Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] in [noun] ' " in BNC.
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| 1 | Headings are selected for inclusion in Sears ' on the basis of common usage . |
| 2 | Despite some evidence of change in teachers ' attitudes and behaviour , they themselves were reluctant to admit that the project had influenced them . |
| 3 | One of the most critical problems for organizations in designing well and competitively is their response or lack of response to change and , more specifically , to rates of change in markets ' technical and economic conditions . |
| 4 | The most important is of course in Tacitus ' excursus on the Jews in the Histories . |
| 5 | The glorification of action in Aeschylus ' Prometheus Bound is the antithesis of Sophocles ' endorsement of saintly passivity , but it rests on the same pessimistic basis . |
| 6 | Indeed recent surveys by the National Foundation for Educational Research have revealed that there is often a great deal of confusion in pupils ' minds , particularly as so many educational programmes for history now employ dramatic reconstruction . |
| 7 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 8 | Our next move was to co-operate with anglers by meeting the National Federation of Anglers and taking a joint initiative to remove the use of lead in anglers ' tackle . |
| 9 | Among particularly serious instances of pollution picked out in the report were the following : , Heavy use of pesticides polluting rivers across the crop growing areas of the Russian republic ; , Untreated industrial effluent from the Volga slowly killing off the marine life of the Caspian Sea ; , High levels of dioxin in mothers ' milk in Moscow ; , The continuing consequences of the Chernobyl nuclear accident , rendering much of the countryside of the Ukraine and Belorussia uncultivatable ; , Waste from aluminium factories in Uzbekistan , poisoning the land for miles around . |
| 10 | Such a code would be concerned with a commonsense size of user party , but it might equally address issues such as litter removal ( incl. bags of salt and empty whisky bottles ) , defaecating against outside walls and the drawing of genitalia in visitors ' books . |
| 11 | They were nurtured by Qaddafi 's rhetoric of individual autonomy ; they survived and became sources of inspiration in Libyans ' conflicts with their state . |
| 12 | FORENSIC scientists are using techniques originally developed to catch arsonists to detect traces of glue in sniffers ' blood . |
| 13 | One might say that in the light of the passage quoted on page 39 there is no endorsement for the neglect of grammar in Wilkins ' proposals either . |
| 14 | Early experience with particular individuals is not the only source of variation in adults ' mating preferences . |
| 15 | When I visited the area in 1981 I was regaled with fishermen 's stories of discoloured fish with scabs and other unusual deformities , of boxes of fish removed from the quayside for testing by the authorities , of radiation in seagulls ' eggs , of friends from the same school who had later died unexpectedly of cancer . |
| 16 | Wickham ( in press ) , in a study of teachers and children in the UK , shows the same problem of the ‘ drop-out ’ of information in teachers ' use of simultaneous communication , Maxwell ( 1983 ) , in a direct attempt to examine the effect of simultaneous communication using MCE on deaf children 's writing , produces the results one might predict from the above and from our preceding discussion of BSL . |
| 17 | Rochester — 2000 years of history in Dickens ' favourite city . |
| 18 | one often finds a simplification , even elimination of social structure in the British sense , and an amplification of structure in Lévi-Strauss ' sense . |
| 19 | In such a mood it is inevitable that the Government 's attempts to bring about change through legislation and increased prescription will be generally felt to be yet another attack on autonomy and yet another indication of a lack of trust in teachers ' judgement and their ability to do a good job . |
| 20 | With the current growth of interest in Briggs ' work , it is intriguing to note that Briggs only ever published one paper on Sanskrit which , at the time , was poorly received and thought to be a cul-de-sac or at best a side road . |
| 21 | Many respondents found the discussion paper 's proposals in this area confusing or illogical , which caused the Board to re-examine it and to propose requiring disclosure only of the total amounts of the respective kinds of interest in shareholders ' funds . |
| 22 | Under the Seadocs procedure , The bill would have been issued by the carrier in the traditional negotiable paper based manner , but would have been taken out of circulation immediately after issuance , and then sent to SeaDocs by courier for safekeeping in Seadocs ' vault . |
| 23 | Included in the exhibition will be a Kakiemon group of wrestlers , until recently used as a door-stop ; a selection of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century jewels found hidden under sawdust in bakers ' trays ; a small seventeenth-century Italian ivory copy of Bernini 's ‘ Apollo and Daphne ’ group and a silver penstand by Phillip Syng who designed the penstand used in the signing of the Declaration of Independence . |
| 24 | There are certain exceptions to the general rule in virtue of the provisions of s.138(1) , namely trafficking in liquor in services ' canteens , theatres erected before January 1 , 1904 , or with passengers on vessels , aircraft , or railway passenger vehicles . |
| 25 | It seems at least possible that such a network of ‘ guardians ’ was still in place in Watkins ' time . |
| 26 | And in fact in Chambers ' Encyclopaedia , they are confidently reported as being extinct . |
| 27 | M0 includes notes and coins held by the public plus cash in banks ' tills plus banks ' operational balances at the Bank of England . |