Example sentences of "[conj] in [pron] [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given these qualities of the PDMs , it is perhaps not surprising that in his 1960 study Fiedler concluded that the most effective work groups were led by psychologically distant managers and not by psychologically close managers . |
| 2 | He reflected that in his twenty year association with the Institution the lifeboat fleet had been adapted to cope with an increasing variety of casualties , from being tailored to serve merchant and fishing vessels it was now dealing with more than an equal number of calls from the holiday maker and the pleasure sailor . |
| 3 | Whereas many developed countries are learning to resolve the contradictions and find new sources of advantage , we found that in our three countries the choices forced on them were not readily perceived as necessarily beneficial . |
| 4 | Returning to the question of reliability of numbers such as these in the absence of audit , the Post Office has addressed this question and in its 1990/91 Report and Accounts , alongside its performance measures ( ‘ quality of service' of the Royal Mail letter service ) is the following : |
| 5 | Its infant post-Communist democracy chose extreme PR , and in its late-1991 elections paid the price . |
| 6 | Polanski arrived in Hollywood from Europe on the back of a spoof horror film called The Fearless Vampire Killers , a parody of the horror genre , which he directed and in which twenty-three gallons of imitation blood were used . |
| 7 | My team , Guizhou Agricultural College , were beaten 24–16 by the Guizhou University in a game which attracted about a hundred spectators and in which ten tries were scored . |
| 8 | I became one of about 30 examiners out on the road , either on my own or with one colleague , and in my two year stint conducted 10 separate enquiries ( often involving more than one company ) . |
| 9 | Joe played in every remaining Southern League match in that 1907–08 season and in our three FA Cup ties — and he was only missing from the Palace defence by reason of injuries during the next seven seasons . |
| 10 | Brian Burke , ALP state Premier from 1983 to 1988 , was singled out by the report for particular criticism for having acted improperly both in dealing with political donations from businesspeople and in his 1987 handling of the rescue of an investment bank run by Connell.The report also criticized Burke 's successor , Peter Dowding , and the last Liberal premier of the state ( in 1982-83 ) , Ray O'Connor . |
| 11 | The methods outlined by Dr Barsamian during his address at an International Cancer Meeting ( held at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics , Freie University , Berlin ) in June 1989 , and in his two articles on the subject published by the American Journal of Biological Physics in 1988 , are hereby presented in a simple yet concise way . |
| 12 | Writers such as Robert Keohane , in his 1984 study After Hegemony , and Stephen Krasner , in his work on international regimes and in his 1978 book Defending the National Interest , argue that a modified version of Realism , or what Krasner calls ‘ structural Realism ’ , can help in explaining international economic issues . |
| 13 | And in his 36 years in the profession , this approach has landed him several of the hottest potatoes going : campaigning for the British Institute proposals from the Scottish side ; merging his firm Thomson McLintock with Peats ; introducing graduate intake only at the Scottish Institute ; working on the Likierman report on professional liability ; and , last but by no means least , heading up the then newly-formed APB at a time when , in the public view , auditing was becoming increasingly discredited . |
| 14 | But in his two lectures he contented himself with a couple of scattered references to " Apolline clarity " and tragedy 's — actually Shakespearean tragedy 's — " Dionysiac " quality . |
| 15 | His keyboard ricercari are early works ( 1567 ) , mostly ‘ instrumental motets ’ , but in his two books of toccatas ( 1598 and 1604 ) he developed further the alternation of quasi-improvisatory and ricercar-like passages and treated the material more plastically so that the two elements cohere instead of being sharply juxtaposed . |
| 16 | As in its 1990 report [ see p. 37630 ] , Amnesty International again accused the United Kingdom government of seriously undermining human rights , especially in Northern Ireland . |
| 17 | In her first school she had been considered outstanding at maths , and had obtained six grade As in her nine O levels . |