Example sentences of "[det] [prep] the [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | We know little about the way in which workers ' motivations are affected by the creation of a powerful market test . |
| 2 | And it is doing just that for the ladies in my classes . |
| 3 | If the forms of the two potential functions are similar too , we may well find that the ground-state level for the ion lies almost exactly over that for the molecule in the energy diagram ( Fig. 6.13 ) . |
| 4 | It was agreed that ( i ) a system of proportional representation in the Assembly of the Republic ( legislature ) would be adopted ; ( ii ) legislative and presidential elections would be held simultaneously within one year of the signing of a ceasefire accord , although this deadline could be extended ; ( iii ) presidential candidates would be at least 35 years old and their candidacies supported by a minimum of 10,000 signatures ; ( iv ) the minimum voting age and that for the representatives in the Assembly would be 25 years , although there was an expectation that these would be reduced to 18 years after the first set of elections ; ( v ) a National Electoral Commission , one-third of whose members would be appointed by the MNR , would organize the electoral process , determining for example the number of seats per region ; and ( vi ) the government would assist the MNR to secure appropriate facilities to carry out its political work in at least every provincial capital . |
| 5 | Oh was that for the Renault in ? |
| 6 | Take care not to damage the cables , and protect them with a plastic grommet at the point they will some through the knock-out in the box |
| 7 | There 's another scenario for the house on stilts , one for Jordan 's cottage and still another for the house in Salvation Street . ’ |
| 8 | About half of the infants in each group were not clinically dehydrated on presentation to hospital ( 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 99 ( 53% ) in group B ) , 102 ( 47% ) in group A and 75 ( 40% ) in group B were mildly dehydrated ( by up to 5% ) , 10 ( 5% ) in group A and 11 ( 6% ) in group B were moderately dehydrated ( 5–10% ) , and only one child in group A and two in group B were dehydrated by 10% or more . |
| 9 | For about half of the innovations in the sample , patents delayed imitation by less than a few months . |
| 10 | Nearly threequarters of firewood and about half of the dung in urban India is purchased . |
| 11 | Over half of the youngsters in residential care in Flanders ( 56 per cent ) are aged between 13 and 18 years . |
| 12 | Wattling 's father was in the army , and his mother spent half of the year in Singapore or wherever he happened to be stationed , so his state was even more bereft than Tilney 's , whose parents were divorced but whose father was stationed less than fifty miles away . |
| 13 | Clearly , this has played a role , but The Report of the House of Lords Select Committee on Overseas Trade ( HMSO , 1985 , pp. 238–41 ) concluded that the responsibility for at least half of the increase in unemployment since 1979 is laid directly at the Government 's door . |
| 14 | Professor Keith Cowling and his research team have argued that mergers continue to explain half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 15 | Mergers account for about half of the increase in industrial concentration in the UK . |
| 16 | Wider coverage accounts for well over half of the increase in the proportion of output devoted to welfare provision during the 1960s . |
| 17 | More than half of the commands in D-11 were the same as those in RPL-11 . |
| 18 | About half of the instances in other jurists seem to be the work of the compilers . |
| 19 | Half of the evacuees in Little Weirwold and the surrounding area had already left . |
| 20 | Spread half of the mixture in the base of the prepared tin . |
| 21 | Women outnumber men in the teaching profession , making up over three-quarters of the teachers in primary schools , and just under half of the teachers in secondary schools . |
| 22 | Less than half of the teachers in secondary schools in Solihull are in any degree familiar with their authority 's booklet for SSE and only one-tenth claim to know it well . |
| 23 | The precise interpretation of correlation co-efficients depends upon the size of the data-sets employed , but , as a rule of thumb , a correlation of 0.7 indicates that approximately half of the variation in the set of test scores is attributable to real variations in the attribute being measured . |
| 24 | In other words , perhaps a little more than half of the variation in liability to develop Crohn 's disease is a consequence of inherited differences between individuals . |
| 25 | At least half of the shares in BT3 will be offered to the public as part of the Government 's continuing campaign to develop the share-owning habit . |
| 26 | Half of the subjects in each training condition had received presentations of the light during the pre-exposure phase . |
| 27 | For this reason , it is best to practise a pan before you shoot , starting with the body pre-swung through half of the movement in the opposite direction — rather like winding up a spring . |
| 28 | Half of the people in Europe spoke English with that accent . |
| 29 | In 1981 , six of the 280 LLMAs accounted for over half of the people in Britain that had been born in the New Commonwealth or Pakistan ( NCWP ) . |
| 30 | Half of the noradrenaline in the brain is located in the cells of the locus coerulum , a part of the brain whose neurones affect as many as 100,000 others . |