Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So the blacksmith plover in the savannahs of East Africa will stand over its eggs , shadowing them with outstretched wings , to allow what wind there is to blow over them ; and in Australia , a jabiru stork will collect water in its beak to spray over the eggs if they get dangerously warm . |
| 2 | Estimates of the value to the individuals , employers and the academics of the PhD work and the PhD award in the careers of scientists and engineers , and of the significance to the economy of research supported by the Council 's Engineering Board , were completed in 1985 . |
| 3 | A policy of Keynesian expansion , for example , whatever its merits , had no chance whatever of gaining majority support in the conditions of August 1931 . |
| 4 | University lecturers in the humanities are making increasing use of computers for teaching purposes ; but this too lies outside my scope . |
| 5 | There are people who feel that it 's great to break the law , and a word of caution , that I feel is important , is that the same group of kids will react against drug programmes in the schools . |
| 6 | One exception to this statement was the attitude taken by the Bavarian Central Authority in the late 1980s in connection with products liability cases in the courts of the United States . |
| 7 | The median serum alkaline phosphatase concentration in the women taking tamoxifen was 60.0 ( interquartile range 53–68 ) U/l compared with 86.5 ( 68–110 ) U/l in the controls ( p<0.005 ) . |
| 8 | The significantly lower median serum alkaline phosphatase concentration in the women treated with tamoxifen is consistent with an oestrogenic effect of the drug since none of the women had demonstrable hepatic or skeletal metastases at the time of bone biopsy . |
| 9 | The FBI is keen to set up a joint task force with Scotland Yard to combat the growing number of insurance , investment and banking frauds in the dependencies which cause a great deal of embarrassment to the British Government . |
| 10 | The country 's six largest construction companies , which together spend between $14 million and $16 million a year on earthquake research , met the extra costs of including base isolation in the structures . |
| 11 | The workers were hard-living and hard-drinking men , who left their cottage homes in the valleys on Monday mornings and did not return until Saturday nights , because their journeys to and from work were hard and hazardous , though short . |
| 12 | In addition , Roman catholic schools in Ireland , in continuity with the belief and practice of Roman catholics in a number of other countries , have a different concept and practice of teaching religion in the schools from that of the majority of protestant traditions . |
| 13 | Frankly , it is not an outstanding record of achievement , considering there has been at least one Second Division club in the semi-finals for 30 of the 47 seasons since the last war . |
| 14 | She was as innocent as the sleeping birds in the trees , or the small field animals in the hedges . |
| 15 | Groups like the Welsh Language Society and the Free Wales Army were said to be training freedom fighters in the mountains and he was barracked everywhere he went . |
| 16 | The Government set up a Public Schools Commission to investigate the Direct Grant Schools : this brought together the sixty Heads of Direct Grant schools in the Headmasters ' Conference in much the same way as the Taunton Commission had led to the creation of the Conference itself in 1869 . |
| 17 | For example , the widespread use of DDT in the 1960s was suspected of affecting the calcium metabolism in the oviducts of birds of prey ( raptors ) . |
| 18 | Greenford , Middlesex-based Cable & Flexible suffered from a building industry in the doldrums , he said , while Seacoast in the US performed below expectations because two large contracts expected in 1992 were deferred to 1993 . |
| 19 | As well as rumours of troops of infantry escorting respectable citizens to afternoon tea in the suburbs , and the recommendation that gentlemen at a loose end because of the shortage of decent game reserves might turn their hand to a new blood-sport — ‘ We have got together a splendid pack this season , and the game is still so plentiful that I 'll bet we 'll show you some really first-rate sport ’ — the ‘ anti-garotte ’ movement launched by Punch invented various kinds of anti-robbery device . |
| 20 | Indeed , many warmed to the food theme , spotting the patio tomato ‘ totem ’ in another container and the pale terracotta bowls of pungent curry plant , variegated sage and thyme as well as fennel , rosemary and silver thyme in the borders . |
| 21 | The centre is run as an integrated research programme within SPRU 's broader research activities in the areas of industrial innovation and energy . |
| 22 | The centre is run as an integrated research programme within SPRU 's broader research activities in the areas of industrial innovation and energy . |
| 23 | This conclusion is supported by the significant correlation observed between birth weight and β cell function in the subjects with validated birthweight data . |
| 24 | Before he qualifies David hopes to be sent on an advocacy course so he can handle matrimonial and crime cases in the Magistrates ' and County Court . |
| 25 | Comte 's hierarchy is more often expressed nowadays in terms of a spectrum running from ‘ hard ’ to ‘ soft ’ sciences ( spectra are less contentious than hierarchies ) , but its influence is still apparent at the undergraduate level , although the picture at the postgraduate and research level in the sciences seems to be becoming ever more complex and many-faceted . |
| 26 | For further details and information on doctoral research programmes in the fields of British and European Social History write to The Secretary , Centre for the Study of Social History , University of Warwick , Coventry , CV AL . |
| 27 | We ran into the warm waves like little children , and swam and did duck dives and looked at the strangely corrugated sand under the water , and kept an eye open for jellyfish and pointed shells and silver fishes in the groves of coral that cropped up here and there along the sea bed . |
| 28 | The hearing was held in a portacabin building in the grounds of Long Kesh Detention Camp . |
| 29 | Teaching is in small groups with students carrying out short research projects in the laboratories of staff members . |
| 30 | The ANC was reported on April 13 to be forming self-defence units in the townships . |