Example sentences of "[det] [noun pl] in [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Myers mentions , there are already some programmes in operation which suggest that the national resource base can be manipulated to accommodate the growing needs of the population without serious impairment of soil fertility . |
| 2 | They may have seen some dangers in Methodism which were not in fact there . |
| 3 | In order not to dull your pleasure I intend to only speak for a few minutes in case we all get snowed in/melt away in the heat ! |
| 4 | They 're not oh that sometimes presents a problem but quite honestly er if you 've if you 've still got some contacts in sales we 're you know . |
| 5 | But in some no in some States you get the electric chair and some States in America you 're gassed . |
| 6 | This means that for a few months in summer it is usually possible to sail right round West Spitsbergen ; if the ship is not too large and is able to land passengers from suitable landing craft , this is the best possible way to explore Spitsbergen . |
| 7 | Shetland is one of the few areas in Britain which remains free of feral mink . |
| 8 | Whilst the factual study produced considerable valuable information , there are gaps and some errors in methodology which mean that its conclusions can not be relied on exclusively in an assessment of the present procedure . |
| 9 | She guessed it was pretty obvious that she had nothing to come back with when , his expression grimmer than ever , ‘ We 'll finish this conversation inside , ’ he clipped , and although Fabia would by far have preferred that he simply hand over her car keys and let her go on her way , she realised that there were some responsibilities in life which you just could n't duck . |
| 10 | In some places in Kent he was known as a Borsholder , and was elected by the parish , in most cases reluctantly . |
| 11 | AD 180 , to coincide with the account of an invasion of northern Britain by the historian Cassius Dio ; the wholesale acceptance of this view , though , causes some strains in interpretation which can not be easily reconciled , chief among them being the implication that the damaged forts and other frontier works were left in a state of disrepair for the best part of 25 years , an unbelievable occurrence in Roman military affairs of the period . |
| 12 | In a month 's time we 'll have a quiet wedding in the local church , and after a few days in London we 'll travel through all the countries of Europe . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ After literally a few weeks in Bosnia you became used to death . |
| 14 | Learning of this affront to the Christmas Spirit from the Washington Post , the First Lady rallied her forces , put some bills into her handbag , summoned the Secret Service and sallied forth to Mazza Galleries , one of the few places in town which still allows the Sally Army to function . |
| 15 | ‘ You 're right , Cleg , ’ Hari sipped the hot weak tea , enjoying every mouthful , the Jones family were one of the few families in Greenhill who could afford tea at all . |
| 16 | There have been some new houses built in the last few years , but Ottringham is one of the few villages in Holderness which has not seen large housing developments taking place . |
| 17 | While it is very good at removing metals , dyes and some organics in solution it can not remove nitrite , nitrate , phosphate or ammonia . |
| 18 | There can be few players in history who have clocked up 400 league games at the age of 25 . |
| 19 | There were obviously some men in Hollywood who wanted to make films with sociological relevance and there was obviously an audience for contemporary films as long as they were made according to the normal dramatic conventions and satisfied more general audience expectations . |
| 20 | The trip was a total success , and despite a few hiccups in transit we were able to transport some 5O , OOO items to the main hospital in addition to taking supplies to the towns at Clut-Napoca and Milas . |
| 21 | Erm I mean I should think you want to take some shorts in case it 's warm do you . |
| 22 | ‘ The country is at the moment run by the Conservatives and they have so few votes in Scotland it should bring to their attention that there 's something not quite right in this situation . |
| 23 | With such questions in mind we can now look at the ‘ structuration ’ of each class in turn , starting with the upper class . |
| 24 | Also it is disappointing that despite these improvements in performance we still do not understand properly the physics of thermal insulation and we did not expect that increased density ( up to the limit when particle collisions take over ) would have quite the favourable effect that we have found in many machines . |
| 25 | While it is not necessary to cover all of these activities in detail it is important , if the interest of the audience is to be held , to show some indications of the passage of time . |
| 26 | We could say that having lost these illusions in socialism we have studied economic theories much more thoroughly than Western intellectuals have done . |
| 27 | Before discussing these elements in detail it might be useful to emphasize that the notion of ‘ the demand for money ’ — which may seem a curious concept — can be thought of as a demand to hold money . |
| 28 | But as long as we bear these limitations in mind we can , to some extent , assess the muscle of the political machine . |
| 29 | It might be that it was the incessant closeness to blood , death and suffering that brought out these sentiments in men who had , on the whole , been raised in an education system that rejected such responses as feminine and unmasculine , and that promoted an abstract conception of justice and a stern morality of obedience to rules . |
| 30 | It 's like one of these films in reverse you know . |