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

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1 It 's really incredible that in the circumstances the more serious charge was withdrawn .
2 By summonses dated 16 October , against each plaintiff , the defendants sought a declaration that in the circumstances the English court had no jurisdiction over the defendants in respect of the subject matter of the claim or the relief or remedy sought and an order that the action be dismissed on the grounds that the defendants were domiciled in Scotland for the purposes of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982 and that Schedule 4 to the Act provided that the defendants should , subject to exceptions which were not applicable , be sued in the courts of Scotland .
3 SOME of the longer-serving staff and graduates may remember that in the mid-1970s the University embarked on a major review of its Charter and Statutes , designed to make changes in governance which we thought desirable after ten years of operation .
4 They found that in the hybrids the germ cells apparently migrated into the fetal gonads normally , and their early cell divisions proceeded normally .
5 Professor Dowd found it particularly irritating and inconvenient , as did the railway companies and their customers , that in the mid-1860s the continental United States had no fewer than eighty different standards of time .
6 At the outset I should emphasise that in the proceedings the only question raised is one of law , to be answered on the assumption that the assignments were genuine and valid transactions and that there was no arrangement or understanding that an assignee would hold for the assignor any compensation received by him from the fund .
7 no less than in the Infants the time before ,
8 However , they made little impact until in the mid-1960s the Milk Marketing Board began to notice that many of its top AI dairy bulls seemed to have plenty of Canadian blood in them .
9 The agent might , for example , be at fault if in the circumstances the consent could be taken as sufficient evidence that the agent has power to consent ( i.e. , that there were reasons for holding the consent valid ) and the agent should have realized this .
10 A tan is healthy only as long as you give your skin adequate protection from damaging rays and in the mountains the sun can be particularly strong .
11 Few wars can have achieved so much and , as one MP wrote from Westminster on 4 April 1713 , ‘ In the churches the bells , in the streets the bonfires , and in the windows the illuminations , proclaimed the joy of the people . ’
12 The days were shorter now , and in the mornings the dairy worked by candlelight .
13 The development of Amazonia began in 1960 after the completion of the Belém-Brasilia highway that opened up the eastern part , and in the mid-1960s the government adopted numerous policies that , via tax incentives , were designed to encourage private sector development ( Browder 1988 ) .
14 Campra , whose expressed aim was to combine French musical expression with Italian liveliness , was perhaps copying the acknowledged pioneer of the French cantata , Jean-Baptiste Morin : four of the 12 works in Morin 's first two collections ( 1706,1707 ) introduce only a change of mode from air to air by way of contrast , and in the others the only secondary keys used in principal movements are the relative , IV and V. But as Morin was an otherwise obscure figure it is more likely that Campra was pursuing his own ideals , themselves anchored in Lullian tradition .
15 In the twentieth century the battles have been over quite different issues and in the courts the hitherto ancillary matters of child custody and maintenance have come to the fore .
16 ‘ It is a different land where the sun shines bright and in the deserts the rocks are too hot in the day for eagles to land , ’ he continued .
17 Then came the passage , which appeared on the television news that evening and in the papers the next day , about the Liberal Democrats being the Trojan horse that would let Labour in .
18 More ! ’ and in the wings the sergeant said , ‘ Do you feel like it , Maggie ? ’ and she shook her head , saying , ‘ I could n't , not tonight , Sergeant . ’
19 Crown counsel did not make any offer of the statements and in the circumstances the learned trial judge was entitled to assume that there were no discrepancies or inconsistencies therein and to refuse to order production of the statements .
20 The river breezes fan the town , and in the evenings the tree-lined Corniche is one of the finest promenades in the world .
21 You can find me here any time of the day and in the evenings the family join me to work out and swim . ’
22 For meal times , the pleasant dining-room 's design is particularly spacious and in the kitchens the hotel chefs pride themselves on offering good , typically Italian style cooking at dinner and an ample breakfast each morning .
23 The hedgerows seemed full of flowers , wild roses and deep blue trails of wild pea and in the ditches the lacy umbelliferous wands of cow parsley and meadow.sweet and lady 's mantle .
24 The nave and choir have the usual Gothic ribbed vault but in the aisles the Piast vaulting can be clearly studied .
25 But in the doubles the youngsters were given a chance and grabbed their moment of glory .
26 As far as the conditions of voting were concerned , the 40s. freehold vote was to be retained in the counties , but in the boroughs the vote was everywhere to be offered to the £10 householder , the man who occupied — either as owner or tenant of one landlord buildings of an annual value of £10 .
27 In the Scottish burghs bribery and corruption was a way of life for the civic leaders , and direct bribery was rarely absent , but in the counties the employment of patronage would be much more subtle .
28 In dealing with exemption clauses the UCTA has three possible reactions : the imposition of a total ban on all exemption clauses of that category ; the imposition of a ban on all such clauses unless in the circumstances the clause satisfies the criterion of " reasonableness " ; and no imposition of a ban at all .
29 In rural areas , employment opportunities are almost nil , while in the towns the numbers working in the informal sector have increased markedly .
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