Example sentences of "[noun pl] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He later extended the line in both directions and continued to plot and photograph tree clumps in the surrounding countryside , gradually discovering several more alignments , including a parallel system extending from the Sevenoaks Range to the High Weald in Sussex . |
| 2 | He has one daughter , married to a well-known Politician — Vivian Carolan , who is Minister of Fine Arts in the present government . |
| 3 | Restructured urban space and the visual arts in the modernist city were mirror images of one another . |
| 4 | The latest in a long history of skirmishes in the palaeontological world has blown up into what one particularly bad press release describes as ‘ one of the nastiest personal and professional feuds in all of science ’ . |
| 5 | This research examines the importance of both cultural and racial characteristics in the emerging pattern of second generation settlement , and the implications of the findings for the social advancement of the group . |
| 6 | Yet this image , allowing for exaggeration , is not totally removed from the reality of prewar Japanese society , and the persistence of some of the same characteristics in the post-1945 period therefore means that such categorization still contains a measure of truth . |
| 7 | He of Peter 's Pets in the high street . ’ |
| 8 | The lease contained the usual proviso for forfeiture for non-payment of rent and failure to perform other covenants and concluded with a covenant by the sureties in the normal form . |
| 9 | ‘ So many of the other bands that come over are going to find it hard here because they do n't really sing and they do n't write songs in the traditional sense . ’ |
| 10 | The weeping aloud of the relatives turns to melancholic songs in the local Quechua dialect , Zacarías Ceonocc Huayhua … sings words of grief to his wife whom he has just recognized . ’ |
| 11 | Houses have weird silhouettes in the soft rain , noises come through open windows , television voices , familiar sound tracks . |
| 12 | Oil palm growers in the Malaysian state of Sabah are taking advantage of a loophole in conservation law to threaten the habitat of proboscis monkeys . |
| 13 | His early through pass caught Brazil moving up too late for offside and Kieft broke clear before squaring the ball to Berghuis , one of three new caps in the Dutch team , who lifted his shot high over the bar . |
| 14 | This early phase of plate interaction was probably marked by the development of a volcanic arc off the north Chile coast and was apparently contemporaneous with minor emplacement of granite intrusions in the Eastern Cordillera . |
| 15 | There were a couple of drinkers in the far corner , but no one noticed me . |
| 16 | And always to areas where the ocean floor dropped dramatically ; great fissures in the rocky crust . |
| 17 | At times he feels that the most he can hope for is to identify some fissures in the accumulating mass of proposals in their formative stages into which he can try to insert something of his own political values . |
| 18 | Sinfield believed that they were often irredeemably tainted by ideology , at best to be read only in historical terms , or subject to symptomatic readings , seeking the fractures and fissures in the mystified surface of the text that showed the ‘ true ’ ideological conditions in which it was produced . |
| 19 | James A. Lake , writing in Nature , says that similar bacteria survive in hot volcanic springs or around vents or fissures in the deep ocean floor . |
| 20 | Furthermore , not all patterns and marks seen on aerial photographs represent archaeological sites — crop marks and soil marks can be caused by geological features , such as fissures in the underlying rock which have filled with soil and produce patterns resembling buried sites . |
| 21 | In the field opposite are fissures in the underlying limestone , entrances to long subterranean passages . |
| 22 | Those breeds developed for guarding purposes , such as the Rottweiler , are naturally bold , and less amenable to accepting instructions from people than companion dogs such as the Tibetan Terrier which has been kept for centuries in the domestic environment . |
| 23 | In Cantabria , the barrier they formed ( as the Barrios Quartzite ) played a major role for centuries in the military history of the Iberian Peninsula . |
| 24 | The book by the man who had repudiated Greek wisdom lived on through the centuries in the Greek version made by his grandson — an émigré to Egypt in 132 B.C. |
| 25 | Graeme Fowler and Gatting each scored double centuries in the sweltering heat of the Chepauk Stadium to set up England 's victory in 1985 . |
| 26 | It was a jack snipe , bobbing rhythmically on green legs in the shallow water . |
| 27 | I used the same method of laying the stretchers over the legs in the correct position and marking off the shoulders as in the back rails . |
| 28 | On numerous occasions I have held him by belt and legs in the rattling back of an open truck , from the edge of a storm-tossed boat , in the path of galloping Sumbanese warriors . |
| 29 | Nutty felt very pleased with life , swinging her legs in the clear water as Jazz slipped past on his second length . |
| 30 | He was not the clear favourite for the Oval Office , for there were other men whose achievements were more palpable than George Crowninshield 's , but he looked good , sounded better and no journalist had ever discovered him with his fingers in the till or his legs in the wrong bed . |