Example sentences of "[conj] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1857 he was promoted to locomotive superintendent of the northern division , covering all routes of the LNWR north of Rugby , at Crewe works where in the following year the first of almost 1,000 of his 0–6–0 type freight locomotives were built .
2 Where in the ordinary course a person gives a statement to the police and later comes to give evidence for the Crown , the defence can not inspect in advance such statement .
3 Hotman 's case is particularly interesting in that where in the first version the word populus was used , in the 1576 edition the term ordines , meaning orders or estates , was inserted to " clarify " the meaning , or , we might suspect , to reassure those alarmed by the dangerously democratic sound of the first version .
4 I do this not only because the issues are easier to grasp in the case of perception than in the case of voluntary movement , but also because neurophysiologists of movement are less prone to wild claims than neurophysiologists of perception : most of the former would admit that we do not yet have the faintest idea how voluntary activity is able to utilize or over-ride reflex pathways ; how we mobilize so-called ‘ motor programmes ’ when we need them ; or even where in the nervous system voluntary movement is initiated .
5 In the universities , where in the sixties rioting students and the educated tele-celebrities of the ‘ chattering classes ’ had commanded public attention , there were now dormant , apolitical students anxious only for their future employment , and embittered lecturers suffering a crisis of morale and lamenting the bureaucratic invasion of time traditionally left for teaching and research .
6 On May 3 the Interior Minister Mohammed Abdel-Halim Moussa announced that 65 " extremists and rioters " had been arrested at Imbabah , that rioting had been quelled at Isna in the Qina governorate — where in the previous week " three extremists " had killed a guard of the state security investigation department — and that he intended " to strengthen the security presence " in various governorates over the following two weeks .
7 Where in the old town education was the province of the church , and even the mercantile ethic assumed a religious form in the Guildhall , in the new one secular and technological structures dominate : gas works and iron works , new town hall and socialist hall of science .
8 The provisions relating to abatement of the action on payment within five clear days of all arrears of rent and costs is not applicable where in the same action the lessor is claiming re-entry or forfeiture on a ground other than , or as well as for non-payment of rent .
9 Where in the past unions used to pursue claims on behalf of employees , the decline in union membership has now often been replaced by an employee-based legal expenses insurance , offering a valuable source not only of work but also of funding .
10 The last stanza of ‘ Exequy ’ is a summing-up of the kind of rituals described by Frazer in Adonis Attis Osiris where in the declining year the representative of the year-spirit was put to death , often by burning .
11 But no blows were struck then , or in the similar crises of 1051 and 1052 , when Edward the Confessor first secured the expulsion and then accepted the return of the powerful Godwin family .
12 You can make connections or deals on the floor , but you know that it 's over that expense-account lunch , or in the private suite , the yacht , that real money is changing hands .
13 In contrast with cholera toxin , vasoactive intestinal polypeptide and prostaglandins are bound reversibly , and act only as long as their levels in plasma or in the intestinal lumen are raised .
14 Interestingly , the root was located either in the eukaryotic branch or in the archaebacterial domain , but never in the eubacterial branch .
15 So she did it in the early morning before the Men came , or in the warm evenings when the Zoo gates were shut .
16 The Corporation will indemnify the Policyholder against loss of or damage to any Caravan described in the Schedule its Equipment and Contents ( other than Personal Effects ) while therein or thereon or in the immediate vicinity thereof .
17 The defendant has to prove that he was not in , or in the immediate vicinity of , a car rather than the prosecution having to prove that he was .
18 If this file had been saved ( in plain text format ) as " predir " , you could initiate printer output redirection by issuing the command from the filter ( ) , or in the immediate mode from within BBCBASIC(Z80) .
19 There are two schools of thought about whether or not the information should be presented chronologically ( which gives a picture of the person 's career development ) or in the reverse order , where the emphasis is on current work and achievement .
20 You have pain either in the lower abdomen ( bladder area ) or in the lower back
21 Erm whilst I 've not been able to produce an audited er set of accounts I do have er a set of figures for you erm and as you said at the the beginning of your opening er speech Mr Chairman that erm we had one or two losses during the year , those er in actual fact did n't erm affect us in thi this particular financial year as they were aimed at the September December period , but therefore they will be reflected in next year 's figures not or in the current year 's figures or the next annual general meeting 's figures .
22 If you are a reasonably good rider and can get experienced help , you may enjoy bringing on a just broken four-year old — though youngsters with potential ( whether obvious or in the current owner 's imagination ) can carry big price tags .
23 The ways in which the various tools are used are described here or in the various chapters throughout the book — cutting and bending pipe , for example , in Chapter 2 ; the correct way to use an immersion heater spanner in Chapter 4 .
24 ‘ Mode ’ may be reflected in either a course title ( philosophy of , critical theory , foundations of ) or in the subtle detail of teaching and learning which may assume or encourage a ‘ normal ’ or ‘ reflexive ’ process .
25 For example , agricultural production might be organised on the basis of the master-slave relationship , as in Ancient Rome or in the southern states of the USA , or based on the lord serf relationship , as in feudal Europe , or on the capitalist-proletarian relationship , as in modern Western societies .
26 Whether in slices or in the intact brain , LTP turned out to have a similar range of properties .
27 In 1920 the unemployment insurance scheme was extended to cover all workers except those on the land , in domestic service or in the civil service .
28 ‘ We were stunned five years ago to find the use of the whip was banned after the last fence or hurdle , or in the final furlong of a flat race , ’ he said .
29 But there are other lessons to be drawn from what the war makes visible — in the image of a desert war bogged down in muddy trenches worthy of the Somme in the wettest Saudi winter in memory or in the prophetic footage of cormorants drowning in the worst oil disaster yet recorded .
30 Many of the old village families still work in the area , in agriculture , or in the thriving haulage industry .
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