Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Catholic school moral education is a whole school task where pupils are enabled to experience moral values lived in the life of the school . |
| 2 | Mounted on fine horses and riding at a gallop , two abreast , naked to the breech-clout , their faces covered with white , red and yellow paint in fanciful designs , and decked with plumes and feathers and trinkets fluttering in the sunshine . |
| 3 | Five guitar cases sit in the corner of the room , betraying his affection for — and expertise in producing — guitar-orientated groups . |
| 4 | This is reminiscent of the hypothetical primal horde where the tribal father kept the women to himself and allowed the sons to remain in the family on sufferance ’ |
| 5 | The only sound was the sea against the rocks and the hollow call of hungry birds circling in the sky . |
| 6 | Foxgloves form the foreground of my design this month , with sunflowers reaching up to the flocks of birds circling in the sky , above the cottage rooftops . |
| 7 | This involves increasing the number of cases heard in the county courts , thereby maintaining High Court hearings for public law cases , specialist cases and general list cases of importance , complexity and substance . |
| 8 | For reasons given in the text , all figures should be treated carefully . |
| 9 | My Lords , for the reasons given in the speech to be delivered by my noble and learned friend , Lord Slynn of Hadley , which I have had the opportunity of reading in draft and with which I agree , I would dismiss this appeal . |
| 10 | For these reasons and for the reasons given in the judgment of Scott L.J. , I , too , would allow this appeal . |
| 11 | I also agree that for the reasons given in the judgment of Scott L.J . |
| 12 | Only if some people , ‘ because of their special circumstances — because they are crippled or lack talents prized in the market , or for some such reason — end up below the minimum standard of living required to lead a decent , self-fulfilling life at all ’ ( Dworkin , 1978a , pp. 244 , 258 ) would they have a right to ‘ a minimum standard ’ , even at the expense of the general welfare . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , plenty of new flats are being built and coming on to the market : developers have rushed to get their projects completed in the hope of selling before demand dried up . |
| 14 | Three major projects completed in the year were the Exmouth and Salcombe site specific field |
| 15 | For our purposes , however , enough has been said to describe how the institutional setting can cause expenditure patterns of local authorities to deviate in the direction indicated by empirical work of Gramlich . |
| 16 | Moreover , the number of day cases treated in the district has increased by 64 per cent . |
| 17 | To argue , therefore , that changes in newspapers — in their content , style , readership , etc. — may be undesirable ( e.g. ‘ deradicalization ’ , ‘ depoliticization ’ ) is to confuse that which one may desire ( and which may be socially desirable ) with the actual and real choices which individuals and groups make in the market-place . |
| 18 | As records are created online for both existing holdings and new titles received in the Library Periodicals Unit staff will make use of the VTLS Serials control module for recording issues , on receipt , in the online system . |
| 19 | WELFARE groups joined in the condemnation of the Government 's decision to impose value-added tax on fuel bills yesterday by counting the cost in human terms . |
| 20 | A total of 94 riders remain in the race with four stages to go.Two dropped out yesterday , Australian Rob McLachlan submitting to flu and South African Steven Wolhuter being admitted to Shrewsbury Hospital for a check-up though he was released later . |
| 21 | His beard and teeth got in the way . |
| 22 | They contract with hospitals to buy services on behalf of patients and can use any surpluses to invest in the practice . |
| 23 | This feeling was unambiguously expressed by J. H. Muirhead , a Professor of Idealist Philosophy and secretary of the Ethical Society , who , while acknowledging the long history of ‘ class differences ’ , nevertheless warned that ‘ Class conflicts waged in the name of fundamentally different and irreconcilable social and ethical standards are a new thing . ’ |
| 24 | And they are concerned that the media and the public will take the proposals floated in the paper as cast iron and expect the APB to implement them all . |
| 25 | This scale is logarithmic , meaning a change of one unit is actually a ten times change in the acidity or alkalinity , i.e. , pH 6 is ten times more acid than pH 7 and one hundred times more acid than pH 8 . |
| 26 | In any case other activities got in the way of getting to the Sunday services , but I managed the rehearsals and some weekday 5pm services . |
| 27 | The Times hypothesised in the course of the election campaign that it was leaders who lost elections , not challengers who won them . |
| 28 | A molecule of CFC 11 or CFC 12 is 12,000 — 16,000 times more effective as an infrared absorbing gas than carbon dioxide , and CFC molecules remain in the atmosphere for 65–90 years or even longer . |
| 29 | Taking Norfolk as a case study , this project investigates the contribution which local authorities make in the area of job-creation through their provision of industrial premises . |
| 30 | Mathematical and language skills unite in the understanding of logic and reasoning , an essential component of mature intelligence . |