch ) . |
| 28 | Over one-half of the houses in rural districts of England are owned by their occupiers , whether outright or on a mortgage . |
| 29 | You get the feeling you 've just walked into an alternative universe where L7 , free of the Women In Rock tag , reign supreme . |
| 30 | When I say ‘ this war ’ , I am not thinking only of the current one , but of all our modern wars and our entire modern history from when we became free of the Turks in 1819 . |