Example sentences of "in [adj] [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Possibly even in the most traditional area of slave cultivation , sugar , the mechanisation of sugar-mills from the mid-century diminished the need for labour in processing the product , though in booming sugar economies like Cuba it produced a corresponding rise in the demand for field-hands . |
| 2 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 3 | Whatever the rule , the mechanism by which random movements in aggregate demand lead to fluctuations in output is not the same as the one explained in chapter 4 . |
| 4 | Rentokil Tropical Plants make the work environment more pleasant and healthier through the use of attractive indoor plants , many of which have been found to be effective in absorbing air pollutants in the office environment . |
| 5 | Sandinista leaders , headed by Ortega , did not participate in the discussions , but nevertheless welcomed the agreement , which also called for an immediate and unconditional ceasefire and the grouping of the estimated 3,000 contras inside Nicaragua in UN-supervised security zones before being disarmed . |
| 6 | Five injured in loyalist bomb attack on house |
| 7 | The figure also shows that there were important differences in post-redundancy employment status among older workers based on age , or rather , on their proximity to state-pension age . |
| 8 | The two exchangers seem to be coupled indirectly via changes in pH i ; a rise in pH i resulting from stimulation of apical Na + /H + exchange activates apical Cl - /HCO 3 - exchange via its OH - sensitive modifier site , as recently shown in apical membrane vesicles from ileum and colon . |
| 9 | de Waziers et al reported the presence of a small amount of cytochrome P450 3A in normal colon samples with a western blot procedure , and we have found immunohistochemically the presence of a member of the cytochrome P450 3A family in normal colonic epithelium while neither de Waziers nor ourselves detected any cytochrome P450 1A . |
| 10 | Further research is necessary to investigate mechanisms responsible for the low conception rate in normal weight women with an increased waist-hip ratio . |
| 11 | One area of driving research which has produced some serendipitous results bearing on drivers ’ memory in normal situations results from attempts to investigate drivers ’ perception of traffic signs ( e.g. Johansson & Backlund , 1970 ; Johansson & Rumar , 1966 ; Luoma , 1988 , 1991 ; MacDonald & Hoffmann , 1991 ; Milosevic & Gajic , 1986 ) . |
| 12 | MMT Computing Plc reduced its stake in Total Systems Plc to under 3% . |
| 13 | It plans an increase in total woodland cover of 71,000 hectares , of which 60,000 will be planted by the private sector . |
| 14 | For instance , according to the calculations of Prais ( 1976 ) the share in total manufacturing output of the largest 100 manufacturing plants ( i.e. single geographical entities , producing predominantly one product ) has remained fairly static over the last fifty years . |
| 15 | For the decade 1975–84 , the OECD ( Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ) reported for the UK a decrease in total manufacturing output of 4.3 per cent , while virtually all the other major industrial nations increased their output ( though at a lower rate than before 1975 ) — Japan by 61.4 per cent , the USA by 41.6 per cent , Italy by 22.1 per cent , and West Germany by 16.0 per cent . |
| 16 | After 1976 there was a massive decline in manufacturing as a whole with a fall of over a third in total manufacturing jobs in the region between 1976 and 1984 . |
| 17 | Victoria Wine director of marketing Ann Tonks , who reports a drop in nablab sales of 20 per cent over the Christmas period ( compared with growth in total lager sales of four per cent ) , says that people respond strongly to price promotion in the sector . |
| 18 | At the end of the five year systolic hypertension in the elderly trial there was a reduction in total stroke incidence of 6 per 1000 patient years of treatment . |
| 19 | It was just on , on appendix one , was that , was that in total department part of the care in the community in general , or was it hospital discharge , I was n't too clear on that ? |
| 20 | This pattern is related to the growth in total leaf area over the long term . |
| 21 | The acidosis causes hyperkalaemia ( a raised concentration of potassium ions in the blood ) , with a resulting loss in total body potassium via the kidneys . |
| 22 | Tobacco accounts for ‘ little more than 1% of the $50bn ( £28.9bn. ) spent on advertising in the EC in 1990 ’ ( Financial Times , 20.5.91 ) and advertising industry forecasts are for a strong rise in total advertising expenditure throughout the EC , so that the removal of tobacco advertising can be absorbed easily . |
| 23 | Uncertainty over long-term beer consumption patterns ( there was a fall in total beer consumption in the early 1980s ) . |
| 24 | Calculations on the effect of percentage changes in total ozone column on percentage changes in UV-B radiation , using the absorption and scattering properties of ozone and other atmospheric constituents , have indicated an average amplification or magnification factor between 1.5 and 3.0 — depending upon latitude and season . |
| 25 | He put in total League appearances of 38 , 38 , 42 and 42 respectively and was one of only three ever-present players in the team that took Palace into Division I in 1968–69 . |
| 26 | Generally speaking , and in spite of the Great Depression , for the employed inter-war working class , ‘ increased purchasing power led to an increase in total consumer expenditure on commercial leisure forms ’ . |
| 27 | Analysis of variance for improvements in total Leicester score at all visits again demonstrated no significant treatment effect ( p=0.98 , n=114 , 1 degree of freedom ) . |
| 28 | The Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( MWU ) called a 48-hour strike for June 19-20 in protest at what it claimed was a deliberately manufactured deadlock in tripartite wage negotiations between the government , employers and the MWU . |
| 29 | 15 Thus in 1934 Barbara Wootton in Plan or no Plan advocated the advantages of economic planning and central , public management in promoting equality , fairness and a reduction in unemployment , while Douglas Jay in The Socialist Case in 1938 argued that collectivist planning was the only way to achieve a just and fair society . |
| 30 | In 1561 Mary Queen of Scots landed at Leith Shore from France and rested at Lamb 's House , a picturesque vernacular building lovingly restored and now used as an old people 's centre . |