Example sentences of "[noun sg] [n mass] in [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the paperwork had been removed and burnt , but the caravan had been the working place of the squadron — the squadron headquarters in other words — and so against the CO 's most urgent requests and orders the airman turned the tractor round and raced back , grabbing " Jane " and her pants off the caravan wall , thrusting them into the arms of the CO and then retraced his steps in the direction of El Alamein . |
| 2 | Of course , there is a particular problem with death certificate data in developing countries , but there is plenty of other evidence for the epidemic . |
| 3 | This threatens the reliability of both basic population data and attempts to use these new census data in social indicators to identify poverty . |
| 4 | By the end of 1990 the total number of Vietnamese boat people in neighbouring countries had reached 110,000 , of whom 52,000 were in Hong Kong , 20,300 in Indonesia , 14,900 in Malaysia and 14,100 in Thailand . |
| 5 | We would like to hear from people who regularly attend Auction Sales in different areas or who would be prepared to attend and be good enough to send us regular fair and balanced reports of their observations ; conclusions and recommendations with regard to the numbers of and general condition of the animals ; their handling and treatment ; attendance by officials at the Sales ; facilities for the animals , e.g. hay , water , etc. , and more particularly what happens to the rubbish section ? |
| 6 | The weekend will have workshops on Trade and the Bible , Trade and the Individual , Trade and the Media , Worship , the video , ‘ Bitter Sweet ’ , Christian Aid staff in practical sketches and ‘ Climbing the Wall ’ — ideas for fundraising and local activity as well as Traidcraft and exhibitions . |
| 7 | Although not immediately apparent in studies of ‘ variable ’ plant species , it must be expected , in view of the non-uniform disperser fauna in tropical regions , that wide-ranging species will probably be shown to have such patterns . |
| 8 | This fish is similar to M. argenteus in many respects but it is a much deeper fish with more elongated dorsal and anal fins complimenting its extraordinary-deep body . |
| 9 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 10 | Their views may have been coloured by the fact that they found evidence of significant misreporting of publication data in some areas , to the extent that they suggest automatically lowering research ratings as a penalty for discovered deliberate misreporting . |
| 11 | Dr Wolff compared the number of cases of leukaemia and lymphoma with car ownership statistics in 22 countries during the period 1984=88 . |
| 12 | They practically doubled the council staff in 5 years . |
| 13 | The data are gathered mainly by intensive interviewing and observation of systems and management staff in ten organisations from the private and public sectors . |
| 14 | I anticipate that 1993 will continue to see further improvements in new home sales in most parts of North America , but that our business will still face difficulties , along with the rest of the industry in California . |
| 15 | Using chemiluminescence produced by cells and extracts , several investigators have showed the role of reactive oxygen species in different disorders . |
| 16 | The Treasury reaped a record £454,000 in lost deposits from more than 900 candidates who failed to win five per cent of the vote . |
| 17 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 18 | At the entrance to the club we were searched with metal detectors by security staff in sharp suits . |
| 19 | ( In 1961 , for instance , the ‘ leading publisher ’ had more than 50 per cent of evening sales in seven regions . |
| 20 | The new plan , announced in January by Lord James , aims to rely entirely on non-specialist staff in primary schools to teach four European languages ; French , German , Spanish and Italian . |
| 21 | Record sales in foreign territories can take up to two years before they are paid . |
| 22 | to pasture swine in five districts . |
| 23 | In response to the initiative , the IMF was expected to unblock $240,000,000 in further credits [ see also pp. 37040 ; 37244 ; 37451 ] of which Argentina would receive $180,000,000 , with the remainder being deposited into a special account already containing $60,000,000 from a previous IMF loan . |
| 24 | They have bootlegged time ( i.e. used discretionary time on the job ) , found contact people in various sectors of the company , and in general done outlandish things in order to get a hearing for their idea . |
| 25 | Well here 's news for IBM — at the present rate , it will have lost 100% of its mainframe sales in five years , almost all of them not to competing IBM products but to competing companies . |
| 26 | In view of the problem of the masking of environmental heterogeneity , they found that small plots of 40 x 50 m were the most profitable in terms of time and information gained ( even though they recorded only 500 common tree species in 35 families ) , and that for phytomass studies small plots were adequate . |
| 27 | In a similar case of a montane forest , between 56 tree species in several families , this time in Jamaica , there was , again , only slight interspecific temporal separation in the use of animal pollinators and dispersal agents , thus ‘ niche ’ separation in this sense is slight and the coexistence of the 56 species can not be explained in this way . |
| 28 | The New York based CPJ documented 66 deaths and 1,264 attacks on journalists and news media in 100 countries . |
| 29 | All four heads took the unprompted view that there was a desperate need for professional library staff in secondary schools . |
| 30 | Strategic information is generally modest in volume ( only megabits in information-theory terms ) , of the highest importance to the business historian , and is generally well preserved on paper media in corporate archives . |